Originally Posted by Jaimecbr900
You're absolutely right, but why didn't the Governor or Mayor use those buses they PARKED up by the levees they KNEW wouldn't hold in the first place to evacuate all those people that couldn't evacuate for themselves???? The buses were parked and left, some with the keys in them (because the looters later took the ones that weren't flooded on joy rides), 2 whole days BEFORE the storm even hit which means they had a total of 4 to evacuate all those indigent people. 2 days before and the 2 days or so before the levees finally broke AFTER the storm.
Yet during those same 2 days AFTER the storm before the city was totally flooded and you could've gotten people out in those buses, they were too busy with their finger up their butt and whining about Bush come help me come help me.
The interstate leading out of the city has like 6-8 lanes across (using both north and south bound at the same time) that could have been used going one way out of the city to evacuate. They didn't even do that. If you have a mandatory evacuation out of a city, why the hell do you need an open road coming INTO the city? Leave one freaking lane to let locals come home and use the rest to get people out. In all the pictures I've seen of the evacuation days before the storm hit, all the lanes leading out are bumper-to-bumper and the opposing side is totally deserted......how's that make sense?
I guess Bush shoulda gone down there and put on a reflective vest and directed traffic himself too....... :jerkit:
Local gov't dropped the ball point blank. This wasn't a terrorist attack the White house should've known about. It was a freaking Cat 5 Hurricane that had been being watched for more than a week from the time it formed thousands of miles away to the time it hit.
Whos gonan drive the buses? Half of the city left, they had buses / flights to leave N.O. I know this b/c my cousins left by plane and car form NO. But that fri most ppl sstarted leaving, and the city soemwhat shut down, and than the great escape began. About half of the ppl who stayed said the same thing... "They told us to go to the superdome and convention center and we will be safe" Well thousand s and thousands of ppl went, and what happen? No help,, ppl starving to death by the hudreds in the USA on TV? Cmon that shit doesnt happen in the US as cocky as it sounds, but its true.
You said it yourself:
"This wasn't a terrorist attack the White house should've known about. It was a freaking Cat 5 Hurricane that had been being watched for more than a week from the time it formed thousands of miles away to the time it hit."
Everything shoudl have been ready Cat 5 hurricanes are extrme natural disasters. And Natural Disasters are handled by FEMA, which is ran by the government. The governor was pissed, b/c they kept telling him help is coming but it nve came? Think about it we were watching on TV, ppl dieng starving begging for help for 3 days. Yes they were rescuing ppl from roofs, and etc. Monday they said "troops are coming" when did the troops come thursday. If you are in control of a country, and you see on TV, that thisiis happening you should be outraged. I dont know why u say they shouldnt take the blame, i mean when bush's own cabinet has a meeting with themselves to discuss what went wrong and how bad they handled the situation, there is a problem. Why must you all insist on acting like everyone could leave. all of a sudden your asked to get up and just go, go where? youve got nothin to began with, and barely paying rent as si, and now you have to just leave? Form my family members own mouth, they were told several places to ride out the storm, Superdome - COnvention Center - Hurricane Evac Center across the river and other random safe points, and help would be there after the storm......well luckily they didnt they had the funds to get out of there and get to houston with my aunt and other family. But look what happen to the ppl who did go and wait for help.
Do you honestly think the ppl begging and pleading for help , that thought lets not leave lets stay and loot..?
im still waiting to hear what has improved or not gotten worse in the US in the last 6 years? I ask that question as a open minded unbiased person
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