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Looks like this movie was released on 2006 and I'm sure many people have seen it. I just finished it and I thought I would put out a reminder on how important it is to prepare and know a little history of things that might come to pass. If you haven't seen it, enjoy. Very timely indeed.
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Just keep in mind that no one has ever come out and publicly placed the blame on the stupid leeches that refused to evacuate, but instead found the need to loot irresistible. Expect (in any Katrina documentary) to hear lots of blame games, but it never was the fault of the "victims" that they found themselves in their predicament. Someone should have saved them...:mad:This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave. ~Elmer Davis -
I do agree. I also can see that not everyone could make it out being crippled or just poor. Definitely a bad situation, and one we can learn from. Everything just went bad on general.Originally posted by tech View PostComment
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Actually, the entire responsibility for the fiasco in New Orleans rests with the mayor of New Orleans, Ray Nagin. President Bush declared southeastern Louisiana a disaster area 2 days prior to Katrina making landfall and Nagin had access to all of the city's school buses to help evacuate an estimated 20,000 poor and crippled but he strayed from the the 2000 edition of the southeast Louisiana evacuation plan on page 13, paragraph 5 states:Originally posted by arthurstjames View Post
5. The primary means of hurricane evacuation will be personal vehicles. School and municipal buses, government-owned vehicles and vehicles provided by volunteer agencies may be used to provide transportation for individuals who lack transportation and require assistance in evacuating.
Plans usually need to be tweaked after first contact with the enemy or reality but they are particularly useless when you ignore them altogether."One cannot but ponder the question: what if the Arabs had been Christians? To me it seems certain that the fatalistic teachings of Mohammed and the utter degradation of women is the outstanding cause for the arrested development of the Arab. He is exactly what he was around the year 700, while we have kept on developing. Here, I think, is a text for some eloquent sermon on the virtues of Christianity." - General George S. Patton, diary, June 9, 1943.Comment
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Nagin was negligent, certainly. But it wasn't *entirely* his fault. Many were just too busy looting and being criminals in general (illicit drug use, murder, rape, theft, etc) to care about evacuation. The usual gibmedats...
BTW, I'll be happy to see him [Nagin] sit in jail a while :)This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave. ~Elmer DavisComment
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I totally agree with that as well, he was negligent for sure. Basically no leadership and management. Even FIMA, when that doctor made it to the outskirts of town with his patient and there were miles of ambulances and support staff waiting there. Sitting and waiting! That told me right there, don't ever rely on government. What a joke!Originally posted by tech View PostComment
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