Re: Some Katrina observations from the scene


<rdean3REMOVE@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> On Sun, 04 Sep 2005 11:47:21 GMT, Ken Fortenberry
> <kenfortenberry@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>rdean3REMOVE@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>>> I'm here, in the middle of it, and I can tell you the damage and
>>> reaction situation is no one's fault. ...
>>
>>Seems pretty odd to me that US choppers could drop
>>food, water and medical supplies for thousands in
>>remotest Indonesia TWO DAYS after the tsunami but
>>nobody except CNN and Harry Conick Jr could manage
>>to drive to the Convention Center until Friday.
>
> First, this wasn't like the tsunami as a sudden, without-warning event
> that struck only coastal areas. Second, most sensible people down here
> know to prep for hurricanes (stock up on food, water, batteries, etc.)
> if they are going to remain. Third, folks in particularly danger-prone
> (low, beaches, south zones, etc.) areas were told, even ordered, to get
> out REPEATEDLY for at least 36 hours prior AND warned that if they
> remained, help would be spotty at best. ...(much snipped)

> But all that aside, let me ask you this: where are you getting your
> info? Mine is on-ground eyes-on - yours? Helicopters having been
> trying to drop stuff since about Tuesday, but were fired upon. When
> thicker-skinned "military-style" (esp. Cobras, etc.) choppers were used,
> that just caused, er, "racial" rumblings, too.,....... (More snippage).
> ......
> You wanna head down and deliver into those hot zones?

>Any of you other "blame it on <insert whoever here>" types? Don't see
> any ThaiAir planes loaded with anything coming in or Eric Clapton
> handing out anything on Orleans Avenue...
>
> R
Thanks Richard, for your "hangin' in", and for your willingness to take on
the sometimes very difficult task of educating.

Jack Barnett


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