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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: jlallen who wrote (731557)3/13/2006 3:47:24 PM
From: Rainy_Day_Woman  Read Replies (3) of 769670
 
well, to be frank also, Nagin and Blanco had to deal with bad evac and contingency plans - if you could call them plans

no working communications to speak of

I don't think anyone could have handled it well

everything that could go wrong went wrong

the National Hurricane Center, called New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin on the night of August 27 to express his extreme concern over hurricane Katrina and Nagin then called for a voluntary evacuation of the city that night

it wasn't until the morning of august 28 that the National Weather Service issued the catastrophic bulletin - subsequently nagin immediately ordered a citywide mandatory evacuation [the first such order in the new orleans]

by then many people couldn't leave, planes and trains were not running

pre-disaster scenarios estimated that 100,000 or more residents would not have the transportation means to escape the city [that was right on] - the superdome was designated in advance as the "refuge of last resort" had been designated in advance - city buses were redeployed to shuttle local residents there with over 500 National Guard troops

not enough troops, not enough refuges, not enough bus drivers

they never expected 3 levees to fail

they never expected most of the pumps to fail

they never expected they percentage of looting and lawlessness

no plan for marshall law

and on and on and on

much of the same thing could happen in Miami or Tampa or any large city on a coastal area

or SanFran and La in a earthquake
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