Katrina

[Joe Allonby]

...and why were the pumps electric? No alternate source of power. No 
stand-alone generators. Might as well have a bunch of old guys standing 
there with buckets. The first thing to go down in a flood is the power grid.


 On 9/4/05, Mark Wright AIA <mwaia at yahoo.com> wrote: 
> 
> Also: I understand that the first catastrophic levee break was at one
> of the recently improved concrete ones, not an old earth levee. I
> wonder who built it, and how they got the contract. Anyone know?
> Mark
> 
> --- Ghetta Life <ghetta_outta at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > 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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