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wendowoowho.
Now, one quick thought on the blame game in see Karl Rove & cohorts using to pin *all* responsability on state & local authorities- one think I *know* from having been born in a Hurricane Zone is that FEMA goes into any hurricane zone *knowing* where the shelters are, and the shelters are - have to be - places where people who can't flee town can go and know they'll be safe. So everyone in the Superdome - those 20,000 or so people - *should* have been the first fucking objective of FEMA within two hours of when the storm winds died down. People at Salvation Army shelters in the city and the surrounding areas should have been evacuated by the feds as soon as there was an awareness of the danger from the flood.
When they say they don't go in until it's "safe", they mean when the damned winds are below hurricane strength. If you've ever seen 24 hours of local hurricane coverage, you'd know that. The National Guard went into hurricane-ravaged areas after Andrew even though there were looters and a dawn-to-dusk curfiew - why was Michael Brown working from a different definition of "safe" here?
This is what FEMA is supposed to do - rescue people after a natural disaster. That's what their project plans on their website say, but I'm not sure you can get there with a mac; I linked to them earlier this week. This is what we, the taxpayers, pay them to do. And they did not do their job. Period.
Yes, there is time later to fully investigate why the levee broke and what prevented people from fully evacuating beforehand. However, we as a country cannot continue to allow Michael Brown to head FEMA. I and my neighbors are terrified of how he could screw up if God forebid my town is hit by a hurricane in the next three months of hurricane season. They've already decided to give no assistence to the farmers who lost their okra, sweet potato and cassava crops when Katrina hit us ten days ago, and from those losses 2,000 jobs will also be lost. They rejected a request for aid from a Habitat for Humanity development without even sending out an investigator. They have failed this country and there must be a change in leadership of that agency. Now.
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wendowoowho.Now, one quick thought on the blame game in see Karl Rove & cohorts using to pin *all* responsability on state & local authorities- one think I *know* from having been born in a Hurricane Zone is that FEMA goes into any hurricane zone *knowing* where the shelters are, and the shelters are - have to be - places where people who can't flee town can go and know they'll be safe. So everyone in the Superdome - those 20,000 or so people - *should* have been the first fucking objective of FEMA within two hours of when the storm winds died down. People at Salvation Army shelters in the city and the surrounding areas should have been evacuated by the feds as soon as there was an awareness of the danger from the flood.
When they say they don't go in until it's "safe", they mean when the damned winds are below hurricane strength. If you've ever seen 24 hours of local hurricane coverage, you'd know that. The National Guard went into hurricane-ravaged areas after Andrew even though there were looters and a dawn-to-dusk curfiew - why was Michael Brown working from a different definition of "safe" here?
This is what FEMA is supposed to do - rescue people after a natural disaster. That's what their project plans on their website say, but I'm not sure you can get there with a mac; I linked to them earlier this week. This is what we, the taxpayers, pay them to do. And they did not do their job. Period.
Yes, there is time later to fully investigate why the levee broke and what prevented people from fully evacuating beforehand. However, we as a country cannot continue to allow Michael Brown to head FEMA. I and my neighbors are terrified of how he could screw up if God forebid my town is hit by a hurricane in the next three months of hurricane season. They've already decided to give no assistence to the farmers who lost their okra, sweet potato and cassava crops when Katrina hit us ten days ago, and from those losses 2,000 jobs will also be lost. They rejected a request for aid from a Habitat for Humanity development without even sending out an investigator. They have failed this country and there must be a change in leadership of that agency. Now.
