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October 19, 2005
Blanco, clueless. . .
I've been looking for a source on THIS for some time, and thanks to the Carnival of the Clueless and The Strata-Sphere, I finally found it.
Though experts had warned it would take 48 hours to evacuate New Orleans, Blanco did not order a mandatory evacuation that Saturday.“We’re going to pray that the impact will soften,” she said.
Blanco and the mayor waited until Sunday, Aug. 28 — only 20 hours before Katrina came ashore — to order a mandatory evacuation, the first of what disaster experts and Louisiana insiders say were serious mistakes by the governor.
Now as an atheist, I don't fault people for praying, it's what they do. For for Blanco to take the position that we're just "going to pray that the impact will soften" while on the other hand she's stonewalling the Feds, mis-managing the La. National Guard, sending people to shelters with no food and water and waiting until it was TOO LATE to order or even support the evacuation, is just well. . . . "Clueless".
So take a look at the video here (hopefully it'll stay up for a while), and read the whole article, then if you're so inclined I've put in a new category here on the blog, -Katrina, and put all my Katrina posts in there. Including the popular "Blanco's Insurrection" post.
Enjoy, get mad, but most of all, remember, and for goodness sakes, you people in Wilma's path, please keep a close eye on it and get out of the way.
Finally I want to link to Gateway Pundit for a round-up of facts and fiction about Katrina. Pay special attention to this part.
Fact: "The federal government pretty much met its standard time lines, but the volume of support provided during the 72-96 hour was unprecedented. The federal response here was faster than Hugo, faster than Andrew, faster than Iniki, faster than Francine and Jeanne."
Yep, the "slowness" of the Federal response was a MYTH.
Posted by JasonColeman at October 19, 2005 1:55 PM
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Interesting information and links, thanks for posting them.
Posted by: Kyle at October 19, 2005 8:15 PM
