Subj : Re: It seems not everyone shares the "Blame Bush All The Way" viewpoint...
To   : alt.tv.farscape
From : NotSinatra
Date : Tue Sep 06 2005 14:14:18

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape

>>The problem many people, including me, are having with the pres and
>>his peeps is that they are only responding NOW! Every climatologist, 
>>geologist, environmental planner and TV weatherman knew this was
>>coming 5 DAYS before it hit 
> 
> 
> 5 days before it hit it was a category 1 hurricane.
> Next time there is a tropical storm I want you to tell me where it will 
> hit and how strong it will be in 5 days.

I couldn't, but every computer model run after it passed over Florida 
had it hitting the Gulf coast as a cat 3 or 4. It's true no one could 
have known it would strike exactly where it did, but ANY cat 3 or 4 
hurricane on the Gulf coast is going to be a BIG problem, and 
preparations should have been started.

Even if you don't start five days out, by three days out they were 90% 
sure where it would land, response - nothing, two days out they were 95% 
sure where it would land - still nada.

While I admit to being no great fan of GW. Even I can't lay this all at 
his doorstep. FEMA has been gutted by every president since Reagan. 
Slowly turning it from a genuine emergency management system into a 
"free money for idiots who build beach houses on sandbars" fund. The 
integration into DHS was just the nail in the coffin.

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