Scott, of course many people couldn't get out on their own, or afford to accumulate a week's worth of food and water, never mind haul those supplies to a shelter. This is obvious now, and it was obvious decades ago. The status of New Orleans' geography, and the state of their floodwall system has also been known for decades.
People needed rides out of town, and shelters needed more than a couple of days of supplies. The idiotic meme that needs to be beaten to death is that somehow Washington DC is or should be in charge of making this happen. Louisiana and New Orleans had many, many years to work this all out.
I could go into details about where the Federal funding went for New Orleans disaster planning, or the Federal funding to the local Corps of Engineers, hospital generators in basements, or a number of other things that showed that the problem was not being taken seriously at the local level.
FEMA should send buses? From where? Is there a FEMA bus parking lot located within a few hours drive from everywhere a disaster is likely to happen? Commandeer commercial buses? A governor can't do that?
More of the Federal government as God. People can't even think along any other lines any more except Washington when a problem comes up.
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I think the main point is being missed.
The whole thread (84 posts)
- This was reply to something on flame, but rightly belongs here
- re: This was reply to something on flame, but rightly belongs here
- One thing you said, in all of that glop, was meaningful
- You missed the main point and dodged others
- Which was easy, because there was no main point, nor any others
- Not Federal Troops
- Gosh, Don't make me pull a Brosz on you. ;-)
- re: my point
- Talk about bullshit
- Try not skimming next time.
- Talk about bullshit
- Which was easy, because there was no main point, nor any others
- You missed the main point and dodged others
- One thing you said, in all of that glop, was meaningful
- Where is chicken little when we need her?
- So what if he lied. So what if Bush lied. What's the difference?
- Context
- Agreed, start to finish
- go ahead, blame Bush.
- For non-response by an agency administered by the Executive branch of which he is the head? Sure!
- go ahead, blame Bush.
- Levee failure
- This is silly
- what preparation would have prevented the levy failure?
- se above (n/t)
- re: This is sillier
- for every thread, spin,spin,spin
- Lets assume everyone knew the levy was going to fail 60-70 hours before Katrina.
- Thats sort of the point- they *should* have known the levees were going to fail 36-48 hours out, and ended up doing nothing
- Lets assume everyone knew the levy was going to fail 60-70 hours before Katrina.
- for every thread, spin,spin,spin
- what preparation would have prevented the levy failure?
- This is silly
- Oh, the original lead into that, the context that its missing was:
- re: This was reply to something on flame, but rightly belongs here