Comments on: Katrina Is One SCARY Storm! http://jimthompson.org/wp/2005/08/28/katrina-is-one-scary-storm/ A clean, well-lighted blog. Tue, 06 Jan 2009 23:40:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1.2 by: Webnounce Announcements http://jimthompson.org/wp/2005/08/28/katrina-is-one-scary-storm/#comment-191 Thu, 01 Sep 2005 06:52:12 +0000 http://jimthompson.org/wp/2005/08/28/katrina-is-one-scary-storm/#comment-191 <strong>Post Missing Hurricane Katrina Victims</strong> [IMG_L]http://www.webnounce.com/images/announcements/katrina.jpg[/IMG_L] My heart goes out to all the victims and their families. I will do all I can on my part. If you\'re missing somebody, please post their names and pictures here. If you don\'t... Post Missing Hurricane Katrina Victims

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]]> by: Joe Stubbs http://jimthompson.org/wp/2005/08/28/katrina-is-one-scary-storm/#comment-187 Wed, 31 Aug 2005 00:53:04 +0000 http://jimthompson.org/wp/2005/08/28/katrina-is-one-scary-storm/#comment-187 My heart and soul goes out to all the people who have and are suffering in this catastrophe. I hate to be a Monday morning quarterback, but I really have a several issues that I do not comprehend. I watched the news conference with Governor Blanco, Senator Landrieu, the National Guard, the FEMA representative(s), and others. There were several things I heard the professionals (i.e. FEMA, Army Corps of Engineers, other military-type personnel) responsible for rescuing, preventing flooding, and providing the necessities to those who are now refugees say that astound me. 1. First, why are they just now bringing swift boats from California to assist in rescuing people and delivering supplies to those isolated. I thought that FEMA had everything positioned in adequate supply to move in as soon as the storm passed. I thought that it was a given that New Orleans might be inundated. Why wouldn’t you expect to need watercraft and have all the potentially needed craft already in position, especially if that was your profession to prepare for these things? 2. Wasn’t it a given the fear from the beginning and even in all the doomsday scenarios that the levees would be breeched? Why did the Army Corps of Engineers decide to try to figure out how to fix such a breech, only after the fact? Why weren’t there several alternative plans already in the game plan? Didn’t the Army Corps of Engineers build these levees? What were they thinking? Maybe I have answered my own question. 3. I also heard that they were now developing a plan to grid the area to search for survivors. Why would you wait until after the disaster to create such a plan? It seems to me the storm passed New Orleans over 24 hours ago, and the Federal officials are now making plans for how to help. I am truly awed at the Coast Guard rescues and other such immediate and heroic efforts. It seems unfortunate to me the management types in suits and ties had to wait until the storm passed to plan what to do about what seems to me were obviously potentially essential activities 36 hours before the storm hit. Posted by: Joe Stubbs at August 30, 2005 07:22 PM My heart and soul goes out to all the people who have and are suffering in this catastrophe. I hate to be a Monday morning quarterback, but I really have a several issues that I do not comprehend. I watched the news conference with Governor Blanco, Senator Landrieu, the National Guard, the FEMA representative(s), and others.

There were several things I heard the professionals (i.e. FEMA, Army Corps of Engineers, other military-type personnel) responsible for rescuing, preventing flooding, and providing the necessities to those who are now refugees say that astound me.
1. First, why are they just now bringing swift boats from California to assist in rescuing people and delivering supplies to those isolated. I thought that FEMA had everything positioned in adequate supply to move in as soon as the storm passed. I thought that it was a given that New Orleans might be inundated. Why wouldn’t you expect to need watercraft and have all the potentially needed craft already in position, especially if that was your profession to prepare for these things?
2. Wasn’t it a given the fear from the beginning and even in all the doomsday scenarios that the levees would be breeched? Why did the Army Corps of Engineers decide to try to figure out how to fix such a breech, only after the fact? Why weren’t there several alternative plans already in the game plan? Didn’t the Army Corps of Engineers build these levees? What were they thinking? Maybe I have answered my own question.
3. I also heard that they were now developing a plan to grid the area to search for survivors. Why would you wait until after the disaster to create such a plan? It seems to me the storm passed New Orleans over 24 hours ago, and the Federal officials are now making plans for how to help.
I am truly awed at the Coast Guard rescues and other such immediate and heroic efforts. It seems unfortunate to me the management types in suits and ties had to wait until the storm passed to plan what to do about what seems to me were obviously potentially essential activities 36 hours before the storm hit.

Posted by: Joe Stubbs at August 30, 2005 07:22 PM

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