Quote Originally Posted by JITB
how do u get anyone to drive when the whole city is evacuated? Since when do local emergency crew stand alone against natural disasters, especailly when there was atleast 2 weeks notice like you said yourself. There was plenty of warning like u said, everyone knew what it was gonna do, LIKE U SAID.. Sooo why couldnt FEMA get their shit together and get prepared. You expect a million plus ppl to leave a city in a weeks notice, but its too much to ask to have a little backup form the government/FEMA and help with it especially since there was a weeks notice.

Again, they should of used the buses when there were people THERE to drive them. How'd the buses get there? Not by themselves, right? Then why couldn't you of used the time it took to coordinate the massive parking of hundreds of city buses in one place to evacuate people while you could?

FEMA is NOT responsible to get "their shit together" FIRST.....it is LOCAL emergency people that do that. Why can't yall get that thru your head yet? LEGALLY it is, period. Until they ASK for help, FEMA CAN'T give it. It's not that difficult. Why is everybody blaming FEMA and totally glossing over the people that were in charge FIRST and REFUSED help when it could've made a bigger difference????


Theres no blame for noone evacuating, the problem was the HELP for the ppl that couldnt evacuate and the ones that went to the dome/convention center for help..
Wrong. Who sent them to the Superdome? The Governor and Mayor when they went on TV and ordered a MANDATORY evacuation, yet THEY had not contingency plan in mind for when thousands of people listened yet they had NO supplies to tend to them. Why the hell send thousands of people supposedly to be safe, yet have NOTHING for them to be safe with????


eventually? what kind of chain of caommand is that?, in the beginning it is handled by the local gov't (or it should be) you said it yourself. That the local's handle things before the gov't gets involved, and if its too much as this was it goes to the next level.

local gov't says we need help,

gov't officials says get everyone to the dome and help will get there

get to the dome whats there? nothing..
Whose fault is that? If the chain is Local->FEMA, then how could FEMA be held MORE responsible than local???

If YOU send thousands of people over National TV to a place, shouldn't you have been prepared for those thousands of people? What's FEMA got to do with that? Why didn't they truck in supplies in those 2 days they had BEFORE the storm finally hit to that Superdome they already KNEW was part of the evacuation plan???


you say u know how soem ppl cant get around, but u say that they oculd have just went 20 more miles north.. im confised?
Not confusing at all.

If they can't walk but yet GOT to the Superdome somehow, how come they couldn't use the same method to keep going on further inland? They didn't teleport there did they? They didn't spontaneously appear at the dome did they?



The focus is being focused on govt b/c you take control of situations and when people look up to you for answers, and u have noone why are u here?
Let me give you an example:

A young lady gets a flat tire on the hwy. You pull over and do the chivalrous and RIGHT thing and offer to change her flat for her. She is on the cell phone and tells you, "Let me get back to you on that". You then say, "OK" and sit back down in your car. An hour later, you're tired of waiting and drive off. A car comes by and accidentally clips the back end of her car because he didn't see her stranded. A week later you get a letter in the mail from her attorney suing YOU for NOT helping her when you first pulled over and therefore it is YOUR fault she got her car smashed.

Is that fair to YOU? You TRIED to do the right thing, but got turned away. Something THEN happened and now she is trying to blame YOU for it instead of taking personal responsability and admitting SHE messed up. Right or wrong? How's that any different, except on a grander scale, to what happened in Louisiana?



you cant class the fools who take useless items, with the ones that were beggin or food. Those are a whole different type of idiots. Saying somthing like "they should have left instead of looting" is just as ignorant as anything.

Not when you consider that if they are healthy enough to wade thru infested waters to steal they are healthy enough to have gotten out of town.

You are right about stereotyping though. I just get ticked when, just like I saw during an "investigative" report type show on TV, that they interviewed idiots who were saying "we need food, we need help" only to turn literally right around and wade thru the water to steal SNEAKERS. That aint right.