Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] looks like they finally have a shoot-to-kill order in N.O.

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Thu, 1 Sep 2005, Jonathan King wrote:

> On 9/1/05, Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
> > It just gets worse and worse.  I can only hope that the federal efforts 
> > will start to kick in very soon.  They have been very slow (it seems to 
> > me, but I don't know what our usual speed is).
>
> It has been somewhat slow, but more obviously, completely disorganized. 
> By sometime Saturday it was obvious that a major cat 4 or cat 5 
> hurricane would strike the gulf coast.  *That's* when you start the 
> hospital boat from Baltimore and re-base some advance stuff including 
> Guard call-ups.  Yes, there's a chance you will over-react but the risk 
> of a complete catastrophe is very large.

Exactly -- what's the deal with that?  In addition, we have known to 
expect major hurricanes every year and should have planned years in 
advance for this possibility.


> Another important issue here is that we really don't have very good 
> evacuation plans in place for most vulnerable coastal areas.  A plan 
> that could have gotten another 20,000 people out of the city before the 
> hurricane hit would have made things much easier.  As it was, only the 
> people with cars had a decent shot to get out.

Yet another good point.


We also have to remember that in addition to the refugees, there are many 
people staying with relatives or friends.  Those people also have nowhere 
to go and their friends/relatives won't want to put them up forever. 
Many people have lost jobs.  Tulane and LSU Med School must be shut down 
for at least a while.  It's going to take a while to get things working 
again.

I'm sure glad I live in one of the least disaster-prone places in the 
country!

Mike

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