I'm talking about planning, and good planning accounts for things like this.
So you're saying there was this primary plan of using trains, planes, and automobiles, but that failed, as did Plan B, Plan C, and so on until the Superdome plan was reached? Call me silly, but I have the feeling this wasn't exactly the case.
Noooo.... Let's try this: you plan for a hurricane, and include what-ifs for a couple of different levels of flooding and damage levels. A plan like this would also include shelters and staging areas. "Last resort" would be left for something like the Superdome, but ONLY if the primary choices failed or were not available. But as soon as the storm was looming, people were already being sent to the Superdome -- so what happened to all the "primary" shelters?
Answer -- there were never any.
But a levee break was always a scenario with any major hurricane, and the consequences of that well known. So what happened to Plan A for this possibility?
Answer -- there wasn't a Plan A above any beyond just going ahead and using the ill-prepared, untested Superdome.
The drive time to Baton Rouge, about 80 miles away, is normally
While it would have taken much longer in an evacuation, that would have allowed plenty of time to get shelters and Porta Potties in place.
Planning, planning, planning....
You have much more immediate, serious concerns than worrying about tornadoes, traffic accidents, running out of gas, etc., etc. You focus on the matter at hand -- getting people away from a highly dangerous situation.
If a hurricane was approaching, I might give it a thought or two.
It's called planning -- you know beforehand where all the possible shelters, including schools, are. Look at this example from Broward County in Florida:
Umm, the whole point of fleeing west of a hurricane is to get to a place where it's not so windy and therefore less likely to be tearing off roofs.
Aside from Bush appointing a lot of incompetent dumbbuttes to very important, critical positions, there was also this:
"In fiscal year 2006, the New Orleans district of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is bracing for a record $71.2 million reduction in federal funding.
"It would be the largest single-year funding loss ever for the New Orleans district, Corps officials said.
"I've been here over 30 years and I've never seen this level of reduction, said Al Naomi, project manager for the New Orleans district. I think part of the problem is it's not so much the reduction, it's the drastic reduction in one fiscal year. It's the immediacy of the reduction that I think is the hardest thing to adapt to.
"There is an economic ripple effect, too. The cuts mean major hurricane and flood protection projects will not be awarded to local engineering firms. Also, a study to determine ways to protect the region from a Category 5 hurricane has been shelved for now."
Whoops.
Ahhh, I smell the stench of a right winger who believes he is where he is in life thanks to his hard work only, and that people in general get what they deserve. The corrupt philosophy of the selfish, the greedy and the clueless.
I know people who would be stuck in New Orleans now because they would have waited too long to leave in their old Honda because they would have chosen to try to help and check on others the best they could before leaving. Bad luck, but having a truly good, cool and rich life means taking risks, often not completely as well-thought out as they could have been. No right-winger I know of has a good life -- a comfortable one, maybe, not certainly not a good one.
Do you worry that your house is going to crumble apart every time there's a rain storm because there is no guarantee the contractors who built it did it right?
Ummm, we're talking about using a structure for a purpose it was not intended for -- it needed further inspection and analysis.
Well, you're the bringing up all this ancillary what if this, what if that, blah, blah, blah as if something is going to get you no matter what.
We're kind of talking about a building's perspective of either being hit with 200 mph winds or something closer to 100 mph, which was the estimate of the wind speed in New Orleans itself at the peak of the storm.
You really don't have a clue, do you? You can build things to survive pretty tough conditions, including your beloved nor'easters:
Talk about a leap of "logic" -- what of part of "studying it" to see how adequate it would be for a hurricane shelter don't you understand?
Your confused again -- I was merely pointing out your spouting of BS.
Ahh...I see your thinking now: if you don't die from it, it's OK. Like one of those high-speed police chases on COPS or such: by your logic, it doesn't matter if they smash other cars and then lose control and crash into a ditch as long as nobody dies. Responsibility, shmonsibility, eh?
And the non-last-resort shelters are where?
OOooo, you must have missed the structural engineering part.
You mean sort of like this?:
So they all shrugged, cut the New Orleans budger for the US Army Corps of Engineers, and then theh all went to a back room to enjoy a well-deserved smoke. Bah....
-BC
