On May 20, 10:44=A0am, EMBALMER <Embal...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> drydem wrote:
> > I hope the China does a better job of handling this disaster
> > than we handled the USA Katrina Hurricane disaster. (9_9)
>
> That was easy. =A0Since the city, county and state governments f*cked
up,
> all they had to do was yell at the top of their lungs, "Where are the
> Feds? =A0WHERE ARE THE FEDS," until everyone believed it was the Feds'
> fault. =A0Other disasters both natural and civil engineering f*ck ups
> occur in the U.S. yearly. =A0Only in Lousyana did the local officials
> succeed in ****fting blame from themselves to the Feds/FEMA/Bush, because
> no other sane locality ever did that kind of sh*t.
Corp of Army Engineers got some of the heat
because the contractors that they used to make
the New Orleans levees had failed to
secure the foundations properly - causing the
the levees to fail prematurely. However, the
given the strength and speed of the hurricane
- this would have only bought some extra time.
One of the problem was that there was no federal
or local plan to help evacuate those who
no place to evacuate to ( no money to travel
or relative to visit), had no means of
trans****ation to evacuate with ( no car or
truck to escape with), or were physically
incapable of evacuating without assistance
(physically or mentally handicapped and
poor),
Another problem was that many insurance companies
refused to pay for claims to damages caused by the
flooding that the hurricane brought. So even if a
home owner had flood insurance - the insurance companies
refused to paid on the hurricane damage claims.
>
> Before all the yelling and screaming and blaming took place, the
> Lousyana governor in a recorded interview were all praises and gratitude
> for the first Feds to arrive to do their work for them. =A0Then the
> Democratic national leader****p took over the publicity stunts and the
> rest is how-to-do-it history.
It wasn't the Lousiana governor but the Republican President of the
United States of America George Bush, who was best remembered
for praising the federal response to Katrina Hurricane. The
Democratic
Party national leader****p however did started to criticize the Federal
relief effort after a few days. The rest that follow was
a What-went-wrong-and-why-nothing-got-done history.
>
> When a disaster strikes anywhere else in the U.S., locals help
> themselves and each other, and neighborhood as well as elected/appointed
> leaders arise to the occasion.
That only works for minor disasters - your an assumption
fails miserably during major regional disasters ( which
cover 100s to 1000s of square miles ).
Because Hurricane Katrina covered such a large area -
everyone was effected simulateously - local emergency
equipment and supplies in the wake of the Hurrican were
frequently destroyed. Unless emergency equipment and
supplies were initially outside the hurricane's destructive path -
there was a good chance it was wiped out. Emergency
equipment and supplies had to be placed outside the
disaster region but needs to be ****pped back to the disaster
area after the hurricane pass the disaster areas.
Re-establi****ng trans****tation and communication links
for emergency supplies and equipment during a very
large regional disaster.
> =A0During floods in Texas, emergency
> workers have to turn away too many offers from residents to use their
> personal watercraft in rescue and clean up operations. =A0What did New
> Orleans residents do during and after Katrina? =A0Aside from picking up
> the orchestrated yelling and screaming, the motherf*ckers reelected
> their f*cked up mayor (who was spotted in Dallas buying a house during
> Katrina--official real estate records exist in a Texas courthouse to
> sup****t this)!
Why are you soo really angry?
>
> While on the subject, court records exist on suits filed over the years
> by tree huggers against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers every time they
> tried to work on the New Orleans levees. =A0Liberal judges were only too
> happy to issue the injunctions. =A0Yep, all that proposed construction
> could have killed some species of insects. =A0So, people died.
I remember reading a different version of why the levees were not
upgraded.
=46rom what I recall, the US Army Corp of Engineers recommended
upgrades to the New Orleans levees prior to Katrina was not
blocked by *tree hugeers* but because the project lacked
federal funding.
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