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Old September 2nd 05, 05:16 AM
Mike Rapoport
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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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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?



 




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