Posted on 09/08/2005 12:18:56 PM PDT by BurbankKarl
Even so, he said relief crews delivered seven trailers filled with water and ready-to-eat meals to the Superdome before the storm hit on Aug. 29, along with another seven trailers on Aug. 30.
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See my #3 on this thread. The more I hear, the more I think the feds reacted beautifully. Better than I would have expected, actually.
You know what- I think you're absolutely correct. Given the unspeakable incompetence of the mayor and governor- I think the feds are looking pretty good...
I'm dead serious. I'm sitting here trying to think what the feds did wrong.
I know we were upset with the looting and shooting at relief workers, but we now know that Blanco was late off the plate getting the NG in there and didn't want our regular duty military in there.
So relief workers, including FEMA, had to withdraw until the situation was under control.
About 26,000 New Orleans residents sought refuge from Hurricane Katrina at the Superdome, which authorities describe as the "shelter of last resort," Lt. Gov. Mitch Landrieu said late Sunday. To help keep them fed and hydrated, the Louisiana National Guard delivered three truckloads of water and seven truckloads of MREs — short for "meals ready to eat." That's enough to supply 15,000 people for three days, according to Col. Jay Mayeaux, deputy director of the Department of Homeland Security's Office of Emergency Preparedness. Outside the New Orleans area, the Louisiana Red Cross has opened 45 emergency shelters that were serving about 3,000 evacuees as of late Sunday, said Victor Howell, who heads the Red Cross of the Louisiana Capital Area.
Hi, Jane. I've missed seeing you; you're one of our best researchers.
Nice catch!
I pray that GWB and Karl Rove have a big, fat folder on all this stuff and a well-thought out plan for the appropriate way to release it. The administration must know it is disheartening to a broad swath of the American public to not only have to deal with the disaster itself but the shrill complaints and accusations of those largely responsible for this mess.
I recall one lady complaining about the food (MREs) at the superdome. "I haven't had a hot meal in 3 days", talked about how she ate the crackers and other stuff cold from the packages. The reporter asked "What DID you have" the lady said "water, water, water".
And I believe it was a reporter that reminded me a few days later of the complaints of cold food being hollow as MREs heat themselves up!! (Do ALL MREs have this capability now?!)
I used to think, during the 2004 election cycle, that the president was just keeping his powder dry and would unload on Kerry and inform a mostly uninformed electorate just what a liar Kerry is.
It would have been easy to do. Freepers were doing it.
But the president doesn't seem to play the game that way. Personally, I think the truth can be told without resorting to ugly politics. I know the president wants to change the tone in Washington, and he's changed his tone. But neither the media nor the career Democrats have changed their tone. In fact, it's gotten worse.
And it's frustrating as Republicans to know what we think should be done to defend the president, which is generally just telling the truth vs. the media spin, and not see anything done. Makes me want to scream.
These people live in a dream world.
Ted "the Swimmer" Kennedy missed a chance to redeem his sorry butt - he coulda been down in New Orleans diving and saving folks like he did (tried to do) with Mary Jo!
Still, thanks to the irresponsible and lying media, most Americans believe that 25,000 people sat in that place for four days with NO food and NO water.
Ted "the Swimmer" Kennedy missed a chance to redeem his sorry butt - he coulda been down in New Orleans diving and saving folks like he did (tried to do) with Mary Jo!
Outstanding find! Send it to Rush ....
How could Geraldo miss seven trucks?!
not at the super dome, they always had food there. the convention center was a different story, but they took some food there at the cafeteria, and then food was brought into the convention center by FEMA before the evac took place, the pictures of that were on the live threads.
I don't think there is going to be any evidence of deaths by starvation or dehydration at the superdome or convention center. perhaps some frail or elderly deaths may be "attibuted" to that, but I just don't see any terry schiavo style starvation or dehydration deaths at the superdome or convention center.
That really is, in a nutshell, what the left is saying.
I agree, they did nothing wrong. what people in amongst the media/Dems/some freepers wanted out of this was to federalize the whole effort sooner, as if FEMA and Bush should have known in advance that Blanco wasn't going to do anything, and therefore move 24 hours earlier then they did to federalize it. that's really the time period that the argument boils down to - 24 hours faster.
and as many of us have been saying for a week - if Bush had done that, the left would have gone berserk that it was "pre-emptive", racist, etc. its a no win situation.
"People just looked at him," Mr. Thompson said. "He was the first speaker, and it sort of went downhill after that. People felt we are not going to get the truth here."
Translation - "We didn't hear what we wanted to hear so we'll blame them anyway."
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