Whhhyy dont they send buses?

[Clifra Jones]

Originally posted by Lazerus
I don't mean to be harsh or unfeeling or 'mean'. But I saw that storm Saturday evening. It was enough of a threat for me to leave if I was in it's path. Based on the reports that it was a well known fact what could and would happen in New Orleans if a major hurricane hit there, if 'you' lived there, what would you do. Saturday night, not Sunday afternoon. Was Greyhound still running? Was it over capacity? I don't know. But I tend to think that there are a lot of people that could have hauled bellybutton that didnt'.

I'm not saying they don't deserve any and all help we can give, I'm just wondering what they were thinking.

Notice the "could have". I know there were many that had no choice.

Living in a hurricane zone I can tell you there have been a number of times when we were on hurricane watch (i.e. storms out there) and I've gone to the store and the checkout clerk was totally unaware that there was a storm out there. A lot of folks just don't watch any news or weather. Some of these people have to be informed in person.

I can tell you with absolute certainty that the situation in N.O., LA would NEVER have happened in Florida.

[sling322]

I believe they tried to get people on busses at the Superdome to ship them to Houston and had to stop several times because of the idiots firing shots at the relief efforts.

[Iceman24]

Another big lesson here, if your not stashing food and water and dont have some defenses for an emergency, and you expect the feds to save you......you have a terribly flawed expectation.


Nice I love that quote... everybody thinks its the governments job to save them, when in reality they should have lookin out for themselves and there family's... heck there just pumping the water out today and theres still thousands of people that are refusing to leave... Its there own faults not the gov's... Look at California, they have basically earthquake proofed everything, made the buildings so they can sway... Every 5-10 years a really big hurricane comes through the gulf, this isn't anything new, nothing unexpected... Look what happened on the Mississippi a few years back when it rose over the banks... in short DON'T LIVE THERE. its just so mid boggling to me how people don't think about stuff like that. heck I live in north TX and when I was looking to buy a house that was 1 of the 1st things I looked at, buying a house that would not get flood damaged. All I see this storm as is a way of population control, gets rid of all the ignorant people who think they can live through that, did you see where they found like 100 people dead and tied together with a rope, common now, who's brite idea was that. The problem in New Orleans is that the party doesn't stop long enough to think ahead, they probably didn't even know a storm was coming... Dallas TX took in a bunch of refugees and today they are actually sending these refugees kids to Dallas schools, they say that 3/4 of the kids can't even read and write, that they don't know basic language skills or even simple math... and this is Dallas schools lol not the best in the world

[Hangtime]

jeezuzs.. where to start?

Califonia is NOT 'earthquake proofed', the only thing the worlds geologists disagree on is WHEN that state plops into the pacific.. not IF.

Yer a Texas man.. checked in with Galveston's emergency plan for a class 3 hurricane lately? That city will dissapear, for the SECOND time if another strikes.. again, not IF.. just WHEN.

The entire Gulf coast, the entire eastern seaboard and every city on it is a disaster waiting to happen...
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Then, there's blizzards.. Tornado's.. oh, cripes, everybody, EVERWHERE is at risk from a natural disaster.. dam failures, spring rains, excessive snow melt.. there is NO 'safe' place!!!![/b]

The best smartest thing you can do.. every citizen should do, is develop a pair (a 'stay put' and a 'go' plan) of reaction plans, get together a 'stay-put' kit and a 'go-kit', rehearse the family on what the plans are, arrange communications and rendesvous points and update 'em every year or so.

And for cripes sake, if yer waiting for the government (local, state or federal) to save yer sorry butts after the fact you've failed the New Orleans National Object Lesson.

[Eagler]

I don't see how someone would think the gov would respond "quickly" to anything even on its best day, when it takes at least half a day to get a drivers license

[soda72]

Originally posted by Eagler
I don't see how someone would think the gov would respond "quickly" to anything even on its best day, when it takes at least half a day to get a drivers license

In Texas they give you a temporary paper license and you have to wait for them to send the actual license by mail... it takes weeks....

[Larry]

Originally posted by soda72
In Texas they give you a temporary paper license and you have to wait for them to send the actual license by mail... it takes weeks....

like soda said here you get a paper permit that lasts 60days. I still have mine from when I got it a few months ago and my drivers license came 2 1/2 weeks later.

[soda72]

http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/344065p-293598c.html

And how's this for preparation? Cops were told not to work on the day Katrina hit, one officer told The New York Times, but "to come in the next day, to save money on their budget."

soda's prediction:

1.) Brown is fired, with Bush discraced for appointing him...
2.) Kathleen Babineaux Blanco is scorned but wins another term as governor....
3.) Delcared a Hero, Ray Nagin becomes a senator of  Louisiana, promising he won't let the federal government get in the way again...

[SkyWolf]

Originally posted by soda72
For the ones who purposely abadoned their post I hope you burn in Hell...

That's nice. Come talk to me after you've lived a few years.  It must be nice to have only backs and whites and no grays.

[SkyWolf]

Originally posted by Iceman24
Dallas TX took in a bunch of refugees and today they are actually sending these refugees kids to Dallas schools, they say that 3/4 of the kids can't even read and write, that they don't know basic language skills or even simple math... and this is Dallas schools lol not the best in the world

According to Jesse Jackson calling them refugees is racist.

[Sandman]

Originally posted by Hangtime
jeezuzs.. where to start?

Califonia is NOT 'earthquake proofed', the only thing the worlds geologists disagree on is WHEN that state plops into the pacific.. not IF.

Wrong.

The Pacific Plate is moving northwest along a transform boundary with the North American Plate.

California isn't going to sink, EVER.

[Ripsnort]

Originally posted by soda72
http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/344065p-293598c.html

 

soda's prediction:

1.) Brown is fired, with Bush discraced for appointing him...
2.) Kathleen Babineaux Blanco is scorned but wins another term as governor....
3.) Delcared a Hero, Ray Nagin becomes a senator of  Louisiana, promising he won't let the federal government get in the way again...

 It wouldn't be so funny if it were not true!

[soda72]

Originally posted by SkyWolf
That's nice. Come talk to me after you've lived a few years.  It must be nice to have only backs and whites and no grays.

There is no grey area for police officers who simply turned in their badge, leaving their fellow officers high
and dry in a time of need, putting more strain on an already strained force.  It would not be a large
leap, to say that this additional strain may have resulted in further needless loss of life.  My words
may seem harsh, but it's probably much more kinder than what their fellow officers think of them.  My
only hope would be that this is a bad rummor that has started, but I have yet to hear otherwise.

[Shuckins]

Human beings have a breaking point Soda.  Too bad you weren't there to lighten their load.

[Mighty1]

I'm not sure I can blame the officers who decided to save there own families first.