Re: OT: followup on New Orleans - disgraceful



keith wrote: 
On Sat, 03 Sep 2005 14:03:53 +0000, Fred Bloggs wrote:



keith ( the me me me man) wrote:

On Sat, 03 Sep 2005 01:50:45 +0000, Michael A. Terrell wrote:



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!




Why didn't the mayor save the school busses by driving them a bit
up-river?  ...full of people, of course.

Another example of poor planning. The emergency was called so late that it would have been impossible to mobilize all those drivers who were probably very busy taking care of themselves and their families.

You see where one intelligent simulation expert, three months, and 10K$, would have contoured all these contingencies and more.


Agreed, but those busses would have been useful, even if fully qualified
drivers couldn't be found. The other thing that surprised me while
watching the people leave. The traffic on the Interstate(?) was jammed
one direction, while the other side was virually empty. During the FL
evacuations they've halted southbound traffic and reversed the lanes, doubling the number of lanes available. Makes sense to me!


Well they went beyond that- because the state authorities knew that historically most NO residents evacuate west into Texas, they were actually encouraging people to head east on Rt 10- which as we know now put them in an even worse disaster area, Mississippi.

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