<p>From Time Magazine…</p>
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<p>I feel special!!! ;)</p>
<p>Its a good thing he has Rove, Daddy Bush and Clinton to salvage his image</p>
<p>Goody</p>
<p>Oh who cares. Bush did not cause the hurricane–get it?? We will fix NO as time permits and nobody will really give a f***</p>
<p>Ummmm the Governments handling of the disastor has been awful, or do you think it has been handled well, and that Bush has been a great leader through all this, well we only have a day and ahalf to judge his leadership in this, cause he dinn’t show any before</p>
<p>And if you were there you would give a )*%#</p>
<p>Fix a Citym, what about all the people you care about them at all</p>
<p>guess not since you don’t give a )(*%)#</p>
<p>city girlms mom, You took the words right ouf of my mouth.</p>
<p>NO was a human cesspool befor the event and nothing much has changed.</p>
<p>barrons, that was really uncalled for…I feel sorry for you, you have no soul</p>
<p>Barrons, care to justify that comment?</p>
<p>Everytime I see or hear about a disaster like this and knowing personally how it feels to lose everything, I acknowledge: There but for the grace of god go I…</p>
<p>Of for heavens sake Cheers. Time is a Liberally biased magazine, everyone has know that for 40 years. </p>
<p>We are seeing great grief and despair via the media. Help takes time.I know we have seen this media coverage instantly, however, people can only move so fast! Do you get this bent out of shape when you have to wait 10 minutes at the grocery store?</p>
<p>ATTENTION EVERYONE; THIS IS A CASTASTROPE! Many people are going to die.Maybe we can see it on the telie but this is a disaster and many, the old, sick, young, may not make it.It is a real life drama. </p>
<p>Help is here and coming.And what may I ask, Cheers, are YOU doing to help?..besides posting inflamatory and critical articles. You don’t see any of those RISKING THEIR LIVES HELPING sitting here typing. I suggest you become active in your community helping and you will see the pointlessness to being a Complainer.</p>
<p>Help takes time while people die</p>
<p>Why does it take so long, why weren’t trucks ready, and why were those people still in NO with no way out? </p>
<p>So you blame the messengers…typical</p>
<p>From what I have seen, help if real slow- food water - yeah thats coming in mighty quick</p>
<p>Regarding FEMA: </p>
<p>in 2003 FEMA is downgraded from a cabinet level position and put in the Department of Homeland Security, Its mission is refocused on fighting acts of terrorism</p>
<p>in 2003 FEMA’s preparation and planning functions were reassigned to a new Office or Preparedness and Response. FEMA would henceforth focus only on response and recovery</p>
<p>In 2001, FEMA said a major hurrican hitting NO was one of the three likeliest, most catastophic disasters facing this country</p>
<p>CGM: As for the people in NO with no way out - weren’t they ordered to evacuate? While many of them might lack the means to get out… do you really expect that, within what, 24 hours?, the gov’t can figure out how to evacuate tons of people who refuse to follow orders? It’s often a lot easier for an individual to try to find a way to get himself out (friends, family, public transportation, whatever) than it is for the gov’t to identify those people who can’t get out and organize a mass exodus - in the little time they have. Katrina was a Category 1 when she hit Florida on Friday. Can you really expect the government to evacuate an entire city on such short notice? Before you run around complaining, think of the logistics - alerting the appropriate agencies, finding ways of getting those people out - this isn’t Hogwarts, people, buses can’t just be conjured up to whisk people away.</p>
<p>A history lesson for y’all who might have missed it: the levees in NOLA have been a huge issue for decades. Can’t blame Bush for it. I remember being a kid in Florida during hurricane season. The talking heads on the Weather Channel discussed the problems of what would happen if a hurricane hit NOLA, and having the levees break was always a huge concern - newspapers carried little diagrams of what could happen. But, since it’s been around for decades, it’s Bush’s fault, right? NOLA just doesn’t have enough hurricane activity for them to take the preventative measures to develop their infrastructure the way that, for example, Florida does. For example, some places in FL require that houses be built at least 8’ or 10’ above sea level (even when they are waterfront), which obviously makes a big difference in how the area survives a hurricane. Disaster breeds more disaster. </p>
<p>IMO, it’s just SICK to blame a person for a natural disaster. That’s right - natural. We’re only human. This whole thing just reminds me of something my mom said right after 9/11 - she saw the people jumping out of the towers and wondered why the gov’t wasn’t there to do something like stretch nets between the buildings. Then it hit her: Superman isn’t here. Our gov’t can’t save us all… this is not an action-adventure movie where three high-ranking officials will meet in the dead of night and figure out a brilliant plan to miraculously save the city, which would not work expect for the handsome lead actor who pulls it off at the last second. When 145-mile-hour winds and a 20-foot storm surge hit a low-lying city that is ill-equipped in terms of infrastructure to handle it, there is chaos. Expecting less (or more) is just unreal. Blaming it on one person is sick.</p>
<p>I don’t blame Bush.</p>
<p>I do think that if FEMA is going to strongly recommend that folks leave a city (for any reason), they have a responsibility to provide assistance to those they KNOW, in advance, don’t have the resources to do so. I don’t remember a single FEMA-sponsored bus leaving NO prior to the storm. And they need to do so, not only because they should be helping people, but because they are an “emergency management” agency, and they could be doing their jobs that much easier by actual performing a little bit of emergency management in advance.</p>
<p>As for the levees - so now we know that a little pipe bomb has the capacity to take out a good part of a major American city. For some reason, I am not feeling more secure, even if they have access to my library card.</p>
<p>“a little pipe bomb has the capacity to take out a good part of a major American city.” </p>
<p>Ummm, I think you would flunk Terrorism 101. A Class 4 hurricane has the energy of multiple nuclear bombs.</p>
<p>From today’s WSJ:</p>
<p>" Willie Caston, 57, who drove one of the trucks to Gulfport as part of the FEMA relief effort, said he wasn’t dispatched to Mississippi until late Tuesday. he and many other truck drivers loaded with critical supplies spent three days in West Palm Beach, Fla., near where Hurrian Katrina made its first landfall last week. “I think we shoudl have been here a whole lot sooner,” Mr. Caston said."</p>
<p>Keep in mind:</p>
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<li> Katrina was never forecast to be above Cat 1 in east Florida.</li>
<li> They actually had MORE warning time for the Gulf Coast.</li>
<li> What the Gulf did not have was the right governors…</li>
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<p>And we didn’t have a Presdient who cared</p>
<p>"“a little pipe bomb has the capacity to take out a good part of a major American city.” </p>
<p>Ummm, I think you would flunk Terrorism 101. A Class 4 hurricane has the energy of multiple nuclear bombs."</p>
<p>Excuse me - one little pipe bomb by the side of a levee…, no hurricane required. All right, make it two.</p>
<p>And where were the Senators, were was Trent Lott…where were the state legislators, where was anybody</p>
<p>Oh yeah the victims were the underclass, the ones left behind were the poor, the old, the babies</p>
<p>RE: blaming a person; I recently saw an article where it was mentioned that the evacuation order by the mayor of NO was too late (i think Sat. AM). That gave only 24 hrs for the city to be evacuated, whether you were a person with means or without.</p>
<p>When I consider this, I think it is still miraculous that so many people DID get out in time.</p>