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Monday, September 12, 2005
Why Didn't Blanco Know About These Cars?
Never mind the Magical Buses of NOLA, what about the Incredible Flying Cars?!
The tops of cars can be seen as the water recedes in New Orleans.
So why didn't Nagin and Blanco just commandeer all these cars to completely evacuate NOLA? Answer me that, stupid liberals!
ntodd
[Update: Badtux has some more perspective on the "what about the school buses?!" mantra. (via greatscat!)]
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Now, I suggest you re-read "Sinners in the Hands of Angry God" and ponder its meaning.
...or something.
Posted by: Darryl Pearce | Sep 12, 2005 1:10:12 PM
But I thought Bush was Saved and thus couldn't be a Sinner?
Posted by: NTodd | Sep 12, 2005 2:49:12 PM
Don't be stupid. Nagin should have put drivers behind the wheels of hundreds of buses and helped move people to higher ground. That's a major part of the city's evacuation plan and has been forever. Don't weasel away from the truth just because it doesn't serve your partisan interests.
Posted by: Toby Petzold | Sep 13, 2005 8:51:28 PM
No, Toby, you are wrong. The plan was to put the people who couldn't evac in the Superdome, which was designed to withstand 200mph winds and had been refit after Ivan for just such an emergency, including stocks of food and water for 36 hours. The assumption, which would be sound if we had a FEMA that was effective instead of being a backwater for political patrons, was that the Feds would do their fucking job in the aftermath.
Don't weasel away from the truth just because it doesn't serve your partisan interests.
And I am instituting the world-famous Charlie Rule for you: make an assertion, back it up with a link, or you'll be banned. Charlie is playing by the rules. Can you?
Posted by: NTodd | Sep 13, 2005 8:57:55 PM
Hi Tobes.
Shouldn't you be posting at your piece of
shit blog that nobody but your boyfriend
robdouth comments at?
You know -- instead of embarassing yourself
over here?
Posted by: steve simels | Sep 13, 2005 9:09:52 PM
Oh, and Nagin is just supposed to conjure 300 bus drivers out of the thin air, Toby? You can't just shove anybody behind the wheel of a bus, you doofus! Not to mention the obvious fact that 300 buses (which is about all the New Orleans school district had, according to the most recent figures available) were never going to be enough to evacuate the 100,000 people in New Orleans without cars, or even the 20,000 people who took refuge at the Superdome. Since Contraflow was in effect, they would only have had one trip out.
And just where do you propose they were to have been left once they got out of New Orleans? If they're too poor to afford a car, chances are not very good that they're going to have the cash (much less a credit card) to book a hotel room in an evacuation zone. Especially not when there's a million other people (literally) all trying to find rooms at the same time.
Or were they just supposed to drop them off at the side of the road and trust to Providence?
Posted by: Michael | Sep 13, 2005 9:25:00 PM
Michael: Good point about the buses and here is another one. Most of the people who were qualified to drive those buses were women. Many of them might have 1)Left early 2)Were scared about the driving. Personally if my job was normally driving a bunch of kids I would find driving a bunch of adults a vacation, but some people get nervious driving different groups of people.
Of course they could have non-licensed people do the driving and rounded them up and said "Go!" but that would have required a level of cordination that they weren't up to at the time. I've particiated in a couple of SF disaster drills and I always thank god they are just drills, we learn SO much from practicing that we wouldn't have figured out until we were actually in the streets doing the drill.
Even then it is tough. As they say in the military, no plan survives first contact with the enemy. That is why we need people who are from the outside to help. Even the best laid plans need support from people who have experience and cooler heads.
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