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02-09-2005, 12:44 AM

Mark Anderson wrote:
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.

After they get them out they will rebuild a city that is below sea level
and will another day be a target for another hurricane.

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Travis in Shoreline Washington