Comments on: Karl Rove and the Politicization of Disaster Response and Reocvery: Delivering Talking Points While the Canadians Rescue Louisianans http://thinknola.com/post/karl-rove-fema/ A Community Notebook Mon, 26 Apr 2010 05:12:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: yomomma http://thinknola.com/post/karl-rove-fema/comment-page-1/#comment-184104 yomomma Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:50:52 +0000 http://thinknola.com/?p=828#comment-184104 >> Today I received another comment about the school-buses that were left to flood, that could have been used to evacuate people from New Orleans during Katrina. I was reminded of the years of corruption in New Orleans and Louisiana under Democratic leadership. << You know that big earthquake in San Francisco during the World Series in 1989? Diane Feinstein had just retrofitted Candlestick ball park to handle a much more severe earthquake in the previous year. God bless her, it just so happened that there were tens of thousands of people in that ball park when the big one hit. That's what mayors do, one of their main jobs is to make sure the city is prepared when disaster strikes. Guess who's responsibility it is to evacaute a city's residents in the event of a disaster? It's not the Feds. All major cities in America have disaster plans, and evacuation is a part of that plan, the real disaster here being the total failure of the City of New Orleans to evacuate its residents. They didn't even have the presence of mind to bring some freakin' generators to the Superdome for Chrissakes. What a travesty it was on all accounts, but any look at the disaster that was the response to the disaster must start at the local and state levels. >> Today I received another comment about the school-buses that were left to flood, that could have been used to evacuate people from New Orleans during Katrina. I was reminded of the years of corruption in New Orleans and Louisiana under Democratic leadership. <<

You know that big earthquake in San Francisco during the World Series in 1989?

Diane Feinstein had just retrofitted Candlestick ball park to handle a much more severe earthquake in the previous year. God bless her, it just so happened that there were tens of thousands of people in that ball park when the big one hit. That’s what mayors do, one of their main jobs is to make sure the city is prepared when disaster strikes.

Guess who’s responsibility it is to evacaute a city’s residents in the event of a disaster? It’s not the Feds. All major cities in America have disaster plans, and evacuation is a part of that plan, the real disaster here being the total failure of the City of New Orleans to evacuate its residents.

They didn’t even have the presence of mind to bring some freakin’ generators to the Superdome for Chrissakes. What a travesty it was on all accounts, but any look at the disaster that was the response to the disaster must start at the local and state levels.

]]> By: e http://thinknola.com/post/karl-rove-fema/comment-page-1/#comment-176822 e Fri, 06 Jun 2008 20:12:43 +0000 http://thinknola.com/?p=828#comment-176822 So insulting... where do you start? So insulting… where do you start?

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