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<wrcowan1@hal-pc.org> wrote in message
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> Obwon wrote:
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> > As the National Guard delivered food to the New Orleans
> > convention center yesterday, American Red Cross
> > officials said that federal emergency management
> > authorities would not allow them to do the same.
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> The National Guard was the one controling the roads and not FEMA.
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> > Other relief agencies say the area is so damaged and
> > dangerous that they doubted they could conduct mass
> > feeding there now.
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> Could this be the reason why people who came down to help were not
> allowed to do so?  Off course it is the reason.
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> > "The Homeland Security Department has requested and
> > continues to request that the American Red Cross not
> > come back into New Orleans," said Renita Hosler,
> > spokeswoman for the Red Cross.
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> > "Right now access is controlled by the National Guard
> > and local authorities. We have been at the table every
> > single day [asking for access]. We cannot get into New
> > Orleans against their orders."
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> There it is the National Guard, controlled by the Govenor and not the
> Federal Government, controlled access to the city.
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> > Though frustrated, Hosler understood the reasons. The
> > goal is to move people out of an uninhabitable city,
> > and relief operations might keep them there. Security
> > is so bad that she fears feeding stations might get
> > ransacked.
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> Hmmm, another good reason to keep the masss of volunteers out.

Yeah that's a good reason....why not send in troops with the food stations
and help the people who were not causing trouble....you know, that 90% who
just wanted to live....nice plan there georgie...

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> > Obstacles in downtown New Orleans have stymied rescuers
> > who got there. The Salvation Army has two of its
> > officers trapped with more than 200 people -- three
> > requiring dialysis -- in its own downtown building.
> > They were alerted by a 30-second plea for food and
> > water before the phone went dead.
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> > On Wednesday, The Salvation Army rented three boats for
> > a rescue operation. They knew the situation was
> > desperate, and that their own people were inside, said
> > Maj. Donna Hood, associate director of development for
> > the Army.
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> > "The boats couldn't get through," she said. Although
> > she doesn't know the details, she believes huge debris
> > and electrical wires made passage impossible.
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> If boasts had trouble getting in the nvehicular traffic would have the
> same trouble.

Ummm...no...there were many roads that were not under water.....and tehy
could have made it to the damn superdome before it became thunderdome....

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> > Because New Orleans remains under water, it is
> > different from other cities where Katrina struck
> > harder, but where relief efforts are proceeding
> > normally. Agencies place workers and supplies outside
> > disaster areas before storms, to move in quickly. But
> > there are always delays, Burton said, because nothing
> > is deployed until experts survey the damage and decide
> > where to most effectively put relief services.
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> Again another reason why it took time to get any amount of supplies in
> and people out.

Meanwhile just let the people die until we do a "study" of what's
needed....here's a free clue FOOD AND WATER!!

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> > After Katrina, he thought he would have to airlift a
> > feeding unit to one isolated town, but a road was
> > cleared, he said. He doubts that dropping a kitchen
> > into the New Orleans' poisoned waters, filled with raw
> > sewage, dead bodies and possible industrial
> > contaminants, would do any good. It made sense to
> > prepare meals outside the area and truck them in or
> > bring people out.
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> Logistics is a taks that so many do not understand.  If you are having
> trouble feeding those who are in the city already, think about the
> problems that would be encountered if you let every group that wanted to
> help in?  They would have problems with getting food, water, sanitation
> and someplace to sleeep.

Or they would have there own food...since that was what they were
bringing...they could have shit in the street like everyone else....and I
seriously doubt anyone would have been sleeping in the first 48 hours...

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> MRC