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)
THAT says it all about this turd of a mayor. If I see much more Bush bashing I'm about to riot and create mayhem in my own hood.
Thanks G Man, I knew someone would know where to find it.
Admin Guy, can you update the link in this thread? I didn't have a good one for background prior to posting.
Do you honestly think there is another school bus parking lot in the country under that amount of water? The remainder of the Gulf states that were hit d/n have extensive flooding but had horrific storm surge which retreats quickly and huge amounts of wind damage.
This picture's worth a MILLION words ... Great find !!!(I'm sending it all over)
Now we need to find similar shots of fleets of municipal buses sitting around, I'll bet they had plenty of those, too, that could have been used on Sat-Sun.
Exactly. The NO officials had to be watching the monster Cat 5 all over TV. The weather experts were warning about this very scenario occurring. They had 48 hours to get people out. They didn't even make an effort to help people with no transportation.
Soylent green should be made outta Nagin and Blanco, then the rest of the morons responsible for this.
At this point, I am sure the stranded and abandoned would be happy to eat their elected "officials".
To be fair, when President Bush declared an emergency on Saturday, Katrina was still a Category 3 storm. Nagin had to roll the dice. In hindsight he made the wrong call. By Sunday it was too late for any mass bussing effort.
This would have ment all day Friday, all day Saturday and all day Sunday, to evac and it was to little, to late. That much is clear.
The time to evac is when the roads exist.
The time to evac is when food, water, and energy are in place.
The time to evac is when a Cat 5 exists. This wasn't done, and more people could and should have been evacuated out at this very moment . . .
I was in the scumhole of N'awlins early last year. The streets were filled with garbage and filth, including putrid human waste, piles in the gutter and still walking on the street. I ate in a 'supposed' fine cajun restaurant in the french quarter. In the restroom a heroin cooking spoon and syringe were on top of the commode. I left the city disgusted by the filth. I thought if God needed to give this country an enema, that is where he should stick the nozzle. When the hurricane first hit I was ashamed of my thoughts, but with the deterioration of their 'civilization' I withdrawn my shame.
Help whomever you can to leave, but inspect everything they have with them. Nobody leaves with ill gotten goods! Then, after removing all possible valuables and personal possessions and dealing with the vermin who rule the rubble, level the scumhole. Pour garbage and dirt over it until its above sea level, then lay sewer system so the putrid place can drain. Build Newer Orleans on the rubble.
Who's to blame? I think there is a perfect storm of ineptitude here. New Orleans is something that should have been dealt with a long time ago. Yes, this administration hedged it's bets by gambling that this wouldn't happen when they cut the Levee budget, and yes, city officials KNEW that there were 125,000 people in New Orleans who have NO TRANSPORTATION. How do you order a mandatory evacuation and not give the people with no transportation, who you know exist because of your own municipal data? Somewhere in file cabinets from here to Washington are the computer models and worst case scenarios describing the very things we are seeing today. NO was a crime filled sewer BEFORE the hurricane (I was mugged there myself in '91)--more blame can go to the notoriously corrupt government and law enforcement, The state officials were completely overwhelmed and without a clue, FEMA and Homeland Security couldn't find their asses with both hands. Everyone involved needs to stand up and take some responsibilty.
A Perfect Storm of things that went wrong.
The sad thing is that even if every bus was lined up in neighborhoods throughout NO, many, many people still would have insisted on staying to weather the storm in their own residences.
And the MSM would be showing their plight instead of showing the smarter folks being safe and sound, albeit just as homeless, just as it is doing now.
Good, blame a hurricane and corrupt/incompetent city government on President Bush, just shows how totally clueless, dishonest and self serving they all are.
I counted about 310 busses in that picture alone. Call it 300 even. Assuming each bus can carry 30 people, that is 9,000 people that could have been evacuated assuming only one one-way trip per bus.
Every city has emergency plans. They are different in each city. New Orleans officials clearly had the responsiblity to plan for evacuation in case of an event such as this. They knew that a significant number of people didn't have resources and vehicles. Every one of them should have been aware of a pickup point within a distance that was walkable where buses would take them to safety and where they would be given vouchers for food and a place to stay. The place to stay could have been in a park with restroom facilities.
as to the mayor, "it takes a village idiot!"
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