Subj : Re: Astrodome
To   : alt.tv.farscape
From : Nick
Date : Mon Sep 05 2005 21:33:38

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape

Jim Larson wrote:

> Anyone heard anything about the security situation there?
> 
> I'd like to think no one was stupid enough to forget about this
> after recent events, but that whole "benefit of the doubt" thing
> hasn't worked out so well to date.
> 
> For that matter, does anyone know why it was impossible to drop a
> few hundred armed National Guard into the Superdome the day after
> the hurricane to head off the nightmare that followed?


The word I have heard is that of the first three truckloads of national 
guard that were sent in to help, two of them broke down and none of 
them were armed or had supplies.

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