Theos-Talk Archives (September 2005 Message tt00058)

	It's in various places. I had heard it from interviews on the radio, 
and finding exact documentation among all the stories being written is 
difficult.

http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/new-orleans-evacuated-as-katrina-bears-down/2005/08/30/1125302514033.html

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/09/02/earlyshow/main813097.shtml

http://www.local6.com/news/4887230/detail.html

The major problem is that New Orleans dropped the ball. The police did 
not take the evacuation order seriously. The National Guard equipment 
and hundreds of public buses which could have been used to evacuate 
people were just left lying around, and got destroyed in the flood. FEMA 
response was based on cooperation from local officials, and there just 
wasn't any.


Daniel H. Caldwell wrote:

> Bart,
>
> Can you please tell the people on this forum where
> they can find the documentation to support your
> statement below?
>
> Daniel
>
>
>
> --- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, Bart Lidofsky <bartl@s...> wrote:
>
> > Daniel H. Caldwell wrote:
> >
> > > Are you telling me that it is NOT allowed by law for the
> > > Director of FEMA to call the Governor of Louisiana and ask
> > > if she wants them to go in and assist the people at the
> > > Superdome?
> > 	Nope. In fact, he called her BEFORE the hurricane even hit, 
> and was 
> > told to stay out. The government refused to give FEMA the 
> information 
> > they desparately needed in order to effectively help out.
> >
> > 	Bart
>
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