🚀 go-pugleaf

dashaun345@aol.com wrote:
> Mike Smith wrote:
>
> > On 5 Sep 2005 09:04:56 -0400, adykes@panix.com (Al Dykes) wrote:
> >
> > >And when Bush made the declaration FEMA trucks should have rolled from
> > >all over the country to get there just after the storm passed. Below
> > >is the text from the DHS web sites describing the proactive steps
> > >the president s to take.
> > >
> > >
> > >Bush failed us before the hurricane, during the hurricane and after the hurricane.
> > >
> > >Where is AWOL Bush?
> >
> > No one really needs go any further with this mindless and idiotic
> > rant. However I do love pointing out the stupidity of journalists...
> >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >[1] BBC News has learned that FEMA officials deliberately prevented
> > >    major convoys of heavy lorries carrying water, food, medicine, and
> > >    other supplies essential for the survival of victims, from
> > >    reaching towns and cities suffering in the aftermath Hurricane
> > >    Katrina.
> >
> > Too bad this buffoon didn't realize that a hurricane does leave tons
> > of debris on the roads after it leaves. Of course, the magic pixies
> > could have waved their wands and miraculously made all the debris
> > disappear, but no one thought to ask...
> >
> > Instead, they removed the debris from all the roads the old-fashioned
> > way... with bulldozers and backhoes and man power... After all the
> > debris was removed, the trucks could get into the city.
>
> It was hard work.  And the blocked roads kept
> helicopters from lowering water and food to people
> stranded at the Convention Center and at the Superdome.
>

No, the fact that all available helicopters were in use rescuing people
who were still holding on to trees near death and those clinging to
rooftops kept them for lowering food to the people at the convention
center and the superdome.  The choppers that were flying in close to
the center of the city trying to rescue people there were being shot
at, which didn't help much, either.

My heart goes out to the folks at the Superdome and the convention
center - but they were at least alive and dry.  In a disaster of
biblical proportions like this, the initial priority is to rescue and
save those near death rather than improve the comfort of the living -
sorry to burst that liberal wet dream your clinging to.

mj