Re: OT: followup on New Orleans - disgraceful

On Sat, 03 Sep 2005 15:04:36 +0000, Fred Bloggs wrote:

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> keith wrote:
>> On Sat, 03 Sep 2005 14:03:53 +0000, Fred Bloggs wrote:
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>>>keith ( the me me me man) wrote:
>>>
>>>>On Sat, 03 Sep 2005 01:50:45 +0000, Michael A. Terrell wrote:
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>>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>>> 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.

Amazing. I would have thought the further NW one could get the better.
The stonger winds are on the E and NE side of a hurricane. I think I'd be
trying to get to Texas too!

--
Keith

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