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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: combjelly who wrote (252709)9/26/2005 9:52:25 AM
From: i-node  Read Replies (2) of 1571733
 
You keep saying that, like flooding never happens as a result of a hurricane and/or the flooding in New Orleans was totally unanticipated. Neither of those statements is true. If it can be anticipated, then it can be planned for.

Flooding on the scale of NOLA, or even a fraction of that, has never happened as a result of ANY hurricane in history. Did everyone know it could happen? Yes.

Even the 1927 flood displaced only 1/3 to 1/2 the number people, and that was over four or five states. There is very little that could have been done differently by the federal government to change this outcome.

Yes, I'll agree the red tape issues are absurd and should be corrected. And I'm sure they will be. As will be the difficulty in establishing lines of command. But we've never had an event on this scale, and it is silly to think that the response to it would be perfect or excellent. It just isn't realistic.

Planning? The planning failure was that the locals had no plan for evacuating a city that, by your own admission, they "knew" would be underwater within hours; a task that the federal government has no role in, whatsoever (check out the evacuation of Houston, which was competently managed by local officials).

When an entire city of a million or more is flooded by 8-12 feet of water in the course of a few hours, all you can do is what was done -- use helicopters to pick people off roofs as quickly as possible. It would be nice if the local officials had stocked their own shelters with food and water, but that didn't happen.
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