Katrina

[Ghetta Life]

Mark is correct about #1 below.  This, as bad as it has devolved, was not 
the "worst case scenario" for the City.  And anyone familiar w/ the area 
knows this.  That is why the Feds "we didn't expect it to be this bad" line 
is just pure bullshit.  They SHOULD have known, but the truth is that 
domestic issues are a low priority for this gang.  They have filled FEMA 
with political hacks while cutting budgets for Army Corp projects designed 
to protect against these disasters.  They are searching desperately now for 
a fig leaf, and hoping people will soon lose interest...

I know some now wonder if New Orleans will be able to recover.  I have no 
doubt it WILL.

David Morris

>Howdy
>Three purile observations:
>
>[1] As bad as it is it isn't as bad as they thought it was going to be the 
>day before the storm came ashore--- a category 5 hurricane landing square 
>amidships on New Orleans, and overwhelming the levees on the Mississippi 
>side of town where the water level is substantially higher than in Lake 
>Ponchartrain. They thought the flooding would be even worse than it has 
>turned out to be, and they just *left* the poor people there. Relief forces 
>should have been pre-positioned for instant deployment. "Marine One" should 
>have landed in the Superdome parking lot the moment the sun came out.
>
>[2] A few days from now a few upper-management career people at FEMA and in 
>the Corps of Engineers are going to start using the "we were running around 
>with our hair on fire" metaphor.
>
>[3] and lastly: Why oh why couldn't the storm have been named Katje?
>
>Terrible situation. This is going to be bad bad bad for a long long
>time, nationwide. But I'm sure George is sure that the Lord will
>provide, and that the dead are in a better place.
>Mark
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