Subj : Re: Astrodome
To   : alt.tv.farscape
From : Nick
Date : Mon Sep 05 2005 22:44:15

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape

Jim Larson wrote:

> 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!)
> 

Flip this, rock boy!

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