This thread was started by Dark Knight - last year - regarding hampered attempts to flee ivan
and a year later, here we are with a huge disaster in NO
and a year later, here we are with a huge disaster in NO
Cool, now explain it to us, please, lol!Beyond Belief said:Thanks for posting that. After all the posts on what went wrong, I now can decide for myself with absolute certainty.
No, I'll get dumped on. I know good and well where hurricane preparedness responsibility lies, I live this threat every year from June to November.Dark Knight said:Cool, now explain it to us, please, lol!
Beyond Belief said:No, I'll get dumped on. I know good and well where hurricane preparedness responsibility lies, I live this threat every year from June to November.
Beyond Belief said:yep. it starts with taking resposibility for oneself.
bulletgirl2002 said:Where does it lie? I think first with the individual and then with the local and then the state, then the Feds. In that order....
kgeaux said:You are so right. The talk locally is that no one expected so many people to fail to heed evacuation notices....some could not get out, there's always those poor people, some refused to leave pets and elderly behind, some had ridden out other hurricanes and didn't realize how devastatingly different Katrina would be, there's probably as many reasons that some stayed behind as there are keys on my keyboard.
Local government had a totally inadequate plan. The state leadership disappeared for a period of time after the levies broke.
Again, local talk is that there literally was NO LEADERSHIP AT ALL in the early hours. NO ONE was in authority, no one person took control.
When troops were ordered into the area, they were not given orders as to what to do: search? rescue? hand out food and water? No one told them what to do, so they sat there playing cards.
No federal response? Guess what, I am hearing they weren't asked to come in! And they cannot come until asked!! I am not sure if this is true, but if it is, Kathleen Blanco has just committed political suicide, and that's a shame cuz she is a good person, has served the state in various capacities so well in the past.
My poor state is going to come out of this looking like a banana republic AGAIN.