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Posted by Matt from CT on August 31, 2005 at 12:15:33 from (66.181.93.142):
In Reply to: Re: OT: Hurricane damage in the South posted by T_Bone on August 31, 2005 at 09:28:50:
>I would expect the goverment engineers to be >able to predict just how much additional water >can the Lake could take before the dikes gave >way They did. The dikes, according to the Army Corps of Engineer official on NPR this morning were designed for a Category 3 storm. They held for over 24 hours beyond their design capacity. Now why you'd only protect New Orleans, a major city sitting on the coast below sea level, with only Cat 3 levees I don't know! >thus demand total evacuation and send >troops to see that order is carried out. Can't agree with you there. You can send in troops to go door to door and assist & encourage. If someone doesn't want to leave, the Government should have neither the duty to protect them or an obligation to rescue them. >WE spent billions of dollars after 911 to get >ready to react in a monments notice too such a >disaster and were nowhere closer now than we >was then. That's sad. Yes and no... Even sending resources to within 300 miles is problematic logistically -- hurricanes can move erratically, and even if you start mobilizing them towards a forward staging area, you could see staging locations change. Putting the units on standby in Phoenix and Boston to prepare to deploy...fine. Actually going airborne? Wait till you have a firm plan based on what you see, not what you guess. Response to major disasters like this -- whether man made or Mother Nature -- depend on local/regional/state resources to handle them for the first 48-72 hours.
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