Out of curiosity, how would MORE police and paramedics stuck in the city with no gas or communcations have been better?
I didn't say anything about additional police or paramedics.
Also, mobilizing the relief BEFORE the hurricane has stopped actively destroying the city could seem rather dangerous.
I also did not suggest that relief should have been mobilized while the hurricane was actively hitting the cities. I agree with you, that would have been assinine. However, from all news sources that I have seen or heard (including the radio interview with the mayor of New Orleans), it appears that tucks carrying supplies and buses to help transport out the victims only began to arrive in full force today.
Also, how do you know they WEREN'T drawing up plans to help the place?
Fair enough. You are correct. I do not know that they were not drawing up plans. But if plans were in place, they were either piss-poor plans or piss-poorly executed.
Also, it seems very possible that many folks just didn't properly grasp the concept of what a hurricane this powerful would do.
Perhaps, but many folks did. There were projections of the worst possible case scenario. Weather experts were predicting the distinct possibility of Very Bad Things. Sure, it was possible that it could have taken a different path, and I firmly believe that those paths should have been planned for as well.
I'm not suggesting that the National Guard should have been sitting at the city limits of Biloxi and New Orleans, ready to charge in as soon as the last storm cloud rolled away, but the overall response of our national agencies has been absolutely pathetic. Aid has been too slow in coming. We watched this thing coming in across the Gulf, and be it a category 3, 4, or 5, it should simply not have taken four days to deliver clean water.
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I didn't say anything about additional police or paramedics.
Also, mobilizing the relief BEFORE the hurricane has stopped actively destroying the city could seem rather dangerous.
I also did not suggest that relief should have been mobilized while the hurricane was actively hitting the cities. I agree with you, that would have been assinine. However, from all news sources that I have seen or heard (including the radio interview with the mayor of New Orleans), it appears that tucks carrying supplies and buses to help transport out the victims only began to arrive in full force today.
Also, how do you know they WEREN'T drawing up plans to help the place?
Fair enough. You are correct. I do not know that they were not drawing up plans. But if plans were in place, they were either piss-poor plans or piss-poorly executed.
Also, it seems very possible that many folks just didn't properly grasp the concept of what a hurricane this powerful would do.
Perhaps, but many folks did. There were projections of the worst possible case scenario. Weather experts were predicting the distinct possibility of Very Bad Things. Sure, it was possible that it could have taken a different path, and I firmly believe that those paths should have been planned for as well.
I'm not suggesting that the National Guard should have been sitting at the city limits of Biloxi and New Orleans, ready to charge in as soon as the last storm cloud rolled away, but the overall response of our national agencies has been absolutely pathetic. Aid has been too slow in coming. We watched this thing coming in across the Gulf, and be it a category 3, 4, or 5, it should simply not have taken four days to deliver clean water.