09-07-2005, 03:11 AM
Galt, your problem seems to be that you're still trying to talk about last Saturday. Everyone else is talk about what happened over the next 6 days it took to have FEMA in control of the city.
Knee-Jerk response? It took until Friday for my knee-jerk to occur, which just so happened to coincide with the fact that thousands of people had been in a convention center for a week without anyone coming to feed them or get them out. How is the local government suppose to have the supplies to take care of that, not even considering the police force it would take. Ever been to a footbal game? Ever try and count many security guards they have? You think that the NOPD would have that type of force at its fucking finger tips, never mind the rest of the force that would need to be deployed to stop looters on the street, after the entire city was just detroyed in the most destructive hurricane ever?
Everyone wants to hold NY up as the example for proper way to keep a situation from going out of control. In fact, we sent just about every city emergency responder into the WTC, and then watched them all fucking die.
This hurricane was even worse than 9/11, communications cut, martial law, looting, flood. Now, you're saying they should have anticipated all of that on the 28th, AND that they should have also anticipated that the federal government will not be responding until Bush comes on Friday.
Knee-Jerk response? It took until Friday for my knee-jerk to occur, which just so happened to coincide with the fact that thousands of people had been in a convention center for a week without anyone coming to feed them or get them out. How is the local government suppose to have the supplies to take care of that, not even considering the police force it would take. Ever been to a footbal game? Ever try and count many security guards they have? You think that the NOPD would have that type of force at its fucking finger tips, never mind the rest of the force that would need to be deployed to stop looters on the street, after the entire city was just detroyed in the most destructive hurricane ever?
Everyone wants to hold NY up as the example for proper way to keep a situation from going out of control. In fact, we sent just about every city emergency responder into the WTC, and then watched them all fucking die.
This hurricane was even worse than 9/11, communications cut, martial law, looting, flood. Now, you're saying they should have anticipated all of that on the 28th, AND that they should have also anticipated that the federal government will not be responding until Bush comes on Friday.