Re: New Orleans Evacuation Plan
all have valid points. here we know if you stay expect no help from any local, state or federals for at least 72 hours after the winds go below 45MPH.we also suspend the sale of alcoholic beverages at the declaration of evacuation.many had thought as the storm trailed off the bullet had been dodged, no one thought about checking the levee, not that anything could have been done. they do the same storm preps all over I think. always the equipment seems to be in a flood zone or a zone that is inacesssible after the incident. the crazy town fathers here tried to move the fire station from the village side which has never flooded to the beach side that will flood with a good nor'easter. talk about crazy. it is like when the yankee comes in pretty weather and buys a beach house then complains when the first nor'easter wipes the pilings out from under it. or the yankee on vacation that says on CNN or the weather channel cameras that they are staying cause its their first hurricane. then, if they survive, they complain about sleeping in a tree and everything is washed away and no one came to help. <br /> however for decades various corps of engineers studies have shown this would happen. in fact most were fearful of it on the night of the 27th.more on the 28th and by early on the 29th most knew they would not hold. the lake was topping the levee with flood waters due from the north. now bush has been on TV saying this was Unfiorseeable when his own homeland/fema team warned him of it several years ago and again on the 27th. let the backpedaling begen
. where is lance armstrong when ya really need some pointers on backpeddaling?<br />
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Mandatory_Evacuation_declared_in_New_Orleans <br /> this is from the day prior to landfall. also the day Bush and Nagin both declared a disaster area and Brown, head of FEMA stated they would be in as soon as the storm passed.<br /> same as the busses. if Nagin or anyone had designatted any joe butro off the street as a driver the liability and responsibility for all refugees would have been on the officials. same reason the cops cuff you before stuffing you. its cause they have the responsibility for your safety as well as theirs once your under their control. no one knows if any attempot to find qualified buss drivers was made. takes more than the ability to reach the pedals to drive a bus authorized by the city or feds or any other civil branch. heck it takes a license to drive a forklift any more. but I still find it rather unexcusable that that many empty busses are sitting in a flooded parking lot. but thats the nice thing about this one, everthing everyone said and did in the days prior and preceeding monday aug 29th is well archived and documented. lets see where which truth leads.
