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I find this point, from National Review, interesting:

Apparently, though the city owned hundreds of buses, it failed to use them to move its most vulnerable citizens — vulnerable either because of poverty or physical infirmity — out of the bowl-shaped city to safe higher ground. Initially it seemed as if the city that knew the levees protecting it would one day break just didn't have a plan to move so many people to safety. But it turns out that emergency-preparedness officials in New Orleans did have a plan, and they did think to use buses to evacuate the city before a major hurricane. They just decided not to fully implement it as Plan A. The plan was developed as a hurricane Georges lesson learned. This appeared in an article that appeared in November 2004 in the Natural Hazards Observer:

Residents who did not have personal transportation were unable to evacuate even if they wanted to. Approximately 120,000 residents (51,000 housing units x 2.4 persons/unit) do not have cars. A proposal made after the evacuation for Hurricane Georges to use public transit buses to assist in their evacuation out of the city was not implemented for Ivan. If Ivan had struck New Orleans directly it is estimated that 40-60,000 residents of the area would have perished.


So the question after dodging the Georges bullet seemed to be, "Do we figure out a way to use buses or do we allow 50,000 people to die for the crime of not having a car?" They chose Plan B.

Hurricanes come in cycles of frequency and activity. Meteorologists don't really know why, other than that it might have something to do with solar activity and shifting deep sea currents (but responsible scientists do know the hurricane cycle has nothing to do with humans burning fossil fuels). We are currently at the cusp of an intensification of hurricanes. We can expect more of them, and we can expect more of them to be strong.

As the hurricane cycle kept building in the last decade or so, there were increasing calls to create a real evacuation plan. Many of those who pleaded for the use of buses will come forward soon, but for everyone who does, there are others who do not have the strength to come forward. They can't hack their way out of their attics right now to tell us their side of it. And the journalists at the New Orleans Times-Picayune are no longer interested in speaking on their behalf. As their "Open Letter to the President" shows, they're now the spokesmen for other political interests. It didn't used to be that way until the inevitable happened. Now they have circled the wagons to protect the guilty and accuse the innocent.


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I find it tough to give merit to any article that views scientists who recognize the Greenhouse Effect as irresponsible.

Still, there's no denying that there was a breakdown at not only the federal level, but at the state level as well. Both are to blame for this continuing fuckup.

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My sister's father in law said he has been to Orleans, and that outside of the French Quarter much of it is a dump, with 30% unemployment.




You're sister's father-in-law is not a very perceptive man. The Quarter was a dump as well. I'm no geological or meteorlogical expert, but even I knew New Orleans was on the cusp of being washed away. It floods with a heavy rain. And it smells like pee.

Everyone is to blame in politics. City, state, and federal officials ignored what could have happened for decades. Citizens of New Orleans ignored the evacuation warnings. Many got out, but plenty stayed despite what they knew would happen. Everything got fucked up. No one did what they should have done, and we paid a big price for that mistake.


whomod said: I generally don't like it when people decide to play by the rules against people who don't play by the rules.
It tends to put you immediately at a disadvantage and IMO is a sign of true weakness.
This is true both in politics and on the internet."

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At the same time i think it should be noted the city was hit by A FUCKING CATEGORY 4 HURRICANE. and perhaps man has learned the lessonthat was learned in pompei and throughout history, when nature is fierce it matters not how advanced your society is, you arew fucked.

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At the same time i think it should be noted the city was hit by A FUCKING CATEGORY 4 HURRICANE. and perhaps man has learned the lessonthat was learned in pompei and throughout history, when nature is fierce it matters not how advanced your society is, you arew fucked.




No doubt. Not only was it a Cat. 4 (almost a 5), but a Cat. 4 that was more dangerous and damaging than a Cat. 5. The tidal surges for Katrina were about 15 to 20 feet higher than Camile, which was a Cat. 5 with winds over 200 miles per hour. Katrina did so much damage because it moved slowly and didn't loose intensity like many forecasters said it would.

The reason I didn't leave Hattiesburg, which is about 100 miles inland, is because we've faired very well against hurricanes in the past and because meteorologists were predicting that the storm was getting ready to speed up (as in how fast it moves across land, not wind speed) and that landfall would severly weaken it. Instead, it kept it's intensity and slowed down it's rate of movement. Meaning it stayed longer to do more damage. Plus, it hit us with 120 mile an hour sustained winds and gusts around 150. People from the Gulf Coast and New Orleans went to family, friends, and even shelters in Hattiesburg because they thought they would be safe there. No one was ready for the storm we got. Buildings on the coast that survived Camile were devestated by Katrina. The only thing that can be blamed is man's inability to conceive what can happen to him at nature's hands.


whomod said: I generally don't like it when people decide to play by the rules against people who don't play by the rules.
It tends to put you immediately at a disadvantage and IMO is a sign of true weakness.
This is true both in politics and on the internet."

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Bush-Bashing Backfires Again. A CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll of 609 adults taken September 5-6 shows:

    Blame Game — 13% said George W. Bush is “most responsible for the problems in New Orleans after the hurricane”; 18% said “federal agencies”; 25% said “state and local officials”; 38% said “no one is to blame”; 6% had no opinion. — 29% said that “top officials in the federal agencies responsible for handling emergencies should be fired”; 63% said they should not; 8% had no opinion.

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I think the same poll also said...

Forty-two percent of respondents characterized President Bush's response to the disaster as "bad" or "terrible,"
http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/09/07/katrina.poll/index.html

but it's tough to tell since essentially you have a link from a blog that is apparently linking to a Drudge story about the CNN poll. You might want to explain where you get the Bush-bashing backfires part.


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I think the same poll also said...

Forty-two percent of respondents characterized President Bush's response to the disaster as "bad" or "terrible,"
http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/09/07/katrina.poll/index.html

but it's tough to tell since essentially you have a link from a blog that is apparently linking to a Drudge story about the CNN poll. You might want to explain where you get the Bush-bashing backfires part.



if the approval is above zero, then g-man sees it as support for the president.


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From today's Wall St. Journal:

    The primary responsibility for dealing with emergencies does not belong to the federal government. It belongs to local and state officials who are charged by law with the management of the crucial first response to disasters. First response should be carried out by local and state emergency personnel under the supervision of the state governor and his emergency operations center.

    Mayor Nagin was responsible for giving the order for mandatory evacuation and supervising the actual evacuation: His Office of Emergency Preparedness (not the federal government) must coordinate with the state on elements of evacuation and assist in directing the transportation of evacuees to staging areas. Mayor Nagin had to be encouraged by the governor to contact the National Hurricane Center before he finally, belatedly, issued the order for mandatory evacuation. And sadly, it apparently took a personal call from the president to urge the governor to order the mandatory evacuation.

    The federal government does not have the authority to intervene in a state emergency without the request of a governor. President Bush declared an emergency prior to Katrina hitting New Orleans, so the only action needed for federal assistance was for Gov. Blanco to request the specific type of assistance she needed. She failed to send a timely request for specific aid.

    In addition, unlike the governors of New York, Oklahoma and California in past disasters, Gov. Blanco failed to take charge of the situation and ensure that the state emergency operation facility was in constant contact with Mayor Nagin and FEMA. It is likely that thousands of people died because of the failure of Gov. Blanco to implement the state plan, which mentions the possible need to evacuate up to one million people. The plan clearly gives the governor the authority for declaring an emergency, sending in state resources to the disaster area and requesting necessary federal assistance.

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Has anybody blamed the people covering up the Roswell crash yet. If not I think it's time we threw on our tin foil hats and looked into that.

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I think the same poll also said...

Forty-two percent of respondents characterized President Bush's response to the disaster as "bad" or "terrible,"
http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/09/07/katrina.poll/index.html

but it's tough to tell since essentially you have a link from a blog that is apparently linking to a Drudge story about the CNN poll. You might want to explain where you get the Bush-bashing backfires part.



if the approval is above zero, then g-man sees it as support for the president.




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You should blame Halle Berry while your at it 'cause she controls weather, and she's black.


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Uh, blacks don't control the weather, sensitive piggie, that's jews.


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Gov. Blanco requested aid 3 days before Katrina made landfall, so is the Wall Street Journal opinion pages saying that she needed to be more specific in asking for help?!?

Some of the spin coming from the White House seems to contradict previous statements. Like for example....
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According to an August 26 White House statement, FEMA was authorized "to identify, mobilize, and provide at its discretion, equipment and resources necessary to alleviate the impacts of the emergency."




I guess it's ok to start playing the blame game as long as it's at the local level huh? While I'm sure the Gov made mistakes, she isn't in charge of Fema.


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Uh, blacks don't control the weather, sensitive piggie, that's jews.




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Back in 2004, three Lousiana state officials were charged "with offenses related to the obstruction of an audit of the use of federal funds for flood mitigation activities throughout Louisiana."

    The indictment alleges that during an audit of the program being conducted by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security-Office of Inspector General, a State Military Department employee realized that $175,000 in expenditures of federal monies was improper in that the money was not used for purposes authorized by the federal program and would therefore have to be re-paid to the federal government. This employee notified APPE, who in turn directed the employee to provide false documents to the federal auditors.


So the federal government was sending them money and they were misappropriating it.

But the flood is Bush's fault.


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Great piece on Assigning Blame.

    WASHINGTON — In less enlightened times, there was no catastrophe independent of human agency. When the plague or some other natural disaster struck, witches were burned, Jews were massacred and all felt better (except the witches and Jews).

    A few centuries later, our progressive thinkers have progressed not an inch. No fall of a sparrow on this planet is not attributed to sin and human perfidy. The three current favorites are: (1) global warming, (2) the war in Iraq and (3) tax cuts. Katrina hits and the unholy trinity is immediately invoked to damn sinner-in-chief George W. Bush.

    This kind of stupidity merits no attention whatsoever, but I’ll give it a paragraph. There is no relationship between global warming and the frequency and intensity of Atlantic hurricanes. Period. The problem with the evacuation of New Orleans is not that National Guardsmen in Iraq could not get to New Orleans, but that National Guardsmen in Louisiana did not get to New Orleans. As for the Bush tax cuts, administration budget requests for New Orleans flood control during the five Bush years exceed that of the five preceding Clinton years. The notion that the allegedly missing revenues would have been spent wisely by Congress, targeted precisely to the levees of New Orleans, and reconstruction would have been completed in time, is a threefold fallacy. The argument ends when you realize that, as The Washington Post notes, “the levees that failed were already completed projects."

    Let’s be clear. The author of this calamity was, first and foremost, Nature (or if you prefer, Nature’s God).

Read the whole thing.

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Great piece on Assigning Blame.

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Read the whole thing.




Iraq war soldiers now doing Hurricane Katrina duty
Reuters

Iraq hurt Katrina response, general says

Pentagon says it can handle both the disaster and Iraq war
BAY ST. LOUIS, Mississippi (AP) -- The deployment of thousands of National Guard troops from Mississippi and Louisiana in Iraq when Hurricane Katrina struck hindered those states' initial storm response, military and civilian officials said Friday. CNN

Where does the buck stop?


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