[Rhodes22-list] New Orleans Flood control problems

[Wally Buck]

I am not sure when you moved to SC but they did this for Hugo. All lanes of 
26 were NORTH! Both my wife and I were wonering why this wasn't done.

Wally


>From: "ed kroposki" <ekroposki at charter.net>
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>Subject: RE: [Rhodes22-list] New Orleans Flood control problems
>Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2005 09:41:06 -0400
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>Wrong:  The Red Cross should always beat the National Guard to a disaster.
>The National Guard is a military organization, not a social relief
>organization.  Better yet, national religious organizations should also 
>beat
>the National Guard.  States, Counties and municipalities should have
>disaster plans.  Obviously, New Orleans, Louisiana and southern Mississippi
>did not good evacuation plans.  Did you see the pictures of people trying 
>to
>leave on the northbound interstates?  It was a six-lane road.  Three lanes
>bumper to bumper trying to get out.  Three lanes with occasional traffic
>going south.  The proper thing would have been to close all traffic going
>south and divert traffic going north onto the south bound lanes.  Six lanes
>out would have expedited the evacuation.  They should have had gas tank
>trucks filling up cars before they got on so that people who had limited 
>gas
>could go farther away.  Blame the wimpy and slow to act local and state
>officials.
>Now the National Guard and military police are needed to control the
>situation.  I would hope that they are armed with orders to shot to kill
>troublemakers.  There is no need to tolerate bad human behavior.  They
>jeopardize the efforts of good people trying to do good deeds.  Did you see
>the pictures of all the private fishing boats, bass boats, fan boats,
>volunteering to assist.  There is good and bad.  This situation is
>illustrating both.
>Why is the Federal Government the one to blame about lack of flood control
>funding.  Why aren't municipal and state governments responsible?  It is
>because they would have to raise local and state taxes.  Why should people
>in Minnesota have to pay for flood control in New Orleans?  Facilities and
>businesses could locate in safer locations, and some have.
>
>Oh, hum.
>Ed Kroposki
>Greenville, SC, USA
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>-----Original Message-----
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>[mailto:rhodes22-list-bounces at rhodes22.org] On Behalf Of anima13
>Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2005 8:13 AM
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>Subject: RE: [Rhodes22-list] New Orleans Flood control funding
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>Yes, Saroj,
>
>The Red Cross should never beat the National Guard to a disaster.
>
>Anne
>
>-----Original Message-----
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>[mailto:rhodes22-list-bounces at rhodes22.org]On Behalf Of Saroj Gilbert
>Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2005 6:55 AM
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>Subject: [Rhodes22-list] New Orleans Flood control funding
>
>
>Interesting piece tying in the impact of the Iraq war with the current
>disaster in New Orleans:
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>
>"No One Can Say they Didn't See it Coming"
>
>By Sidney Blumenthal
>
>In 2001, FEMA warned that a hurricane striking New Orleans was one of the
>three most likely disasters in the U.S. But the Bush administration cut New
>Orleans flood control funding by 44 percent to pay for the Iraq war.
>http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/0,1518,372455,00.html
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>
>This is sickening... I just can't figure out why the streets (or should I
>say  "streams") of New Orleans and other gulf coastal areas are not swamped
>(sorry) with U.S. Military handing out food, water, diapers, and other
>essentials... oh... they're all in Iraq... well I guess the Navy got soft
>and decided to deploy a ship out of Norfolk yesterday.... hmmm... should
>arrive in a week?  The way the government has responded to this disaster so
>far is shameful.  We treat citizens in other countries better than we treat
>our own.
>
>Saroj
>
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