Re: Re: By the way, Bill

Bill,

The Scientific American had written back in 2001 that the "big one" was going to happen sooner or later :

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa006&articleID=00060286-CB58-1315-8B5883414B7F0000

Cheers,
Deepak


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: William Highfield 
  To: [email protected] 
  Sent: Monday, September 05, 2005 6:34 PM
  Subject: Re: [CAT23-Achat] Re: By the way, Bill


  Peter,

  The only problem with your idea is that they need a limited number of 
  trained professionals to rebuild levees - not a mob of untrained 
  citizens in some sort of "new deal" government program.  There's no time 
  to wait for the untrained to get trained.  They might consider 
  "volunteering" to do what you mentioned.  It's what happened in Florida 
  after Charlie, Franic and Irene hit us.  Everyone in our neighborhood 
  was out cleaning up garbage and cutting down fallen trees for over a 
  week without power, in the heat of summer, until we could at least 
  navigate down the steets.  I had a generator, and stored the neighbor's 
  milk in our fridge so their kids had some to eat.  We didn't get milk 
  and perishables for 5 or 6 days after Charlie.  But people have to 
  forget about their past lives, and work together to rebuild - wherever 
  they are.  I don't see that happening in New Orleans based on current 
  events.

  As far as spending money on levees, the levees that broke HAD been 
  upgraded already, so those once again trying to shift the blame to the 
  Iraq war need to put that one to rest.  No amount of flood defence was 
  going to work after a 25 ft storm surge hit an area 7 feet below sea 
  level, followed by all of the rain upstream on the Mississippi.  New 
  Orleans has known for over 30 years that it was living on borrowed time, 
  and they did NOTHING to prepare their city for "the big one".

  The mayor of New Orleans is a moron, didn't follow his own emergency 
  plans, and left 400 buses to be buried by water (check the satellite 
  photos) instead of using them to evacuate the poor.  Then he evacuates 
  his wealthy buddies staying in the Hyatt  first, letting them cut in 
  line  to the buses ahead of the poor after the levees broke (which if a 
  republican did would have been all over the news).  He condoned looting 
  only hours after the storm, and now claims that the CIA is going to 
  assassinate him.  He's a loser, a moron and a kook.

  Governor Blanco is not much better.  She failed to order the evacuation 
  in a timely matter losing a precious 24 hours before the storm hit.  She 
  failed to pre-position the national guard.  She STILL has yet to declare 
  a state emergency so the Feds can coordinate the recuse and recovery 
  efforts.  She also condoned looting - at first - but fortunately, by day 
  three, realized her error.  (Yes, people will loot for basic necessities 
  after a catastrophe, but you don't tell them it's okay to loot only 
  hours after the storm ... they weren't going to starve to death the 
  first day!) She's playing politics and pointing fingers instead of 
  declaring the emergency as Alabama, Mississippi and Florida did 24 hours 
  BEFORE the storm hit those states.

  Finally, you have that incompetent numbnuts from FEMA, Mike Brown.  
  Granted, he's not getting a lot a cooperation from the other two, but he 
  has made some of the dumber statements I have heard in a while, and 
  frankly, when the governor and mayor dragged their feet, he should have 
  been screaming to the press to force them to act.   Bush needs to fire 
  him - now.

  Florida's been through a lot of hurricanes, and has the proceedure down 
  pretty good after the quadruple whammy we took last year.  We didn't 
  have any riots, looting or garbage like that in our devestated areas.  
  We didn't shoot at rescuers.  Hell, last night there was a firefight 
  between cops and US Army Corps of Engineers on one side and a gang of 
  armed thugs who attacked them on the other.  WHY IN HELL would you shoot 
  at guys trying to fix the levees?  I mean, it's beyond the pale.  Such 
  things did not happen in Florida, even during Andrew.  But they happen 
  in New Orleans.

  New Orleans was a crooked city filled with crime and corruption before 
  the storm hit.  It was well known then, and the rest of the country is 
  finding out about it now.  One of the highest murder and crime rates in 
  the nation, and what happens?  Looting started BEFORE the hurricane hit. 
  People are raped in killed in the Superdome because the city government 
  didn't put cops in there to watch 20,000 people.  There would be more 
  cops at a rock concert or sporting event than those idiots in N.O. city 
  government put in the Superdome.  After the storm, rescue helicopters 
  are shot at, hospitals are looted, 200 cops abandoned their posts, and 
  there's even video of NOPD officers looting a Walmart.

  New Orleans is a disgrace, and when the rescues are complete, that 
  entire city government and police force need to be cleaned up.  I'd 
  suggest Rudy Guiliani for the job.  We did it in New York before 9/11, 
  he needs to go in , clean the political house, and get to rebuilding New 
  Orleans and the suburbs...


  Bill Highfield
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