Re: OT - Racism ?

On Fri, 09 Sep 2005 12:42:51 +1000, Alan S
<loralweightandcarbs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>On Thu, 08 Sep 2005 06:57:22 -0500, Hi_Therre
><Bruce35@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>> How many times do I have to qualify that I am referring to the healthy
>>>people who could have walked?
>>>
>>Where could they go? Since they have no money, how will they eat? Who
>>will house them?
>
>20 hours before the storm? North to higher ground. At three
>miles per hour, allowing for delays and stragglers, they
>would at least have been 30-40 miles out of NO, thirty miles
>inland from the waterfront.

Not a chance they could make that distance Out of shape urbanites
carrying what they can of their lives with them plus their sick and
elderly. Not a chance.

> But the local authorities should
>have planned designated high ground refuges out of the city.

Not a lot of high ground in the entire state of Louisiana. Plus nobody
knew which way the storm was going to go.

>And I'll bet some did exactly that - we haven't heard all
>the stories from survivors yet. It's exactly what some of
>the aboriginals did for Cyclone Tracy 30 years ago in
>Darwin. How do I know? I talked to them.

Thirty miles inland of this particular storm had winds over 100 miles
an hour. Those on the gulf coast got full 145 mph winds. They eye of
that storm was huge.
We are not talking about Aboriginals. We are talking about N.O. I have
no idea what differences and similarities they share in this day and
age. Were there a lot of whites walking with them?

>How will they eat? It takes three weeks to die of
>starvation. A lot longer than drowning. But they would have
>had food available much more quickly outside the city than
>those in the dome.

Those who could not evacuate were *told* to go to the Dome. What makes
you think that the rest of Louisiana could have fed tens of thousands
of starving New Orleans citizens? Do you know a lot about flat, flood
prone rural Louisiana?

>Who will house them? No different to the refugees being
>housed now, but better than staying in the bacterial soup
>that NO has become.

There are no "refugees". There are those who were evacuated. Did
anyone know for sure what track the storm was going to take? No. Those
walking could have been in worse shape than those who stayed had the
storm moved a few miles off the course it did.


>Cheers Alan, T2 d&e, Australia.



Sleepy

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