So are you're saying that if a major hurricane was tracking towards your general area and you were in the red zone of where is COULD hit, you would just blow it off, so to speak, until the last minute when it was 100% certain that it WOULD hit you? That makes for a nice game of chicken, but it's not exactly what we who are not retarded dumbbuttes consider good planning.
You're not getting it -- I'm talking about how there was apparently no f*cking thinking or planning or thinking whatsoever to account for genuine, very possible disaster scenarios. The Gulf Coast gets whacked regularly with big hurricanes -- there was no excuse whatsoever for plan of action to account for these. New Orleans getting hit with a Cat 3+ hurricane? Well what do we have, what do we need, and what do we do in terms of shelters, food, water, power, transportation, security, evacuations, etc., etc..
The Superdome as a shelter of last resort scenario was typical of what a colossal sad-butt example of poor planning this is all turning out to be. "Last resort" means that's what you do when all else fails, but when the storm looked more of a WOULD rather than a COULD, what did they do -- that started putting people in the Superdome. That doesn't sound very "last resort-ish" does it? That made it sound like it was actually a primary shelter all along, and the fact that it became the primary staging area afterwards for rescues and medical treatment also doesn't make it last resort-ish. If there were other primary shelters and staging areas in some sort of emergency, hypothetical plan, what happened to them?
Utter BS -- there is huge, friggin difference in the danger and damage levels being just 50 miles West of even a huge hurricane.
Oh, excellent reasoning -- let's not bother bugging out at all because those evil, hurricane-spawned tornadoes will get us if the hurricane doesn't.
I did answer the question, dumbbutt. If you look at just the schools, you would likely need only about 40 of them to provide shelter to 40,000 since their average shelter capacity is around 1000. These are typical:
Again, more utter BS. My original points were NOT in regards to people who could just load up their SUV's and head out -- they were for the ones who couldn't, the poor as well as the elderly. And even for people with just bad luck.
Umm, there's this thing called "engineering" and some parts of it kind of deals with this stuff. You might want to Google: wind civil engineering structures.
Another umm -- there's this other thing called "building inspection." You might also want to Google: building inspector stadium.
So you're saying that there's no good reason to bother inspecting any shelter because there are no guarantees in life, eh?
They put those people in the Superdome when they were looking at a Cat 5 hurricane coming dead on, but the storm dropped down to a Cat 4, and pbutted to the east of it, greatly diminishing the wind force. Despite this very lucky break, the roof start peeling away anyway.
And this wasn't exactly an unforseen scenario -- last year they used the Superdome for a shelter when Ivan was threatening and may people questioned using it for that purpose without really studying it how adequate it would be.
I think this little BS reasoning was dealt with a little further back.
Yeah, well, I have this thing about using a mbuttive structure to shelter 10,000+ without having much of an idea about how well the roof would stand up, even if it was in tip-top shape, which was another unknown.
Noooo....as I pointed out earlier, they started using it immediately -- not very "last resort" like, eh?
I do believe I already covered that -- look at the maintenace records and actually inspect the friggin thing at the very least. A little engineering modeling probably wouldn't be such a bad idea as well, and maybe look at how other similar-enough structures in the world held up in major wind storms. Not exactly strange, radical ideas.
They identified a while bunch of problems and questions with their disaster planning and evidently failed to do any real follow-up:
An excerpt:
"Catastrophic hurricane planning is another area where much additional work and collaboration between the different professional communities is needed. Hurricane Georges in 1998 and Hurricane Ivan in 2004 both had the potential to water the city of New Orleans and much of the surrounding southeast Louisiana under 10-20 feet of water. Estimates are that only 50-60% of the residents evacuated for these storms, meaning over half a million people were at significant risk. Warned or not, if people have not evacuated and the water comes, there will be mbutt baneities. Last year the Louisiana Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness and FEMA (and many other federal and state agencies) conducted a week-long joint planning exercise on how to respond and recover from just such a scenario. This event helped produce the first catastrophic hurricane response plan, but it also raised more questions than it answered."
Enough f*cking said....
-BC
