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How is it I and every other person I know knew the looting would happen - and the FU**ING HEAD OF MF'ING FEMA did not have a FU**ING CLUE
FEMA 'Surprised' by Lawlessness Friday, September 02, 2005 WASHINGTON — The head of the federal disaster relief agency said Friday it's "heartbreaking and very, very frustrating" to witness the virtual anarchy in hurricane-ravaged New Orleans (search ) and defended the Bush administration's response. Interviewed on several network morning news shows, Michael Brown (search), director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (search ), blamed emergency assistance delivery problems on "the total lack of communications, the inability to hear and have good intelligence on the ground about what was actually occurring there." Brown appeared the morning after the mayor of New Orleans, Ray Nagin (search ), charged that administration officials "don't have a clue" about what's going on in the devastated city that long has been among the nation's premier tourist attractions. "People are getting the help they need," Brown asserted on NBC's "Today" show. "This is an ongoing disaster. This disaster didn't just end when Katrina left." But Brown also acknowledged that little in the government's preparedness plan took into account the likelihood of lawlessness in such dire straits. "Before the hurricane struck I came down here personally and rode the storm out in Baton Rouge," he said. "We had all of our rescue teams, the medical teams, pre-deployed, ready to go. ... The lawlessness, the crime that is occurring, did surprise us." Appearing on ABC's "Good Morning America," the FEMA director said he "never thought I'd see" the lawlessness that has overtaken the city and interrupted emergency relief efforts. "It's heartbreaking and very, very frustrating to me from a broad operational perspective," he said. "What we have right now is a situation where, with my having access to the military, bringing in the National Guard troops, securing the area, we'll be able to continue the relief efforts that we have been doing over the last several days," Brown added. "We'll be able to ramp those up and continue the evacuation." Asked about the difficulty in getting sufficient supplies of food, water and medicine for the victims who need it, Brown conceded on NBC: "That's a frustrating issue for me ... You know, I could sit here and read off all the stats [of supplies furnished] ... We've provided food to people ... It's just a massive process ... to take care of every single one of those individuals." Brown refused to be drawn into a debate about whether the administration and the White House should be faulted for a lack of work to upgrade flood levees there in recent years. "I'm focused on lifesaving efforts," he said. Brown also said that he had talked daily with President Bush about the federal response and said "I have every thing I need to ramp this up and do what I have to do to secure New Orleans — get people out of here and start that recovery process." http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,168296,00.html |
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a bus carrying evacuated people just overturned outside of Lafayette
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I have to wonder if it is due to driver fatigue. It is about a six or so hour drive door to door from NOLA to Houston. So, a driver can drive one way and then not back. |
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Desperate residents starting to get medical attention Troops help an injured woman at the convention center in New Orleans. I am seeing moments of utter heartbreak and desperation here. There is no other word for it than unbelievable. We were walking with U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Russel Honore and his military team from the convention center and there are still hundreds of people on the street. They are just sitting there in terrible circumstances. We came across one young African American mother. She had twin young infants in her arms. She was trying to walk in this terrible heat and she apparently was so exhausted that the babies were half falling out of her arms. It was at that point that Gen. Honore just stopped cold in the middle of the street. He went up to this woman and said, "We're going to get you help." He took both of those babies and handed them to his soldiers. They also evacuated another mother and her baby. (See the convoy slog through floodwaters 3:33) Then we all got on a Coast Guard ship. These three infants and two mothers, who are terribly dehydrated and exhausted, are now getting instant medical care on this ship. And the mothers tell us that there simply has been no help. They tell us they escaped their homes by swimming to safety during the flood. They have been waiting ever since with their babies on the street for someone to pick them up. It's a story we are seeing again and again in all of these places. www.cnn.com |
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By the way, dissention mentioned way back in this thread that people should call and write their representatives about the disgraceful response to this disaster.
Here's the toll-free number for the Congressional switchboard: 1-877-762-8762. You just have to ask to be connected to your Senators' and Rep's office...you'll have to know their names. If you don't know who represents you, go to www.vote-smart.org and type in your zip code. The White House comment line is 202-456-1111, and email is comments@whitehouse.gov. |
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To Bill...~ As much as I love your show ~ You could never get this songbird to stop spinning...~
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"Do not be afraid! I am Esteban de la Sexface!" "In order to live free and happily, you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice" Whehyll I can do EHYT!! Wehyll I can make it WAHN moh thihme! (wheyllit'sA reayllongwaytogooo! To say goodbhiiy!) - |
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This is what Landrieu had to say after Bush's helicopter tour of New Orleans today:
"The president is starting to grasp the magnitude of the situation," said Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La. STARTING TO GRASP???? |
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