I agree with you. Lots of "why didn'ts" are going to need to be answered. Watching this on TV, streaming video, and reading posts here is infecting my psyche.
On that note many of the questions in my mind have simply stayed there for now, but I've done and written a number of emergency plans for chemical plants, hazardous waste facilities, and even nuclear D & D projects. The main question to me is: What were the city's plan to deal with a levee break? That question, properly answered could have saved thousands of lives. A whole city living below sea level surrounded by dikes and levee's, with no plan (grossly inadequete) of what to do in the event of a levee failure is criminal.
They are showing people and city personnel on TV clearly stating they have/had no idea what to do. My schools actually teach and drill for the severe weather that could potentially strike our area. I just can't fathom NO had no such teaching for a city in a bowl. Something went terribly wrong and it is going to cost people, innocents, their very lives.
There was talk when the tsunami hit that stranded people only had a few days to live, we're going to start to see more people die. At this point why are they not using loud speakers from the helo's telling neighborhoods where to go for rescue? A parish by parish plan with troops securing the evac. routes. Food and water drops at the staging areas and snipers shot on sight.
I am sorry, but I am frustrated beyond comprehension.
Loud speakers and or bullhorns...I asked the question Tuesday...
One more thing. The whole city of NO is not under sea level, but large chunks of it is because of decisions made in th 30s.
If they hadn't drained the wetlands, the disaster wouldn't have been so bad.
Land hunger won out over smarts.
Sorry, I must disagree. You may have done "disaster preparedness plans", but you didn't ever have to deal with having NO reliable communications or transportation over a HUNDRED THOUSAND SQUARE MILES. NO ONE has. People are talking about N.O., but that is not the only affected area.
Please look at jeffers' post#106 from a few days ago to get a feel for the magnitude of this problem.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1474387/posts?page=106#106
Everyone seems to be doing pretty much as well as can be expected given the total devastation of infrastructure in this disaster area. I only wish they had declared it was a "shoot to kill criminals" area earlier on, and enforced it ruthlessly.