Re: Re: By the way, Bill

There are disasters and then there are DISASTERS.  You simply can never 
be ready for devestation on this level.  However, Louisiana could have 
been better prepared.  I don't think they had the national guard 
prepared at all, and yes, 30% of them are in Iraq, but plenty remained 
and frankly, ALL OF THEM should have been at staging areas ready to move 
in the moment the winds died down.

In Florida, the National Guard was ready in every hurricane after 
Andrew.  After Charlie, I remember seeing troops in the streets of St 
Cloud at intersections only a couple of hours after the eye passed over 
my house.

The problem with Katrina is that the hurricane came and went and the 
levees held.  Officials in Louisiana failed to take into account that 
weakened levees would not handle the flow of water coming down the 
Mississippi AFTER the hurricane.

FEMA will take it's lumps, no doubt about it.  But Louisiana was not 
prepared, and the mayor of New Oreleans and governor of the state should 
be ashamed of themselves for trying to blame everyone but themselves.

-- 
Bill Highfield
St Cloud, Florida, USA!

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