jlf1961
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There were more than a number of BIG differences about New Orleans and the entire Katrina land fall area and Iowa.
Number one, the governors of the coastal states impacted by katrina did not have the personnel to deploy to deal with the day after problems, you see, most of the Lousiana, Mississippi and Alabama national guard units were deployed in IRAQ.
The Army Corp of Engineers had been screaming about the levee situation for close to 20 years... congress ignored them.
People didnt start shooting at rescuers for five days after the flooding began.
Forced evacuations would not have worked in New Orleans for one simple reason, THERE WAS NOT ENOUGH TRANSPORTATION AVAILABLE!
The Super Dome and Convention centers were shelters of last resort and only meant to be used for less than 24 hours.
With no national guard units available to the governors of the states in question, there was no way to get ground rescue personnel into the hardest hit areas. (FYI, President Bush had been warned prior to the Iraqi invasion that due to the need to deploy massive numbers of national guard troops in the combat zone, the ability of states to react to natural disasters would be severly limited if not made impossible.)
The national guard units that did finally arrive were from other states, Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, Ohio, and Kentucky. And those were not released to assist until four days after landfall.
By all means, lets blame all the people who did not evacuate because they really had no way to do so for not leaving. Forget about the fact that when the governor issued the order, she did not release any of the available school buses for the task. In fact ALL of the school buses in New Orleans ended up UNDER WATER!
And you know something, if I had been waiting for rescue for a couple of days, with no food, no water, the bodies of the dead floating by, and listening to battery powered radios about what was going on, I think I might have taken a few shots myself.
And now for some more really good news:
If a major hurricane comes ashore anywhere along the gulf coast or south eastern atlantic coast, we can expect the same problems, since most of the national guard troops are still deployed in Iraq.
The same is true if a major earthquake hit on the west coast, for example if a major rupture on the San Andraes, or cascadia fault zone.
Wont be many people there to help with rescue... they too are in Iraq.
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