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To: el_gaviero who wrote (68369)	9/4/2005 11:43:09 AM
From: Slagle	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

El Gaviero Re: "New Orleans" The Jefferson Parish guy for sure, did you see that? But all of it. Last year Charlie hit this place and did vast damage. There was even a strange event similar to NO. Here a new public auditorium was used for a "shelter" just like the Superdome. Half the roof blew off with over a thousand folks inside. Half the roof and not just a few panels, like the Superdome. Anyway, Charlie hit Friday afternoon, closing the roads into town with debris and knocking out electric service. Blew over the town water tower with much higher winds than NO experienced. By Saturday evening all the roads into town were open again. By Sunday or maybe late Saturday there were all sorts of relief agencies in town with water, ect. But private charties and agencies, not the Feds. On Sunday or maybe Monday there were F-16's overhead escorting the Bush brothers. On Sunday of maybe Monday I saw Jeb on the steps of our courthouse, some ten blocks from here. By Monday FEMA was here in a big way. With New Orleans, there was no damage to the Mississippi River Bridges, they were open right after the storm. And of course I-10 coming in from the North was open. With New Orleans you have all these elevated roadways leading right into the heart of the city, from them you could go anywhere in town, high and dry. You would have a problem coming in from the East on 1-10 or US 90 but not at all from the west or even from the north. Surely they should have had big truckloads of water and the like that very evening. THey did here right away and here there was lots of chainsaw work to get trees and power poles off the road. Just weird to me. And now you hear these tales that FEMA actually "blocked" shipments of water and other things? What is that about? Slagle