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01-09-2005, 11:18 PM

In article says...
What really makes wonder is that FEMA is part of the department of homeland
security. If this is the best that the DHS can do, after 4 years of issuing
all kinds of threat notices, color alerts and other lunacy, what will happen
when some terrorist manages to launch another surprise attack?

FEMA and Homeland Security are a joke and this situation proves it.
What's the point of dispatching buses for 25,000 people? Are they
insane? If the buses can get in and out of the Superdome than I would
have thought that people could walk the same path and get out too.
Wouldn't it had been simpler to force everyone who could walk to walk
and reserve the buses for those that can't? All they had to do is set
up a spot along the interstate and turn it into a temporary tent city
with generators, food, water, and lots and lots of portapotties that
could be easily supplied. Point people to the Superdome and out to the
tent city and make them walk. It is ludicrous that they had these
people wait there for buses. One must wonder where all the billions
that Homeland Security spends if they didn't even have a contingency
plan for something everyone knew one day was going to happen. NOLA had
a scare last year and everyone talked about the entire city flooding.
And when it floods every single official had their head stuck firmly up
their ass looking into the cameras like a deer caught in the headlights.
They did virtually nothing for 3 days while these people sat at the
Superdome without food, water, or toilets. What kind of idiots are
running things down there?! Coming up with some sensible plan to get
these people out isn't rocket science.