skymiles 3 #1 September 1, 2005 … at least not in New Orleans. In my opinion it was a man-made disaster just waiting to happen. The city is below sea level and the only thing holding back the sea is a vast system of levees. The hurricane did not flood the city, but a broken levee did. A levee will eventually break with or without a hurricane. Nonetheless, a hurricane hitting NO has been anticipated for years and supposedly prepared for. So why were there so many people stranded in the flood waters. As I understand it, the lowest areas of NO are also some of the poorest neighborhoods. It seems obvious that these people would not have the means or money to evacuate. There was plenty of warning of the approaching hurricane but there appeared to be no coordinated effort to help them move to safer ground. So much for disaster planning - here we had a predicted disaster with at least two days of warning and still it took the authorities by surprise. If we can’t plan for this, what can we plan for? Phil Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
billvon 3,132 #2 September 1, 2005 >If we can’t plan for this, what can we plan for? Yep. And thank god most people had evacuated. What if a terrorist had taken a barge, filled it with ANFO and rammed it into one of these earthen levees? You'd have a lot more dead. Didn't we plan for stuff like this? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
namgrunt 0 #3 September 2, 2005 john kerry and dems. did it to make gw look bad that is where all the black helos are parked ..59 YEARS,OVERWEIGHT,BALDIND,X-GRUNT LAST MIL. JUMP VIET-NAM(QUAN-TRI) www.dzmemories.com Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Laurel 0 #4 September 2, 2005 There are lots of cities at risk for some sort of natural disaster. Note that NOLA is not even the only city below sea level - remember the kid with his thumb in the dike? There are fault lines, volcanos, beaches, wide open spaces in tornado alley, etc... Plus, NOLA has been around since the mid-1700s; before our national declaration of independence and constitution was ever signed. I totally believe that this was a natural disaster, but I also believe more prep work could have been done and people have been screaming for it long before Katrina came ashore...................................................................... PMS#28, Pelogrande Rodriguez#1074 My Pink M Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kallend 2,175 #5 September 2, 2005 QuoteThere are lots of cities at risk for some sort of natural disaster. Note that NOLA is not even the only city below sea level - remember the kid with his thumb in the dike? There are fault lines, volcanos, beaches, wide open spaces in tornado alley, etc... Plus, NOLA has been around since the mid-1700s; before our national declaration of independence and constitution was ever signed. I totally believe that this was a natural disaster, but I also believe more prep work could have been done and people have been screaming for it long before Katrina came ashore. The hurricane was a natural disaster that might have been made worse by human induced climatic change. The aftermath of Katrina is a man-made disaster of epic proportion.... The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BillyVance 35 #6 September 2, 2005 QuoteQuote The hurricane was a natural disaster that might have been made worse by human induced climatic change. The aftermath of Katrina is a man-made disaster of epic proportion. BINGO!!! Nobody could have said it any simpler. By the way, Katrina didn't look very menacing when it crossed south Florida as a category 1 storm after forming so close by in the southeastern Bahamas. It blew up to a 175 mph category 5 monster just a couple of days before it hit. A lot of people definitely didn't respect this one..."Mediocre people don't like high achievers, and high achievers don't like mediocre people." - SIX TIME National Champion coach Nick Saban Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites bmcd308 0 #7 September 2, 2005 >>The aftermath of Katrina is a man-made disaster of epic proportion. << I agree. I wish we would have handled it better and started handling it sooner. It amazes me that we, as the most powerful nation in the world, seem so powerless to handle this. When I think of all our national accomplishments, it makes me think that we should have been able to pull this off looking pretty good. I will be the first to admit that I know nothing about the logistics of a rescue, but I think that all of us outside the storm damage zone (and remember that we, collectively, are the government) have been pathetically slow to respond and ineffective in our response thus far, and I think that the lawlessness in the storm zone (not the theft of food and stuff, but the raping and murdering and stealing of jewelry and electronics) is an embarrassment. My own home city is a destination for storm refugees. We have a FEMA shelter set up, and lots of churches are housing people. I saw on the news last night that the refugees' cars parked outside the FEMA shelter got broken into and their clothes and pictures and the other stuff they chose to load up when they left the storm zone got stolen. That is crap. Brent ---------------------------------- www.jumpelvis.com Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Join the conversation You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account. Note: Your post will require moderator approval before it will be visible. Reply to this topic... × Pasted as rich text. Paste as plain text instead Only 75 emoji are allowed. × Your link has been automatically embedded. Display as a link instead × Your previous content has been restored. Clear editor × You cannot paste images directly. Upload or insert images from URL. Insert image from URL × Desktop Tablet Phone Submit Reply 0
bmcd308 0 #7 September 2, 2005 >>The aftermath of Katrina is a man-made disaster of epic proportion. << I agree. I wish we would have handled it better and started handling it sooner. It amazes me that we, as the most powerful nation in the world, seem so powerless to handle this. When I think of all our national accomplishments, it makes me think that we should have been able to pull this off looking pretty good. I will be the first to admit that I know nothing about the logistics of a rescue, but I think that all of us outside the storm damage zone (and remember that we, collectively, are the government) have been pathetically slow to respond and ineffective in our response thus far, and I think that the lawlessness in the storm zone (not the theft of food and stuff, but the raping and murdering and stealing of jewelry and electronics) is an embarrassment. My own home city is a destination for storm refugees. We have a FEMA shelter set up, and lots of churches are housing people. I saw on the news last night that the refugees' cars parked outside the FEMA shelter got broken into and their clothes and pictures and the other stuff they chose to load up when they left the storm zone got stolen. That is crap. Brent ---------------------------------- www.jumpelvis.com Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
