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Why wasnt the govt better prepared with this hurricane?
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you should check p&n, there's some blurb about how FEMA warn Bush about the possible disaster with the hurricane back a few years ago, and Bush slashed hurricane funding for New Orleans anyway in 2003.
not Bush's fault imho, should've cut the funding from Florida and Texas instead. lol.
They were doing that. They had 16 different staging areas of relief vehicles, supplies, etc. However, due to lack of communications, having to rescue people from rooftops, and the roads being cut-off or impassable it made it hard to get down there. Plus, this is a large area we are talking about. All the way from Mobile to New Orleans need rescue workers and supplies.
I think any able bodied man is going to have the opportunity to pick up a LOT of work in the N.O. area by joining a construction crew. They are going to be desperate for labor, even of the unskilled variety. But, of course, that would involve actual work, some of it might even be hard work, and the sort of people that would sit on the porch and complain about not getting handouts are not the sort of people that would willing engage in hard work, even for high wages.
Because the closer you stage your support equipment to the expected disaster area(s) the more likely it is to be destroyed by the hurricane. Not to mention you don't necesarrily know where the hurricane is going to hit until it's too late to move all the supplies you'll need. There are currently well over 50,000 people just at the Superdome in New Orleans alone. Now think about all the other people in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama. There are *NO* roads going into most of these places. You don't know which roads are closed because of fallen trees, which ones have been washed away, how many bridges are out, etc until you get there. Then you have to fix those (one at a time) or find winding path through all of the towns and roads to get to the major population centers. Now what do you with all of the people in the small towns you are passing through to get to the major cities? You have to leave people and supplies at EVERY town you pass through. That saps a LOT of resources.
Sending supplies by air has it's own problems. You can't do it by plane (where will the aircraft land)? You can't use helicopters becuase they are needed for rescue operations and frankly they cannot move enough supplies to be effective quickly. Even if you manage to land a bunch of supplies at the airport (the New Orleans airport is now back open), how do you distribute food and supplies from there? Any equipment that was there is now destroyed.
The Navy is moving several ships into the region, which is definately the way to go because you can transport a LOT of supplies even on a small destroyer. But ships are slow and they couldn't leave dock until they were loaded and the hurricane had left the region.
Add to all of this the fact that you have psychos shooting at rescue workers and you'll see why things are going slow. Believe me, there are a lot of smart dedicated people working VERY hard on this.
Planning for this stuff is REALLY REALLY hard.
Dave <-- used to work with the Red Cross in planing for these types things
Sending supplies by air has it's own problems. You can't do it by plane (where will the aircraft land)? You can't use helicopters becuase they are needed for rescue operations and frankly they cannot move enough supplies to be effective quickly. Even if you manage to land a bunch of supplies at the airport (the New Orleans airport is now back open), how do you distribute food and supplies from there? Any equipment that was there is now destroyed.
The Navy is moving several ships into the region, which is definately the way to go because you can transport a LOT of supplies even on a small destroyer. But ships are slow and they couldn't leave dock until they were loaded and the hurricane had left the region.
Add to all of this the fact that you have psychos shooting at rescue workers and you'll see why things are going slow. Believe me, there are a lot of smart dedicated people working VERY hard on this.
Planning for this stuff is REALLY REALLY hard.
Dave <-- used to work with the Red Cross in planing for these types things
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