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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 news 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? |
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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 ink.net... 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 news 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? |
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Martin,
with all the oil and waste etc? Check on the status of the Venice water... -- Thomas Borchert (EDDH) |
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This is the country that built the Panama Canal and put men on the moon
in under a decade. It's also the country running the space shuttle... -- Thomas Borchert (EDDH) |
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At my place on Manasota Key I pay $0.50 PER GALLON for water... Have
for years... A tip for the investor, invest in water companies... denny |
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Martin Hotze wrote:
Venice exists probably longer than the whole US. So has New Orleans. George Patterson Give a person a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a person to use the Internet and he won't bother you for weeks. |
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Venice exists probably longer than the whole US.
So has New Orleans. Don't forget the Netherlands! |
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Our crystal ball (aka TWC) only fortold that the Gulf Coast would be hit,
not NO specifically. The point is that little or no pre-landfall preparation seems to have taken place. A few water trucks and a thousand dollars worth of paper cups at the superdome would have gone a long way as would a couple of large generators and a diesel truck to fuel them (all availible at the local equipment rental company). There are people who's job is to think of this stuff and they had decades to think it through. I find their performance unsatisfactory. The outcome of a levee breach at NO has been feature on almost every hurricane show I have ever watched on TV. This shouldn't have been a surprise. Mike MU-2 "sfb" wrote in message news:qsRRe.8105$__1.3116@trnddc07... 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 ink.net... 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 news 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? |
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"Mike Rapoport" wrote in message nk.net... Our crystal ball (aka TWC) only fortold that the Gulf Coast would be hit, not NO specifically. The point is that little or no pre-landfall preparation seems to have taken place. A few water trucks and a thousand dollars worth of paper cups at the superdome would have gone a long way as would a couple of large generators and a diesel truck to fuel them (all availible at the local equipment rental company). There are people who's job is to think of this stuff and they had decades to think it through. I find their performance unsatisfactory. The outcome of a levee breach at NO has been feature on almost every hurricane show I have ever watched on TV. This shouldn't have been a surprise. One of the two levees that broke had recently been upgraded. The old ones held fast. http://nytimes.com/2005/09/01/nation...l/01levee.html -- Matt --------------------- Matthew W. Barrow Site-Fill Homes, LLC. Montrose, CO |
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Matt Barrow wrote:
One of the two levees that broke had recently been upgraded. The old ones held fast. The report I heard was that they added a wall atop the levee. Isn't that just like a big lever to dig the levee when the water pushes against it? |
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