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Originally posted by FireFly@Sep 6 2005, 08:46 PM
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@Sep 6 2005, 02:30 PM
And the Mayor of New York says he would never leave anyone behind. . . . . perhaps implying the Mayor Of New Orleans did.
Bloomberg noted that city cops and firefighters regularly practice dealing with a range of natural disasters and would not be caught flatfooted.
He also emphasized that the city would assume responsibility for taking care of poor residents who likely wouldn't have cars or money for transportation.
"We have evacuation routes," he said. "We have ways to call and get MTA buses to take people out if they don't have automobiles."
http://www.nydailynews.com/front/sto...p-293505c.html
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This is what I was talking about. New York has a plan in place should something so devastating occur, and yet New Orleans didn't. Whose fault is that?
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It seems pretty obvious that New Orleans would have a much-reduced disaster-response plan. New York was already hit by terrorists, and has already suffered a 'disaster' of epic propotions (and when I say epic, I mean totally dwarfed by the Hurricane). I don't think it's fair to compare what are probably the richest and poorest cities in the United States and expect them to have equally prepared plans of escape. [/b][/quote]
I disagree it should be obvious they would have a reduced disaster plan.
They're in a hurricane zone.
They're well under sea level.
They have a long history of being flooded, to the point where they don't even bury their dead underground but use crypts instead.
We're not talking about much expense either.
We're talking about writing on a piece of paper where mental hospices are, where old folks homes are and working with the transit department to have buses lined up outside to evacuate them in case of a significant hurricane warning. It becomes an automatic process that is practiced periodically so that it becomes routine.
We're talking about having a regional plan so there is a place to take those people and where volunteers would be waiting to look after them. Again, periodically practiced.
And executed BEFORE the disaster happens.
That doesn't cost a lot of money. That just takes brains and anticipation. That type of planning is NORMAL in other major urban municipalities, as the Mayor of New York said, including Calgary or Okotoks or High River or wherever.
It wasn't normal in New Orleans and the question should be asked as to why it wasn't.
As the New York Times - hardly a friend of GW Bush - opined today on its editorial page:
"It was chilling, to put it mildly, to read Mayor Ray Nagin's comment in The Journal that New Orleans's hurricane plan was "get people to higher ground and have the feds and the state airlift supplies to them."
He didn't even get them to higher ground.
Cowperson