Do you remember the weather report before the thing hit, and all of the NO local mayor and emergency management director said that this whole thing was "alarmist?"
That's why they put the people in the Superdome and told them to bring their own food and water. And what is amazing is that it was the poor who voted for these people...and this is the treatment they get? To be caged up like animals in a place that is certainly going to be demolished with little or no provisions?
They could have bussed people to Baton Rouge, could've been a bit more inventive. But no. And now the political backpeddling begins. Blame George Bush, Denny Hastert...whoever. Now there is anarchy complete with rapes, thievery, murders...this is unbelievable. "Alarmist," my eye. Katrina was a category 5 headed for an area that KNEW that it couldn't withstand a 3...what's alarmist about that?
I remember it well. Blanco said "bring peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and pray"
Which is why they ignored anything & everything President Bush told them to do regarding evacuations?
Bright move that. /sarc
Exactly. Granted, a lot of times, hurricanes miss and veer off course at the last minute. This makes people overconfident. All it needs is one bad strike and you're gone.
In the case of NO, a city below sea level, there's no margin of error. But the city and state government just sort of shrugged and carried on as if it were all just a bad dream, probably provoked by GWB.
That's what I've been saying--just heard Aaron Brown saying that "even if they could have known the devastation there weren't enough buses to get them out". BS--there were enough--they should have had a plan to mobilze them IMMEDIATELY. Now--they are blaming Bush for not finishing repairs on the levee. John Breaux just disputed that claim. CNN is so biased--but I can't handle H&C and Greta--and can't stop watching this whole drama unfold!