Theos-Talk Archives (September 2005 Message tt00037)

Bart,

A day or two BEFORE the hurricane hit the coast, FEMA should AT 
LEAST have known about the thousands of people going to the 
Superdome. This was covered on all the news channels. And I 
remember that the news channels reported BEFORE the hurricane 
arrived that the last time people were sheltered in the superdome 
from a hurricane that there had been unrest and some problems. 

I believe that was one of the reasons that the National guard was 
supposedly checking all persons entering the dome for guns, knives 
and other weapons. 

AFTER the hurricane FEMA should have known that the 
superdome was a major concentration of thousands of people who would 
be in urgent need of water, food, etc. 

So when did these poor people get water and food?

You also write:

"FEMA had to get all its information from broadcast news, which is 
not always reliable...." 

Do you need to be a rocket scientist to know that the thousands at
the superdome needed immediate help??

The broadcast news on this situation was as reliable as it gets. 
Doesn't anyone at FEMA watch the news networks since they provide 
valuable "eyes" and "ears" reports that were avialable no where 
else???

Daniel




--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, Bart Lidofsky <bartl@s...> wrote:
> kpauljohnson wrote:
> > stranded at the Superdome was absolutely inadequate. The
response 
to 
> > those stranded at the Convention Center was totally nonexistent.
> 
> Because, until they saw the reports on the news, nobody in 
FEMA even 
> knew that the Convention Center was a place where there were
people. 
> Seems that, when the governor of Louisiana set it up, she 
neglected 
to 
> tell FEMA about it.
> 
> Bart