Subj : Re: Hurricane recovery
To   : Richardw
From : Finnigann
Date : Mon Sep 12 2005 07:10 pm

-=> Richardw wrote to Finnigann <=-

 Ri>   Re: Re: Hurricane recovery
 Ri>   By: Finnigann to Richardw on Mon Sep 12 2005 03:16 pm

 > -=> Richardw wrote to Finnigann <=-
 >
 >  Ri>   Re: Re: Hurricane recovery
 >  Ri>   By: Finnigann to richardw on Fri Sep 09 2005 09:02 pm
 >
 >  > -=> richardw wrote to Newborn <=-
 >  >
 >  >  ri>   Re: Re: Hurricane recovery
 >  >  ri>   By: Newborn to richardw on Fri Sep 09 2005 01:00 am
 >  >
 >  >  >  >  >  > Perhaps local law enforcement might not have been so warn-out
 >  >  >  >  >  > standing along side of him. Police handleing the law and the
 >  >  >  >  >  > him up. Sounds good to me.
 >  >  >  >  >
 >  >  >  >  >   Utimately this is what happened, it just took the bureacy (loc
 >  >  >  >  >   federal) a while to figure it out.  I really think 'lumping' F
 >  >  >  >  >   basket as Homeland security is a griveous error.  FEMA should
 >  >  >  >  >   agency responsibile for NATURAL disaster ONLY.  With a separat
 >  >  >  >  >   a leader that has experience with coping with natural disaster
 >  >  >  >
 >  >  >  > I disagree.  We need one response team capable of dealing with what
 >  >  >  > disaster comes along.  The response is similiar *irregardless* of t
 >  >  >  > cause.  Provide a means of evacuation, food, medicine, shelter, and
 >  >  >  > apparently some baby-sitting at gun-point may be required as well.
 >  >  >  >
 >  >  >  > I don't see the need to fund 2 seperate agencies.  Everybody today
 >  >  >  > to think we need a BIGGER government than the monolith we have now!
 >  >  >  > ugh!
 >  >  >
 >  >  >    FEMA doesn't have to be concerned with ongoing acts of terrorism, s
 >  >  >    as radioaactive (atomic) or chemical acts that homeland security wo
 >  >  >    have to handle.  Natural disasters are quite different and require
 >  >  >    experienced in handling the problems they present.  It may not requ
 >  >  >    different agency, but, each department should  have it's own  leade
 >  >  >    structure.  Just my personal opinion....
 >  >
 >  >  ri> We're talking about _response_ teams.  FEMA should be concerned with
 >  >  ri> responding to an act of terrorism, be it evacuation or whatever.
 >  >  ri> Intelligence agencies should be concerned with _preventing_ acts of
 >  >  ri> terrorism.  As I said above, the response to an act of terrorism is
 >  >  ri> going to be very similiar to the response for a natural disaster.  T
 >  >  ri> same basic needs will apply.
 >  >
 >  > Like the WTC and Katrina are similar?
 >  >
 >  > Besides they have to plan a national response which is no small task.
 >
 > Yes.  They are both disasters.  The difference being, in the WTC, there were
 > survivors to be rescued.
 >
 > 9/11 is more than the WTC. some of the folks at the Pentagon did survive. An
 > alot of people were saved at the WTC too. Fast acting first responders that
 > themselves in harms way so that many others could live totell about it.

 Ri> This is true... however, it was not the "feds" who were the first
 Ri> responders. ---

Didn't say it had to be, but they had a plan. And if needed, there should be a
back up. A huricane is a large area disrupter. No single city can handle it,
nor even a single state. As we have already determined, resources from outlying
areas should have been standing by to move at the first signal it being safe to
do so.

That's the way it appears to me.

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