Re: Lets Bash Bush on his slow response to the 1000's in SuperBoul-1 year
- From: High Plains Thumper <hpt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 04:03:23 +0900
BJayKana wrote:
Say Henry of 911@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, I wish we would Bash Bush on something
he actually did (or didnt do<g>). I wish you would put the same energy
in your spirited opinions about how slow the response was to help those
20,000 at both, the Convention Center and Super Dome in NewOrleans, that
you continually do about something Bush wasnt responsible for, the 911
attack.(IMO) ~~~~~But I wanna stop right here, and encourage you and
others to put the same energy into -cussing and discussing- the
pitfulness of how our government handled what hurricane katrina did to
the southern coastal areas, one year ago.~~~~~
New Orleans was a disaster waiting for a place to happen. None of the
governments (local, state, federal) for years did anything to strengthen
the already weak levees nor built additional ones. They allowed
residential construction within the flood plain.
Also, building code is extremely weak in hurricane alley. In comparison,
Japan and other countries requires much stronger structures that are able
to withstand the high speed winds in its typhoon prone prefectures.
Buildings including houses are made with reinforced concrete walls.
Windows are laminated with a layer of plastic, so if glass breaks, it is
still held together in place. To them, a typhoon is just another storm.
I think the US as a whole needs to relook its priorities to prevent and
minimise damages caused by disasters. It will cost people more to build
homes and redefine permissable areas to build in. It will cost some cash
layout to reinforce the levee infrastructures, but after such we would not
see the extreme devistation. It would have been just another storm and
lives would have been preserved.
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HPT
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