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)
Every shot I saw of the interstates out of NO showed northbound traffic only in the northbound lanes.
Good point!
Next time, the inbound busses should be mobilized before the Gov. declares one way out traffic.
But as Louie Prima sings - "Next time, there ain't no next time"!
placemarker...
WHOOPS! How un-PC I am!! Should have said "saltines"! (or dry, square, salted pieces of cardboard!) I'll try to watch it from now on!:)
There are at least 120 busses in that photo. That's enough for a single run of bout 3,600 people. And if the good mayor had ordered the evacuation 12 hours earlier, those busses could have made at least three, if not four, runs. That's a good chunk of people. But I do agree with some of the president's detractors (and I read this somewhere else - wish I would have come up with it on my own). The President should have known the Mayor and the Governor were stupid. He should have anticipated that.
"Looks like there are 200+ buses sitting uselessly in the flood waters."
If those are standard 55pax school buses, and only 200 of them, they'd have been able to move about 11,000 people out of the city. If they had people laying or sitting in the aisles, they could have moved a few more per bus. Who needs a toilet if waiting for it means your life? As for the lack of a sauna someone else mentioned, all they have to do is ride with the windows up, and they'll have their sauna, too.
Someone else said there were at least 300+, plus municipal and charter buses if they had gotten their act together. At least they could have gotten a lot of the "most vulnerable" out in time....
"Someone else said there were at least 300+, plus municipal and charter buses if they had gotten their act together. At least they could have gotten a lot of the "most vulnerable" out in time...."
If they'd started at the 72 hour point, and made multiple runs, they'd have done better than 11,000, too. 7-P's time. Proper Prior Planning Prevents P**s Poor Performance. If I were Nagin, I'd be moving to someplace in Africa, where no-one had ever heard of me.
I know and love my president, George W. Bush, but who the hell is Nagin?!
(What Hurricane Katrina exposed was the psychological consequences of the welfare state. What we consider "normal" behavior in an emergency is behavior that is normal for people who have values and take the responsibility to pursue and protect them.)
"There were many decent, innocent people trapped in New Orleans when the deluge hit--but they were trapped alongside large numbers of people from two groups: criminals--and wards of the welfare state, people selected, over decades, for their lack of initiative and self-induced helplessness. The welfare wards were a mass of sheep--on whom the incompetent administration of New Orleans unleashed a pack of wolves.
All of this is related, incidentally, to the apparent incompetence of the city government, which failed to plan for a total evacuation of the city, despite the knowledge that this might be necessary. But in a city corrupted by the welfare state, the job of city officials is to ensure the flow of handouts to welfare recipients and patronage to political supporters--not to ensure a lawful, orderly evacuation in case of emergency." ~ Source: TIA Daily -- September 2, 2005
Drudge has it up now.
Thanks for the info ... I was asking the question because I didn't know the answer.
"I wonder when Nagin's family left."
It was reported on one of the news networks that they left by plane on Friday or Saturday. Can't remember which. I know it was not as late as Sunday.
Now, like a spoil brat, he throws a fit. And with Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, the Congressional Black Caucus lining up to play the race card and RFK Jr (and others) playing the global warming card, he'll have plenty of cover as long as he tows the Democrat line of attack.
I hadn't thought of that but in light of the looting and armed violence, you may be onto something. What a cesspool. Once metaphorically, now a reality.
How? Why?
I don't know and that's why I asked the question. If it is once or twice a year I can understand why the inhabitants might become complacent. If it is once every ten years or so then I don't understand their apparent complacency. Here where I live in western Pennsylvania we get flood warnings every time it rains. You can only 'cry wolf' so many times. I'm wondering if this is what happened in this case.
The global warming card won't get much traction.
I probably misunderstood where you were coming from. Sorry if I sounded harsh. Below is a link to a post that chronologically charts the course of the hurricane. Chart
Some New Orleans residents evacuated when Ivan (Cat 4) looked like it was headed their way. More good info in the article HERE.
This was written before the storm hit......especially read the last two paragraphs:
http://www.wwltv.com/local/stories/WWL091404nowheretogo.119ed4228.html
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