The NG requires food and water and trucks that use gasoline on passable
roads. You can't bring warm bodies in to help until you have the support
they need to survive. The old saying is generals win battles and the
logistics types win wars.

The northern Idaho crystal ball is pretty damn good. Maybe you could
lend it to the National Weather Service. 72 hours before Katrina hit
New Orleans it was off Naples, Florida with hurricane watches and
warnings on the west coast of Florida. She didn't even get north of the
Tampa Bay latitude until early Sunday.

"Mike Rapoport" wrote in message
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There are shortages in some markets like Baton Rouge but its not just
gasoline, its everything. I have a partner who lived in New Orleans
and is now in Houston, here are no suitable apartments availible in
Houston or hotel rooms. There are a lot of people on the move.

I've been watching the relief effort on TV. While the front line
police/fire/ambulence/NG people are all doing great things, the
planning authorities really f*cked this one up. If I was expecting
ten thousand or more people to show up somewhere and expected them to
stay for more than a couple of hours, I would at least have plenty of
water on hand. If I had ten thousand people without food or water and
I had to move them, I wouldn't take two days to get started and I
wouldn't delay the evacuation to put FEMA and US flag stickers on the
buses first. If I had tens of thousands of people without food,
water, sanitation and without law enforcement, I wouldn't activate the
NG one unit at a time, I would activate them all at once and try to
borrow units from neighboring states too. Even us dopes in N Idaho
knew the Gulf Coast was going to get pasted several days beforehand.
Why does it seem that it was too complicated for the
city/state/federal professionaly to figure out what to do?

Mike
MU-2


"john smith" wrote in message
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nrp wrote:
At least fuel is still available.

Hmmm??? Kinda makes one wonder if there really is a shortage, doesn't
it?
If there were truely a shortage nationwide, wouldn't you expect many
stations to be closed?
How many gas stations in your area are closed because they cannot get
gas?