FEMA has contracted many of the airline carrier's a/c and crews to take evacuees out of MSY to airforce bases and other places where they will house them and give relief. US Airways has been participating since Saturday with 737 a/c. Our crews are volunteering to do these flights and are going on a volunteer"list" to fly these chartered flights
The State of TX has accepted over 230,000 evacuees and the military is still looking for survivors in the flood torn disaster areas. The military engineers contracted by FEMA are also at the same time trying to repair the levies so that that the clean up and body recovery can take place. The area is becoming a bio-hazard infectious cesspool every day that the water remains stagnant.
I believe the nation IS doing all it can without creating chaos by having too many volunteers in one place hendering search/recovery and clean up. The airport was literally full of a/c all over the place with commerical a/c and military with medical supplies, food/water, as well as airlifing survivors. Some a/c had to be diverted because the airport couldn't handle all the traffic coming in and out.
There needs to be semblance of order.
I know that U has a huge list of crews that have volunteered to board these FEMA flights and help out with the evacuation.
I believe and have read that the donations from the American people as well as other nations like Russia are sending in engineers and generators to begin to pump the water out of MSY, (which will take months) and Corporations are donating hundreds of millions of dollars to help in this historical disaster along with millions from private donations and the $10 billion for starters from Feds.
When I hear of folks talking and commenting on suing the government, I start to get infuriated, because this is saying to sue the American people for the disaster and saying that the response was too slow.
What about the "before-the-storm response" by the local and sate governments of these states?
I think it was imperative for the President to assess the situation in order to know HOW to respond to such a disaster. The local and state government have a responsibility to its citizens to have an evacuation plan in place being that they are a city that has only man made levies to protect the city from a flood disaster. The local and state government acted too little too late and THEY waited 24 hours BEFORE katrina hit to publicaly announce a mass evacuation. Heck, WHERE WAS THE MAYOR AND WHY DIDN'T HE START WITH SCHOOL BUSES TO GET THE ELDERLY FOLKS OUT OF NURSING HOMES AND HOSPITALS? If the Feds are too act first, why have local and state officials at all? there was a guy (hero) who the news reported took it upon himself to take a school bus that was sitting with the keys in the ignition and get the heck out of the city. He picked up 70 folks on his way out of Dodge.
Common sense works too.
The MAYOR of MSY should have had an evacuation in place, but now he is blaming the federal government, and of course, the government are the citizens of this nation.
There were Government contractors that were trying to fix the levies and had to be escorted to the site to dodge bullets from sniper fire. Everyone in surrounding states in the area are doing what they can to help in this catastrophic situation.
I am NO Bush fan, but folks, the mayor of MSY didn't even evaluate the potential for this kind of devastation and should have started an evacuation of the hospitals and nursing homes earlier than 24 hours before the storm hit. He announced an evacuation 24 hours before Katrina hit, but why weren't the nursing homes and hospitals emptied out? Where was the supply of food/water/medical? I had friends from PBI calling me 3 days before Katrina hit the coast of Louisiana and Mississippi and said that this storm left them at a catagory 1, BUT was picking so much momentum going up through the Gulf from the heated waters that the winds were going to be over 200 miles an hour and hit MSY and the Gulf states in that area. That's what my friends in PBI warned 3 days ealier.
If they knew, why didn't the Mayor of MSY know or the Governors of these Gulf coast states??????
They now want to blame the President for not acting fast enough????? Does that leave the Local and State officials lack of prepardness "off the hook"?
Dialogue?
The State of TX has accepted over 230,000 evacuees and the military is still looking for survivors in the flood torn disaster areas. The military engineers contracted by FEMA are also at the same time trying to repair the levies so that that the clean up and body recovery can take place. The area is becoming a bio-hazard infectious cesspool every day that the water remains stagnant.
I believe the nation IS doing all it can without creating chaos by having too many volunteers in one place hendering search/recovery and clean up. The airport was literally full of a/c all over the place with commerical a/c and military with medical supplies, food/water, as well as airlifing survivors. Some a/c had to be diverted because the airport couldn't handle all the traffic coming in and out.
There needs to be semblance of order.
I know that U has a huge list of crews that have volunteered to board these FEMA flights and help out with the evacuation.
I believe and have read that the donations from the American people as well as other nations like Russia are sending in engineers and generators to begin to pump the water out of MSY, (which will take months) and Corporations are donating hundreds of millions of dollars to help in this historical disaster along with millions from private donations and the $10 billion for starters from Feds.
When I hear of folks talking and commenting on suing the government, I start to get infuriated, because this is saying to sue the American people for the disaster and saying that the response was too slow.
What about the "before-the-storm response" by the local and sate governments of these states?
I think it was imperative for the President to assess the situation in order to know HOW to respond to such a disaster. The local and state government have a responsibility to its citizens to have an evacuation plan in place being that they are a city that has only man made levies to protect the city from a flood disaster. The local and state government acted too little too late and THEY waited 24 hours BEFORE katrina hit to publicaly announce a mass evacuation. Heck, WHERE WAS THE MAYOR AND WHY DIDN'T HE START WITH SCHOOL BUSES TO GET THE ELDERLY FOLKS OUT OF NURSING HOMES AND HOSPITALS? If the Feds are too act first, why have local and state officials at all? there was a guy (hero) who the news reported took it upon himself to take a school bus that was sitting with the keys in the ignition and get the heck out of the city. He picked up 70 folks on his way out of Dodge.
Common sense works too.
The MAYOR of MSY should have had an evacuation in place, but now he is blaming the federal government, and of course, the government are the citizens of this nation.
There were Government contractors that were trying to fix the levies and had to be escorted to the site to dodge bullets from sniper fire. Everyone in surrounding states in the area are doing what they can to help in this catastrophic situation.
I am NO Bush fan, but folks, the mayor of MSY didn't even evaluate the potential for this kind of devastation and should have started an evacuation of the hospitals and nursing homes earlier than 24 hours before the storm hit. He announced an evacuation 24 hours before Katrina hit, but why weren't the nursing homes and hospitals emptied out? Where was the supply of food/water/medical? I had friends from PBI calling me 3 days before Katrina hit the coast of Louisiana and Mississippi and said that this storm left them at a catagory 1, BUT was picking so much momentum going up through the Gulf from the heated waters that the winds were going to be over 200 miles an hour and hit MSY and the Gulf states in that area. That's what my friends in PBI warned 3 days ealier.
If they knew, why didn't the Mayor of MSY know or the Governors of these Gulf coast states??????
They now want to blame the President for not acting fast enough????? Does that leave the Local and State officials lack of prepardness "off the hook"?
Dialogue?