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QUETZAL:
Sage you d*** Bleeding Heart Liberal!


Also Sage I don't have time to read 83 pages today, and I skimmed it and didn't find what you were referring to @ http://www.cefa.fsu.edu/nopp_study.pdf
Please tell us what pages the info is on.
Sorry that link is wrong. You can see though where storm damage was studied as well as the econic impact of the ports. There is a levy study associated with it. I'll keep looking.

Actually I'm kinda conservative. Just a tad left of Reagan :D
 
Wildcard:
Like I said, some will not be able to leave. Callous? Yes, Uninformed, quite to the contrary. I have been involved with EMS/fire/disaster response/DMAT type things since I was 14 years old and started teaching CPR classes.
If the able bodied people would have left as told to then the rescources could have been used to rescue those that couldn't leave. They chose to stay and create the problem we have today.

And where pray tell would you have them walk to?
 
To high ground, to the shelters, to friends or relatives houses. Anywhere but below sea level durring a hurricane. Most that are stranded chose to stay.
 
The hurricane could have just as easily turned away, weakened to the point of not being a problem, ect... 3 days prior to landfall, predictions weren't showing it hitting NO, 2 days? the same. You can't predict when, where, and how hard.

There've been people saying this will happen for years, but they didn't know when. Way before the 2001 study.

Maybe we should just converge all our armed forces and the entirety of FEMA for every hurricane possibility? Its the only REAL way to be sure, but who's gonna foot the bill? If that were the case, we'd have a really long pointless thread about how we're all wasting money with every storm.

Maybe FEMA could have been of more assistance earlier if they weren't being shot at? They're not gonna endanger more people by becoming targets.
 
It's now coming out that many guard units had mobed and were ready to roll but were not requested by the govoners of the damaged states. Also caches of fire and EMS gear remain untouched also due to lack of requests.
 
Wildcard:
It's now coming out that many guard units had mobed and were ready to roll but were not requested by the govoners of the damaged states. Also caches of fire and EMS gear remain untouched also due to lack of requests.

How about that?
 
Wildcard:
It's now coming out that many guard units had mobed and were ready to roll but were not requested by the govoners of the damaged states. Also caches of fire and EMS gear remain untouched also due to lack of requests.
If you are going to quote someone post a reference because I here just the opposite.

Quote: "Several states ready and willing to send National Guard troops to the rescue in New Orleans didn't get the go-ahead until days after the storm struck - a delay nearly certain to be investigated by Congress."

New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson offered Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco help from his state's National Guard last Sunday, the day before Hurricane Katrina hit Louisiana. Blanco accepted, but paperwork needed to get the troops en route didn't come from Washington until late Thursday.

Bush had the legal authority to order the National Guard to the disaster area himself, as he did after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks .
http://thefacts.com/wire.lasso?repo...TEMPLATE=blank.html&CTIME=2005-09-03-16-36-07
 
QUETZAL:
If you are going to quote someone post a reference because I here just the opposite.

Quote: "Several states ready and willing to send National Guard troops to the rescue in New Orleans didn't get the go-ahead until days after the storm struck - a delay nearly certain to be investigated by Congress."

http://thefacts.com/wire.lasso?repo...TEMPLATE=blank.html&CTIME=2005-09-03-16-36-07
You two just said the same thing.
 
NOLA Louis Armstrong Intl Airport was open Tuesday Aug. 30, 2005 and


Quote:
"In addition to Guard help, the federal government could have activated, but did not, a major air support plan under a pre-existing contract with airlines. The program, called Civilian Reserve Air Fleet, lets the government quickly put private cargo and passenger planes into service.
The CRAF provision has been activated twice, once for the Persian Gulf War and again for the Iraq war."
http://thefacts.com/wire.lasso?repo...TEMPLATE=blank.html&CTIME=2005-09-03-16-36-07

NOLA Louis Armstrong Intl Airport
Click on:
Hurricane Katrina Information
and then click Hurricane Katrina Recovery
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