Subj : Re: It seems not everyone shares the "Blame Bush All The Way" viewpoint...
To   : alt.tv.farscape
From : John I
Date : Tue Sep 06 2005 18:17:25

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape

NotSinatra wrote:

>>>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. 


Sorry, but Clinton transformed FEMA into a professional FEMA.  It was working 
very well until little george took over.



> 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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