First, security is not a major problem, so stop making it an excuse. Second, you obviously have no concept of what goes in to disaster preperation on the scale we are talking about.
doesnt address my post. what we are seeing now is disaster relief not disaster preparation. why were there not helicopters in the sky with sandbags to plug levee breaches as soon as the storm passed? my lack of knowledge of what went into disaster preparation in this disaster is exactly what i want to alleviate
even the mayor of NO at one point was exasperated with the lack of response to the levee breaches ("too many cooks in the kitchen" was his quote i believe). certainly the mayor himself couldve been uninformed too. but the last news i read said that helicopters were going to be used to plug the breaches and then were diverted to sar operations. and this was several days after the hurricane had already passed. i also read articles about them acquiring or preparing the sandbags for deployment, again several days later
this makes me assume certain things:
1. the helicopters needed to plug the breach had to be acquired after the breaches had occured
2. the sandbags needed to plug the breach had to be acquired after the breaches had occured
3. even after everything was ready, a lack of effective planning delayed the process even more
in my mind this seems to be an example of poor planning. the helicopters and sandbags necessary to plug any potential breach in the levees shouldve been a contingency plan for NO years ago, with firm plans setup days before the hurricane landed. those helicopters should have been fueled and provisioned and ready to plug any breaches before the storm hit. those helicopters shouldve been in the air hours after the breach, not days. even assuming it took days, those helicopters shouldve had a clear objective that could not be derailed conflicting objectives
perhaps the picture ive been getting from news sources is the distorted one, and these delays were unavoidable, thats kind of why i posted here for clarification
as for security, im not sure exactly what effect its having, i know its not possible to perfectly secure anything, but in another post someone said that evacuation is slowed because of fear of mass hysteria as buses arrive. at CNN there are two videos one entitled "Watch report on violence delaying evacuation" and "Fema scaling back evactuation," i havent watched either yet but they are suggestive. on a stickied thread above i see "9/1: FEMA SUSPENDS RESCUE OPERATIONS!! Situation too dangerous." i read reports from the NO Convention Center (from a Spainish MP) about how the National Guard walks by but no one is actually in the Center to direct people and control crowds when the busses come to evacuate people. CNNs front page right now speaks of thousands of refugees confronting a thin line of troops. is it simply sensationalist adjectives? certainly there shouldve been enough personnel to control the busiest evacuation points.
~Zippy!
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