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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Orcastraiter who wrote (66274)	9/3/2005 4:19:02 AM
From: Dan B.	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 81568

Allow me to give you another scenario. Some are blaming the Governor. Never the less, suppose there was a belief at that level - where the power to do what we know wasn't done surely did exist - that Katrina would weaken far more greatly before hitting shore as Hurricanes regularly do (and N.O. is just inland enough to hope for an easier time of it). Suppose that an official imagines that bussing a hundred thousand people for naught, on a day's notice to drivers and support personnel involved (please consider all the astrodomes and places they are now going to go, you'd have to), with each "damn hurricane that never hits", and so evacuating in a fashion (every "every bus and train and truck" involved, part of a process which you heretofore have said you couldn't understand for the life of you wasn't done) & expense as never known to have been undertaken even in those parts before (if in Cuba...ahem), would be frowned upon in the public eye. Katrina, she came quick, and though it maketh my writing here for naught, the total forced/bussed/trucked evacuation solution (which we can see would have saved lives) may VERY seldom if ever have been seriously considered at any level of our government for decades. It's that simple, perhaps. Dan B.