Posted on 09/02/2005 2:22:21 PM PDT by joinedafterattack
The most important story I've seen all day.
Don't expect the MSM and the Democrats saying much about it. It's all Bush fault.
In Pensacola during the last year we have learned some very hard lessons. One of those facts is that unless you leave at least three days before the storm hits you have a very good chance of being stuck on he highway, The gas stations don't carry enough gas for mass evacuations.If those buses had been caught out on the highway during the storm the occupants would have been in grave peril.
There is no excuse for FEMA's failure to airdrop food and water into New Orleans. The administration is criminally negligent for their failures.
The only bright spot the Federal Governments response to the disaster is in the Department of Transportation. By Wednesday they were convoying huge concrete bridge beams toward New Orleans. They were able to find the materials and organize the convoys within two days but FEMA couldn't even manage to ask the Army to airdrop food and water.
That is criminal negligence.
You win! CNN has reposted the linked story saying "New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin declared a state of emergency Sunday and ordered a mandatory evacuation of the city."
http://www.cnn.com/2005/WEATHER/08/28/hurricane.katrina/?section=cnn_topstories
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No real plan or attempt to evacuate the poor or anyone else.
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Why would a city that no longer exists need an incompetent Mayor?
He should do everyone a favor and just disappear.
Great find.
FREEPERS ROCK!!!!
From the link lapsus calami provided in #104:
"Nagin said late Saturday that he's having his legal staff look into whether he can order a mandatory evacuation of the city, a step he's been hesitant to do because of potential liability on the part of the city for closing hotels and other businesses"
Drives me crazy every time I see the buses under water but...
They would have complained they were not air-conditioned just like the woman complaining she didn't have a hot meal in the Superdome. In the dark!
Nagin is in big trouble himself. I think that's why he's ranting about everyone else letting him down.
Bush: Move to 'Safe Ground'
Nagin exempted hotels from the evacuation order because airlines have already canceled all flights.
Gov. Blanco said President George W. Bush called and personally appealed for a mandatory evacuation for the low-lying city, which is prone to flooding.
Speaking Sunday, Bush said that he "cannot stress enough the dangers this hurricane poses to Gulf Coast communities."
"I urge all citizens to put their own safety and the safety of their families first by moving to safe ground," he said.
WDSU meteorologist Dan Thomas said the dangers from the hurricane cannot be overstated.
"I've told some people in the newsroom, I think this is going to be the scariest moment of your life," he said.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/083005Q.shtml (bottom of page)
It was Sunday. You can go back in the Katrina threads and see everyone who was posting about this mayor and governor getting people killed because of their inaction.
Definitely impossible if you don't try. But that's not the point. Can you get all out who couldn't on their own? No, but you could get some. What is it with this all or none mindset?
The problem wasn't with "governors" it was with THE LA Governor and THE N.O. Mayor.
I didn't get to see it, but I hope he reamed both of them a new one. They killed many of their own citizens. He's taking the heat for it. They'll be lucky if an ass chewing is all they get. At the very least, they deserve to be driven from public office as political lepers.
Bump for a Bush "I told you so"
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