> All sarcasm aside...The area was fore-warned SEVERAL days
> before it happened. There was a lot of warning and many who
> could have gotten out and didn't.
There were a lot of people who couldn't. NO's Emergency ops plan took that into account....but the mayor didn't execute.
Then after it happened,
> there was no way anyone (ANYONE) could have reacted
> instantly to the scope of the devastation. How long did it
> take to even come to grips with all the different aspects of
> problems that would come up?
FEMA can. That's their job, and they told us time and time again they're up to it. They spend hours and millions modeling this and thinking of anything that could go wrong. But I'm not sure that's the problem. Once they GOT there, they are doing a pretty good job. It was the lack of intelligent pre-staging and miles of red tape and politcis that is the problem. They are also supposed to be flexible enough to react instantly to the unanticipated problems.
Can you tell me that you
> honestly think there was anyway anybody could have not
> overlooked something?
> Did you expect the people to begin shooting AT the people
> trying to rescue them?
> Would you have expected a large portion of your police and
> emergency workers to walk off the job?
Absoultely yes. Those scenarios have been played out. Lawlessness always has been and always will be part of this. In the absence of law, there are a few who will try to create anarchy. That is well documented. I have long been an advocate of immediately standing down emergency workers who are personally affected by an incident so they could go check on thier families. If FEMA had the Guard and other law enforcment staged properly that would have been possible.
>
> Bottom line...no President, no mayor, no EMS, no Red
> Cross----NOBODY could have all the answers. It's Lord of the
> Flies down there, and it doesn't make any Fu@#in difference
> WHO was in any of these positions, it is the way it was
> always going to be.
No, that's not true. FEMA has the brains and resources to do this. They were hanged with red tape.
>
> So...instead of bitchin' about who should have done
> what-when...why don't people like us support those who ARE
> there, trying to do something instead of using an
> inappropriate forum like this to air our petty political
> differences?
Agreed. But there's not anyone here not supporting those on the ground.
>
> The government's response was too slow. I agree and I
> understand. The response would have been NO QUICKER if
> Hillary Clinton or Ronald Reagan were President.
I don't agree. Bush just created another level of government between the first responders and decision making. FEMA shouldn't be part of DHS. Clinton's FEMA director James Lee Witt knew his stuff, and his FEMA would have done much better. The current FEMA head has no disaster training whatsoever (?????)
> Deal with the sorrow and the pain and just hope for the
> best.
>
> Besides...this happened in God's world. Are we going to hear
> calls for calls for HIS impeachment, too?
No man knows His reasons. And we've had several thousand years of warning in that respect.
>
> While we're at it, we need to impeach the people that
> designed the city of New Orleans in the first place. That
> was a pretty poor location for a heavily populated city.
>
> This is called a tragedy. No one wanted it. No one expected
> it to be this bad.
> How dare anyone (including me) to say we know how it should
> have been handled by whom and when what should have been
> done.
>
> If you're so smart...carry your @SS down there and fix it!
Waiting on official orders....FEMA / TEMA / MSCEMA has screwed that up as well.
> I'll buy your gas and let you take one of my vehicles!
>
> May God Bless those in need as a result of this horrible
> tragedy, and may God also bless those who are really doing
> things to actually help.
>
> -Paul Hankins.(Now,...THAT'S my real name)
>
Amen.
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