Re: OT: followup on New Orleans - disgraceful

Fred Bloggs wrote:
>
> You're on the right track there, over here it would be called
> establishing a network of evacuation plan community activists. But this
> needs to be started well in advance of the hurricane season. The Super
> Dome was a good idea up to a point, you would not want to truck people
> 300 miles away unless it was absolutely necessary, so the idea of nearby
> safe areas with prepositioned food and other supplies with emergency
> power backup would work best. Only when the unthinkable happens do you
> transport them long distance. I hesitate to suggest just exactly when
> this plan goes into effect- since participation is NOT optional-
> depending upon storm behavior by way of a firm track, this should be put
> in motion when the 3-day NHC forecast puts them at greater risk than x%
> for potentially damaging storm surge and executed no later than 24 hours
> prior to estimated time of arrival. Usually when human life is involved,
> people hesitate to compute that "x", so what has occurred in the past is
> to make "x" somewhat equal to some other background probability of
> catastrophe of low frequency and over which we have absolutely no
> control. Any suggestions?


I had two hurricanes pass over my home last year. I am tired of the
whining about how slow things are moving. Things were not as bad as New
Orleans, and very little could be done the first few days. They were
spent cutting downed trees and trying to repair the major power
transmission lines. It was three weeks before the lights flickered back
to life, then died again a few hours later. Another week passed before
they came on again. There was no ice or bottled water for almost a
week, but the people here had the brains to stockpile a week's worth of
non perishable food and water.

I am tired of people lick the Mayor of New Orleans and Jesse jackson
trying to play the race card. Everyone in the affected area had time to
prepare to either leave town or to gather some food and water. It
doesn't take a lot for a week, at survival levels. The problem is the
party attitude, and that they have had so may near misses that they
refused to take anything serious about the coming disaster.

Jesse Jackson was running his big mouth that there was no planning.
Where was his fleet of chartered buses? Where are his thousands of
tractor trailer loads of food, ice, water and medicine? Oh, yeah, he
never does anything except bitch about what others don't do.

As far as the mayor, why didn't he make the evacuation mandatory?
Why didn't he fill warehouses full of food and water? Why didn't he
tell FEMA that he was using their convention center to house refugees so
they could bring in supplies? Oh, yeah. They claim that it wouldn't
matter because they were black and no one would listen!

IOW, its another case of passing the buck and shirking
responsibility, as usual.

The electric utilities, phone companies, and all other utilities
should just tell people that they WILL NEVER PROVIDE SERVICE to the
flooded area. Not for any reason, ever again. There should be no
federal money to rebuild on the current site, and insurance companies
should not have to pay out if someone insists on staying. If someone
insists on rebuilding there will be no businesses to provide jobs, no
grocery or convenience stores for supplies allowed to rebuild in the now
flooded area. The levee facing the gulf should be torn down and a new
city built on higher and drier land where this can never happen again.

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Link to my "Computers for disabled Veterans" project website deleted
after threats were telephoned to my church.

Michael A. Terrell
Central Florida
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