Re: New Orleans


" Jill." <news@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "Jim Webster" <Jim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> > > >Doesn't matter, driver safety etc will limit distance travelled,
> National
> > > >Guardsmen have homes and jobs and familys, so need a degree of
notice.
> > >
> > > A purpose of emergency services is that they don't need notice.
> >
> > Then we don't have emergency services. Certainly in the US the national
> > guard isn't one as these people have day jobs
> >
> Life boatmen don't get notice -- they just go

a thousand miles?
to be away for an unspecificed periord, say a month?

I know the lads round here, they drop everything, put their lives at risk,
with no warning. But they expect to be home within 24hrs

> As do all other emergency services paid or volunteer
> The preparation to go is part of daily training and readiness
>
> > >
> > > >So if
> > > >State governor begs immediately the trucks could perhaps start 24hrs
> > > >afterwards.
> > >
> > > I don't think so long.
> >
> > Remember you have to find a unit in the right area, get the people in,
> > ensure that everyone has their kit, ensure that all the vehicles are
> working
> > (these vehicles tend to get cannibalised for spares due to budget
> problems)
> >
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> That takes a week does it ?
> Balls

I never said a week, I reckoned about three days

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> > >
> > > >Drive to supply dump, collect supplies, drive to scene.
> > >
> > > Certainly large distance may be involved.
> > > > Then
> > > >stop at the edge of the water hoping someone has a chopper etc
> > >
> > > But if the journalists could get in.
> >
> > hey, if you want to get two or three people in with a camera no big
deal.
> I
> > could organise that.
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> What is being pointed out is there was a route !

a route for three men and a camera is not a route for a convoy of thirty ton
lorries and 500 men

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> >
> >
> > >
> > > >Remember a lot of the road driving will be tricky will traffic
fleeing
> in
> > > >opposite direction, roads blocked with junk etc, water, fallen trees
> > >
> > > And how would they cope in a battlefield if they cannot cope with
that?
> >
> > Simple, you can shoot people
>
> doesn't help against roads blocked with junk etc, water, fallen trees.
> And it looks like they are doing that anyway
>
> 6 days to get things really rolling - stinks

Well it took nearly that long for them to admit we had no electric and that
was with full communications network still up!

To haul a lot of kit still takes time and skilled manpower, and there isn't
that much skilled manpower

Jim Webster


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