Re: Bush Strums as New Orleans drowns

In article <ay1Ve.1098$LS5.437@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Zev Sero <zev@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>Nancy Lebovitz wrote:

>> What do you make of the Federal government turning down or at least
>> significantly delaying help from foreign countries?
>
>I don't know to what extent this is true. If it is true, I'd like to
>know exactly what was offered, and whether there was actually any need
>for it.

Canada (those blameworthy troublemakers) offered a military
water-purification system.

Just for comparison's sake:

Response of the Theodore Roosevelt administration to
the San Francisco earthquake, April 18, 1906

The earthquake struck at 5:13 AM.

By 7 AM, federal troops had reported to the mayor.

By 8 AM, they were patrolling the entire downtown area
and searching for survivors.

A major aftershock struck at 8:14 AM.

By 10:05 AM, the USS Chicago was on its way from
San Diego to San Francisco.

By 10:30 AM, the USS Preble had landed a medical team
and set up an emergency hospital.

By 11 AM, large parts of the city were on fire; troops continued
to arrive throughout the day, evacuating people from the areas
threatened by fire to emergency shelters and Golden Gate Park.

St. Mary's hospital was destroyed by the fire at 1 PM, with no
loss of life, the staff and patients having already been evacuated
across the bay to Oakland.

By 3 PM, troops had shot several looters, and dynamited buildings
to make a firebreak; by five they had buried dozens of corpses, the
morgue and the police pistol range being unable to hold any more.

At 8:40 PM, General Funston requested emergency housing - tents
and shelters - from the War Department in Washington; all of the
tents in the U.S. Army were on their way to San Francisco by
4:55 AM the next morning.

Prisoners were evacuated to Alcatraz, and by April 20 (two days
after the earthquake) the USS Chicago had reached San Francisco,
where it evacuated 20,000 refugees.

(Timeline source is Gladys Hansen's "Chronology of the Great
Earthquake, and the 1906-1907 Graft Investigations"
http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist10/06timeline.html )

Of course, the technology of the day was fairly primitive, and the
U.S. was a much poorer country. No doubt we could move more quickly
today. And, of course, they had no advance warning of the earthquake.

Seth
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