Subj : Re: Astrodome
To   : alt.tv.farscape
From : Jim Larson
Date : Mon Sep 05 2005 22:33:53

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape

Nick wrote:

> 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.
> 

(I was just being flippant. Flippancy rocks!)

-- 
Jim

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