Question about the emergency answer concerning kat hurricane

[Forthe]

Once something like that hits, there is no good way to make it better quick. You can only minimize the losses. The only way you were going to prevent an enormous amount of deaths in NO was to evacuate. The question then is how do you evacuate that many people, especially when a large majority refuse to leave?

The only thing I could even come up with as an answer is to have National Guard units be ready for immediate deployment under hurricane warnings and when an evacuation call comes that they roll in with as many troop transports as possible to evacuate. The people who refuse to leave can stay and die....and thus wash the government's hands of blame for incidents.

I agree to a point. But the response was seriously lacking until people started being publically critical of the governement.

Example: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050908/wl_ ... relans_col

[Aabidano]

I'd like to know who made the decision to drop all those people at the dome, rather than taking them out of town as the plan called for.

[Psyloche]

So poor... and so black... probably a repost of somebody else but I never sift through to find out.

http://www.thatvideosite.com/view/629.html

[Wulfran]

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/s ... TopStories

Federal Emergency Management Agency director Michael Brown, who has been fiercely criticized over the agency's response to Hurricane Katrina, is being pulled off relief operations in the area, according to The Associated Press.

This guy, from his comments to various media, has not impressed me with his grasp of the situation but I can't help but wonder if this is the official appointment of the Scapegoat...