Re: New Orleans


"Charles Francis" <charles@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> In message <R20rlaADVVGDFw28@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Oz
> <Oz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes
> >Gerald L R Stubbs <stubbs@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes
> >>So what the hell is happening in New Orleans and the coastal districts
> >>adjacent to it ?
> >
> >People have short memories.
> >
> >>When the Tsunami hit the countries around the Indian Ocean, aid was
> >>fairly swiftly supplied.
> >
> >Took many days, actually.
>
> It also took international co-operation, which the US did not require.
>
> >
> >Now consider that:
> >Louisiana 52,000 sq miles
> >Mississippi 48,000 sq miles
> >
> >England 50,000 sq miles
> >
> >Imagine how the UK's infrastructure would be with this sort of rainfall
> >EVERYWHERE. Then add downed powerlines, phonelines and so on as well.
> >
>
> To make a realistic comparison you would have to compare a like
> percentage land mass and like percentage population.

not really, some things are absolute. It takes far more effort to get 1000
tonnes across 100 miles than it does to get 100 tonnes across ten miles


> >
> >Yes. From about day 2.5 the response has been dreadful.
> >However I suspect most counties in louisiana, mississippi and adjacent
> >are quite busy looking after their own problems from the storm.
>
> I think it is the speed of the federal response which is under question,
> from central government using troops stationed in areas not affected.

Michelle will clear this up, but I don't believe Federal can intervene
without being asked? Similarly I believe it has to work through State, it
cannot merely take over

>
> >After all these things happen most years, often several times a year, in
> >the afflicted states. They are (normally) kitted out to handle it.
> >
> >I think the real problem,
>
> I think the real problem was how long it took the Bush administration to
> notice that they weren't kitted out to handle this one. Plus suggestions
> that as it was only a load of poor blacks, they didn't care.

Again, something for Michelle but I suspect federal would be more tender
over 'poor blacks' than a southern state would

Jim Webster


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