Subj : Re: Astrodome
To   : alt.tv.farscape
From : Nick
Date : Mon Sep 05 2005 22:22:44

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape

Jim Larson wrote:

> Nick wrote:
> 
>> 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. 
> 
> Ah...brilliant logistics. Should have known.
> 

I think they really didn't know what to expect.  Speaking as a former 
national guardsman, I never brought a weapon into any type of flood 
or other natural disaster.  It is mostly just piling sandbags.

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