Posted on 09/24/2005 1:13:44 PM PDT by Graybeard58
Yes I watched the traffic jams on TV until our power went off last night. I also talked to people who turned around after going 10 miles in 8 hours. Other people I know unpacked their cars and went back inside, having never left the driveway. What I meant by my other post was that there was nothing unusual going on and the traffic was horrible.
Sorry to disappoint, but they called in the military to do it. Did you eat crab cakes for lunch?
It was on the news, they used c-130 planes and it showed them using the baggage cars to carry stretchers. Nursing homes were evacuated, etc by bus or whatever other means they needed.
If true it looks like the Democratic Mayor of Houston did a great thing.
Winter is coming, smug and pontificating, self aggrandizing, New England & NYC liberal types may get their comeuppance. A bad winter with many feet of snow and bitter cold could give them a real jolt of reality. If so, I for one have my answer ready for them and theirs; I could care less, where were your plans, why didn't you implement them, in short, go pound sand jerk offs.
It sure looked to me that they did a better job in Houston than the people responsible for the New Orleans evacuation. Houston is a much larger city than New Orleans and should have had many more problems with evacuation because of that.
Some people are reluctant to praise the effort of Houston officials for fear that the democrat Mayor might get some of the credit for it. So what if he does? Rake him for some of his failed policies. I am not at all familiar with Houston city government but if it is like democrat run government everywhere else in the country it is riddled with failed policy.
He did. I am surrounded by government democrats in this state, and I hope that they could learn from such a botched LA attempt. Though, we don't get hurricanes, we do get lots of floods.
On-ramp metering is more important than opening the reverse direction lanes. The capacity of a freeway is a function of the average vehicle speed. It's better to keep cars queued on side streets rather than turning the freeway capacity into a 1 mph virtual parking lot. They could have evacuated 100 times faster with one metering traffic cop posted at every on-ramp.
Are you saying the 2,000 drowned buses could have been used to evacuate the poor of NO if mayor Noggin Head had utilized that time to make a few return trips?
Perry also ordered 1,750 Army and Air National Guard personnel to position themselves as Joint Task Force Rita between Austin and San Antonio, a Guard spokesman said. The task force members are experts in medical and rescue operations, transportation, supply distribution, security and road clearing missions. Among their equipment will be 11 military helicopters and four C-130 transport planes.In addition, the Texas Air National Guard will begin flying Katrina evacuees from vulnerable shelters in Houston to Fort Chaffee, Ark., and a site in Tennessee, a FEMA official said.
Two Thousand Buses?
Where did you get that number?
I see...you are saying the media is trying to invent a story again? I agree with you...
I expect that you're semi-serious but London's first "tube" was pneumatic and worked just fine. It has long since gone to electric trains but the name remains.
Funny, I thought the same thing when I read the post. Not vacuum, more like "mag-lev" but underground, why not?
Regards,
GtG
That's conjecture isn't it? Since it didn't happen. A successful evacuation takes place before a hurricane hits, not after.
Nagin let school busses sit idly by while demanding Grayhound busses from the feds. That's a complete failure of leadership.
"I said the same thing last night on one of the hurricane threads and was called an idiot by several people."
Well, I have been saying it since Wednesday, and no one has called me an idiot yet. So feel flattered. People *listen* to you. They apparently do not listen to me.
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