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To: Rande Is who wrote (17)	9/1/2005 1:26:13 PM
From: Proud_Infidel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1118

Re: From last Thursday through Sunday, organization of equipment and personnel should have been performed to perfection. Safe staging areas designated to the East, West and North of destruction zone for gathering of both equipment and rescue personnel, I.E. Airboats, Rescue boats, Rescue Copters, pontoon boats . . . positioned into place as soon winds die down and waters are safe for travel. The mayor of NO issued the evacuation order on Sunday! If things were not known for him to make an evacuation order, why would staging areas be set up, and equipment be brought in, on Thursday?

To: Rande Is who wrote (17)	9/1/2005 1:39:38 PM
From: Rande Is	Respond to of 1118

Civil solution for refugees (also as in prior post). . . DURING STORM, contact every municipality and county shelter within 500 miles of New Orleans to get bed commitments. Little Rock may have had 600 available beds, Birmingham another 400 beds, Corpus Christi perhaps 300 beds, Austin maybe 400 beds, Dallas perhaps a thousand. . . you get the picture. Food and clothing donations made directly to those government shelters by the people, with government and/or Red Cross only needed to take up any slack. Military solution for refugees . . . we just closed dozens of military bases. There are many more that have been closed for several years. El Toro marine base in Southern California alone could house upwards of 100,000 people with running water, electricity, privacy, dining facilities, commissaries, telephones, etc. It was fully remodeled in 1985. C-130 airlift of about 600-1000 at a time. Complete the full evacuation of New Orleans. Nobody left. So what did looters gain? Nothing. This makes confronting them now a moot point. Anarchy for a while until evacuation is completed? Yes, perhaps a small amount for a short time. Rande Is