Subj : Re: Ok, NOW Brownie resigns To : alt.tv.farscape From : TNW7Z7Z7Z12345 Date : Wed Sep 14 2005 02:16:03 From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape John Iwaniszek wrote: > > Nick wrote in news:Xns96D0ABC8812A1ndtcm@ > 68.1.17.6: > > > Ken McElhaney wrote: > >> TNW7Z7Z7Z12345 wrote: > >> > >>> When revamped under Clinton, FEMA had disaster experts who > >>> immediately explained all options/procedures to state and local > >>> officials, who can't possibly know every detail of how to get > >>> help from the federal bureaucracy. > >> > >> And now, FEMA is under the department of Homeland Security. > >> > >>> And yes, state and local officials screwed things up (and that > >>> will come out in an investigation), > >> > >> I really hope so since their decisions helped lead to the disaster > >> that happened. > > > > What decisions are you talking about? > > > >>> The big > >>> issue in NYC was communication failures. Blanco begged FEMA for > >>> phones and didn't get them for days. > >> > >> But that doesn't explain why Blanco was so late in moving her > >> national guard into New Orleans. If she truly was not in control > >> and couldn't contact them, she should've told Bush to federalize > >> them and make them his responsability. > > > > You know the National Guard is made up of regular guys who are at > > home riding out a hurricane themselves. They have power go out and > > phone lines go down and get flooded just like anyone else. > > > > > >>> More important here's a very long and detailed chronology of > >>> events that spares no one. > >>> > >>> >>> 0,2153804.story?page=1&coll=la-home-headlines> > >>> > >>> or > >> > >> Yea, that one is pretty bad. It assumes that once Chertoff made > >> the declaration, federal aid, troops, and supplies would appear > >> instantly. Besides, isn't the state national guard STILL under > >> Blanco's control? > > > > Again, the national guard troops don't just appear instantly either. > > In fact, I would expect an active duty unit to beat a national guard > > unit to the scene since they are already mobilized. > > > > I think I heard that the Guard unit that wound up at the Superdome was > chased there after the Levee broke and their station and a lot of their > equipment got washed away. The NYTimes chronology stated: "The Louisiana National Guard, already stretched by the deployment of more than 3,000 troops to Iraq, was hampered when its New Orleans barracks flooded. It lost 20 vehicles that could have carried soldiers through the watery streets and had to abandon much of its most advanced communications equipment, guard officials said." Below is the URL for the entire NYTimes article; it's pretty good. Discusses some of the issues surrounding the military/guard, buses, etc. or - TNW [To e-mail me, remove 12345 from my address.] .