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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: combjelly who wrote (249002)9/3/2005 2:13:05 PM
From: i-node  Read Replies (2) of 1571826
 
Reasonably. I am also reasonably familiar with hurricanes and how they get responded to from Carla on. If it was only Slidell and New Orleans, you would have a point. But that whole area from Louisiana to Alabama only recently starting getting supplies. Some, like Grand Isle are very problematic. Others, aren't.

First of all, this isn't a "hurricane". Were it merely a "hurricane", we would not have the need to evacuate a city of a million and a half. We would not be limited to ground transportation. And vital communications infrastructure would already be up and running again.

The problem isn't the "hurricane". The problem is the flood. As Chertoff has properly characterized it, it is as though you are providing Tsunami relief where the Tsunami came and stayed.

There is plenty of finger pointing to be done. Obviously, local officials had NO DISASTER PLAN WHATSOEVER. Move people to the Superdome, which can't sustain life for more than a couple days. Where are the elected officials who should have been getting federal money to deal with the levee problem over the last 10-15 years? Teddy had no problem getting billions for the "Big Dig" which hasn't saved a life YET. The governor of Louisiana is grossly incompetent -- a conclusion I (and everyone else we knew there) reached after hearing her speak last May at my daughter's graduation.

We're talking about a $100 billion problem here -- not a $1 billion Alicia. It is a $100 billion problem because of the flood, not because of the hurricane.

The humanitarian crisis is just beginning. Give these people a couple of weeks in the Astrodome and they'll be raising hell.
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