Theos-Talk Archives (September 2005 Message tt00032)

Hi Paul,

Yes I think the convention center is about 15 blocks away
from the Superdome.

The point is still valid that on Wednesday
all the major cable news networks were
reporting the dire straits at both facilities and
FEMA was seemingly unaware of the situations or just didn't 
seem too concerned.

On Wednesday friends and I were watching all the coverage
and wondering where were the national guard, the military
and FEMA?

During that same Wed. afternoon FOX had a reporter
on one of the freeways where several thousand people
had escaped the floods and none of them had water or
anything to eat and were having to cope with the heat and humidity. 
Shepard Smith was extremely upset on the air wondering where FEMA 
was with water, food, etc.

As you probably well know, FEMA and all government agencies knew 
BEFORE the hurricane hit that it was category 5 and the results 
would be catastrophic on the gulf coast. Once the hurricane passed 
over the region FEMA should have been ready to airlift water, food, 
etc. within the first 48 hours, if not within the first 24 hours.

The people at the superdome, the convention center and on the 
freeways were MAJOR concentrations of people who needed urgent and 
immediate assistance. National guard troops,etc should also have 
been poised to immediately enter the area to quell any violence, etc.

Daniel



--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, "kpauljohnson" 
<kpauljohnson@y...> wrote:
> Daniel,
> 
> I admire the sentiment of your letter, but the Superdome and the 
> Convention Center are two different places. The response to those 
> stranded at the Superdome was absolutely inadequate. The response 
to 
> those stranded at the Convention Center was totally nonexistent.
> 
> Paul
> 
> --- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, "Daniel H. Caldwell" 
> <danielhcaldwell@y...> wrote:
> > Thursday
> > 
> > Dear Senator McCain,
> > 
> > I read tonight on the Drudge Report the following statement in 
an 
> > article:
> > 
> > "FEMA director Michael Brown said the agency just learned about 
the 
> > situation at the convention center [Superdome] Thursday 
> > [today!!!???] and quickly scrambled to provide food, water and 
> > medical care and remove the corpses."
> > 
> > If this statement is true, then this shows to me that the FEMA 
> > director and other officials at FEMA are totally incompetent.
> > ALL DAY Wednesday on CNN, Fox, and MSNBC, reporters were 
describing 
> > the terrible situation at the Superdome. I believe even on 
Tuesday 
> > night there were such reports.
> > 
> > It seems unbelievable to me that someone at FEMA was NOT 
monitoring 
> > the first hand reports on the cable news channels and reporting 
> this 
> > to higher officials. If I could know either Tuesday nite or 
> > Wednesday here in Tucson, AZ about the situation at the 
Superdome, 
> > why oh why couldn't FEMA know about it????!!!
> > 
> > I am so anger over this. The poor suffering of thousands of 
> > residents at the Superdome. No water, no food, and plenty of 
> > violence, etc.
> > 
> > I hope that you and Jon Kyl will at some point investigate this 
> > apparently total incompetence on the part of FEMA. The top 
> officals 
> > at FEMA should be held accountable for this. But I'm sure it 
will 
> > be swept under the rug and ignored. 
> > 
> > Daniel Caldwell 
> > danielhcaldwell@h...