Posted on 09/02/2005 7:37:54 AM PDT by An.American.Expatriate
Edited on 09/02/2005 7:51:53 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Maybe Mayor Nagin would like to explain this picture before he and the rest of his democratic fellow travelers continue to blast the fed's.
An aerial view of flooded school buses in a lot, Thursday, Sept. 1, 2005, in New Orleans, LA. The flood is a result of Hurricane Katrina that passed through the area last Monday.(AP Photo/Phil Coale)
True. I'd forgotten that. I was a little girl then.
Guess it's just since I was old enough to be aware.
I just heard a radio report replayed on the tv, didn't catch the damn station, Nagin CUSSING 'Bush'.
From today's New York Times:
'Brian Wolshon, an engineering professor at Louisiana State University who served as a consultant on the state's evacuation plan, said little attention was paid to moving out New Orleans's "low-mobility" population - the elderly, the infirm and the poor without cars or other means of fleeing the city, about 100,000 people.
At disaster planning meetings, he said, "the answer was often silence."'
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"It would have been up to local officials, a FEMA spokeswoman said, to hire buses to move people without transportation out of the city."
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'But Susan Cutter, a geography professor at the University of South Carolina and an emergency preparedness expert, said Mayor Nagin should have ordered a mandatory evacuation on Thursday or Friday.
"Evacuation is a precaution," she said. "I don't think they would have taken a political hit if they had ordered it, and it helped."'
Lucianne Goldberg at Lucianne.com will run this photo on their web page this weekend.
Nagin yelling, "Now get of your asses (bleeped) and help with the biggest bleeping disaster in history."
Wow. Never thought of that.
Good job!
"Where are the mass transit buses?"
Mass transit buses are capable of highway travel. In June I was with a group from my church that took a regular city bus to an event way out into the country. I couldn't get over how strange it felt to be sitting on an ordinary city bus that usually travels at about 40 KPH or less zooming down the highway at 80-100 KPH. So where indeed did NO public transit go?
Dang straight! But you'd rebuild the city underwater? Scum would just float again. Raze it, increase the elevation upon its waste, make a smaller more modern and efficient city.
My heart goes out to all those who've lost everything, yet that same heart is twisted by the breakdown in civilization from affected groups.
The buses were not under water until after the storm. They were available, yet NOT used for evacuation purposes. Shameful!
That is what I woke up to this a.m. He makes me sick.
bookmark and bttt
Now why'd you have to post that and piss me off more?
Guess that's the excerpt I just heard on tv.
What a scrote.
The chief of the Louisiana State Police said he heard of numerous instances of New Orleans police officers -- many of whom from flooded areas -- turning in their badges.
"They indicated that they had lost everything and didn't feel that it was worth them going back to take fire from looters and losing their lives," Col. Henry Whitehorn said.
Tourist Debbie Durso of Washington, Mich., said she asked a police officer for assistance and his response was, "'Go to hell -- it's every man for himself.'"
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/sns-ap-hurricane-katrina,0,4527135.story?page=2&coll=chi-newsbreaking750-hed
Think about what is to become of that "scum" as you put it. Coming to a city near you? Of course, a city near you already has a number of them, but there hasn't been a disaster (aka looting opportunity) to bring them out of the woodwork into the full light of the day--and teevee cameras.
Meanwhile the many decent and good people of New Orleans deserve to have their city rebuilt, just as they rebuild half of the east coast after their yearly hurricane season, and the west coast, after their yearly wild fires and mudslides.
The Democrats in Lousiania botched this thing and now they and their detestable buddies in the media are trying to scapegoat Bush for this--unbelievable.
I can't hardly listen to him. He can't prepare his city in an appropriate manner for a Category 5 hurricane and wants the President to grant him executive powers to command the military? OMG!
And the mayor and gov. insists on blaming President Bush.
????
You don't give a damned about reality? Would you prefer some magical Hollywood solution?
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