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National Hurricane Director had to call Nagin at home Saturday night to plead: "Get people out..."
Knight Ridder Newspapers ^ | Sun, Aug. 28, 2005 | BY MARC CAPUTO, DAVID OVALLE AND ERIKA BOLSTAD

Posted on 09/03/2005 12:14:14 PM PDT by joinedafterattack

MAYOR CRITICIZED EVEN BEFORE LEVY BREAK. National Hurricane Center Director had to call Nagin at home Saturday night to plead: "Get people out of New Orleans." "The criticisms of Nagin came from above as well. Numerous officials urged him to evacuate the city, but he worried about the legality of ordering people out when New Orleans has few safe hurricane shelters. Also, National Hurricane Center Director Max Mayfield in Miami called Nagin at home Saturday night and told him: Get people out of New Orleans.

''I could never sleep if I felt like I didn't do everything that I could to impress upon people the gravity of the situation,'' Mayfield said. ``New Orleans is never going to be the same.''

When a grim Nagin issued the mandatory evacuation order Sunday, he said: ``We are facing a storm that most of us have feared . . . God bless us.''

(Excerpt) Read more at philly.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; US: Louisiana
KEYWORDS: blanco; cary; democratswrongagain; disasterprep; evacuation; hurricane; incompetence; incompetent; itsspelledlevee; katrina; katrinafailures; maxmayfield; mayor; nagin; neworleans
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To: PeoplesRepublicOfWashington

LEADER

LOSER

Fools elect Idiots

181 posted on 09/03/2005 4:01:50 PM PDT by FatherofFive (Choose life!)
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To: Motherbear

You know what? Just hot wire the buses, and steal them, steal them all. If I hear one more deflective legalism, I think I will go postal. Without luck each and every one not on one of those buses not used out, would have been dead, DEAD. When that happens, you throw the statutes into dust pin. I hope I have made that clear. God created waste baskets for a reason.


182 posted on 09/03/2005 4:02:18 PM PDT by Torie
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To: Echo Talon
Question for my education:

Hearing all about the fleet of busses, turned submarines by the flooding: were the interstates jammed with evacuees up until the 175 mph winds hit? If yes, this would leave little room for a fleet of busses to make their departure. On the other hand, if the interstate traffic petered down to a few stragglers prior to the full brunt of the storm, its all the more damning for the mayor.

183 posted on 09/03/2005 4:02:50 PM PDT by C210N (Today is a gift, that's why it is called the present)
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To: Dont_Tread_On_Me_888

Roger that, DTOM888!!!


184 posted on 09/03/2005 4:03:07 PM PDT by CDB ("Something there is that doesn't love a wall"--Robert Frost - NOT Jamie Gorelick)
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To: Dont_Tread_On_Me_888
It is very important we get the stories like this out,..

very, very important.

The RATs will try to overpower us,

And try, and try, and try.

We must not let the RATs use this argument.

Exactly, they're going to try to do to #43 what they did to #41 over Hurricane Andrew. And that helped give us Clinton. The hurricane is over but the PR war has just begun.

185 posted on 09/03/2005 4:03:33 PM PDT by elbucko
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To: C210N
Question for my education:

Hearing all about the fleet of busses, turned submarines by the flooding: were the interstates jammed with evacuees up until the 175 mph winds hit? If yes, this would leave little room for a fleet of busses to make their departure. On the other hand, if the interstate traffic petered down to a few stragglers prior to the full brunt of the storm, its all the more damning for the mayor.

Well for your education it is "buses" and President Bush told him to start the evacuation well before the hurricane hit land.

186 posted on 09/03/2005 4:06:02 PM PDT by Echo Talon (http://echotalon.blogspot.com)
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To: Echo Talon
I don't care you can use ANY of my the stuff I make.

Wow... I need some coffee...

187 posted on 09/03/2005 4:07:58 PM PDT by Echo Talon (http://echotalon.blogspot.com)
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To: joinedafterattack

ping-a-ling for later


188 posted on 09/03/2005 4:08:33 PM PDT by kinsman redeemer (the real enemy seeks to devour what is good)
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To: uncbob
I'll never call them the "mainstream media" ever again.

From now on, I'm referring to those bozos as the LAMESTREAM MEDIA.
189 posted on 09/03/2005 4:09:11 PM PDT by CDB ("Something there is that doesn't love a wall"--Robert Frost - NOT Jamie Gorelick)
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To: Echo Talon

Thanks! Done. I love it.


190 posted on 09/03/2005 4:09:27 PM PDT by MarMema
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To: Torie
LOL, I don't mean any disrespect and this is a terrible thing but please look at how the national disaster response organization is organized. Once the area was declared a disaster area Bush (FEMA) could only respond to requests from State and Local. It wasn't until it was clear that these Bozo's couldn't handle anything that FEMA is having to take control. They are apparently having to construct an entire ER network from the ground up. It's a wonder anything is even in place now. Get a grip, they are trying to replace a system that should have already been in place for years.
191 posted on 09/03/2005 4:09:31 PM PDT by WHBates
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To: Echo Talon; Howlin; Peach
Also maybe you or some others will enjoy this.

Katrina

192 posted on 09/03/2005 4:11:17 PM PDT by MarMema
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To: joinedafterattack
I guess Nagin "doesn't care about black people". I am so unbelievably sick of the Bush bashing by the Monday morning quarterbacks.
193 posted on 09/03/2005 4:12:02 PM PDT by lara (Kanye West is an overrated idiot)
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To: joinedafterattack

People who are registered at the Philly.com site need to keep complete copies of this article on their hard drives.... this is just the sort of article that the MSM would love to make 'disappear' since it does not fit their Bush-bashing agenda. Also, can folks email the complete text to various receptive new commentators, etc.?


194 posted on 09/03/2005 4:12:32 PM PDT by Enchante
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To: exhaustedmomma

That's why I think we need to take someone with us if an evacuation called for again. Put granny in the Walmarts buggy and vamos.


195 posted on 09/03/2005 4:12:41 PM PDT by CindyDawg
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To: joinedafterattack

bump


196 posted on 09/03/2005 4:13:16 PM PDT by RippleFire ("It's a joke, son!")
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To: MarMema

:D thanks.


197 posted on 09/03/2005 4:14:37 PM PDT by Echo Talon (http://echotalon.blogspot.com)
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To: Smelly_Fed

Unbelievable! How incompetent he has proved himself to be.


198 posted on 09/03/2005 4:16:48 PM PDT by mlc9852
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To: Smelly_Fed

Unbelievable! How incompetent he has proved himself to be.


199 posted on 09/03/2005 4:16:49 PM PDT by mlc9852
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To: joinedafterattack

More of this news needs to come out to beat back the slanderous "big lie" being promoted by the enraged-at-being-out-of-power, racist Democrats.


200 posted on 09/03/2005 4:16:49 PM PDT by Mad_Tom_Rackham (Beware the Socialist-Islamist alignment.)
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