09-07-2005, 03:45 AM
Galt Wrote:It should not have taken a week to get them there, but it's not going to be two days to mobilize thousands of people. It is going to to day a few days. I just does. That's all I'm saying. By knee-jerk I mean that people's first reaction is that the federal government shold be fixing issues, when it should not be the case.The Federal government has a special, often used, part of the government which is TRAINED to mobilize thousands of people in a matter of HOURS. Its called the US Military. Are you saying we can't get the US military into a city in our own fucking country for five fucking days?
But besides all that, you're right, it takes a few days. How much notice did they have that the hurricane was on a path for New Orleans? Three days. And with the path it was taking, it's not very hard to conclude that by the time it made landfall in Florida on the 25th that it would go into the Gulf and pick up more strength. On the 25th, someone should have said "hey, that there hurricane is about to spend the next few days in the warm water of the Gulf, and then it's gonna pass over a portion of the Gulf Coast. Maybe we should mobilize some people."
The Hurricane Center put out a warning that said total catastrophic damage predicted for New Orleans. That oughta mean that the worst case scenario oughta be prepared for. What was the worse case scenario? That the storm surge goes over the levee and puts the city in 30 feet of water with 100,000 people dying. What actually happened? The levee broke before the surge went over the wall, thus, less people died, and thus, there were more survivors. Chertoff basically claims that this is the reason why he wasn't prepared for New Orleans; because he had planned on all of those survivors being dead.