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To: Jorj X Mckie who wrote (54629)	9/2/2005 9:58:06 AM
From: Oral Roberts	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 57110

We are like 70 hours from the levee breach and we wonder why the Federal government hasn't air dropped 20,000 nannies. I hate to sound crass but all major roads are destroyed, the airport was under water, there aren't enough helicopters in the world to airlift all of these people out, yada, yada, yada. I mean come on! Sadly on the local level it's obvious that there was no plan. You can't just say evacuate NO when 20% of your population is cared for by the state with no way to leave. I mean they didn't even have a thought about organizing bus convoy's to get these people out of there. Locally they have failed in a huge way. NO will come under control in these coming days. Things are happening. Just not as fast as todays folks who believe instant gratification is the way the world should be. Bigger question to me is this incompetence NO specific? Does my city have a clue in hell in how to respond to a disaster of this proportion? Somehow I think not. I think we all need to be looking at our own personal preparedness on the thinking that we may need to care for ourselves and our families for some weeks with 0 help from the government or law enforcement during the first days of a disaster.