Tweety LIED - Bush received Hurricane Disaster Plan in June 2004 ($500k)

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IEM Team to Develop Catastrophic Hurricane Disaster Plan for New Orleans & Southeast Louisiana
June 3, 2004

IEM, Inc., the Baton Rouge-based emergency management and homeland security consultant, will lead the development of a catastrophic hurricane disaster plan for Southeast Louisiana and the City of New Orleans under a more than half a million dollar contract with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security/Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).

In making the announcement today on behalf of teaming partners Dewberry, URS Corporation and James Lee Witt Associates, IEM Director of Homeland Security Wayne Thomas explained that the development of a base catastrophic hurricane disaster plan has urgency due to the recent start of the annual hurricane season which runs through November. National weather experts are predicting an above normal Atlantic hurricane season with six to eight hurricanes, of which three could be categorized as major.

The IEM team will complete a functional exercise on a catastrophic hurricane strike in Southeast Louisiana and use results to develop a response and recovery plan. A catastrophic event is one that can overwhelm State, local and private capabilities so quickly that communities could be devastated without Federal assistance and multi-agency planning and preparedness.

Thomas said that the greater New Orleans area is one of the nation’s most vulnerable locations for hurricane landfall.

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http://www.ieminc.com/Whats_New/Press_Releases/pressrelease060304_Catastrophic.htm


SO why did Bush cut the NO hurricane planning funding after giving such a juicy contract to James Lee Witt's company ????????????

something doesn't add up...................

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1. All the money went to "Binders" and "Power Point" charts?

:banghead: I swear I'm wearing out this smilie this week.

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2. Bush also was given an early 2001 briefing on NO Hurricane disaster

possibilities...

3 scenarios for US Disasters to plan for:

* New York terror attack - check

* NO Hurricane (energy impact) check check

* San Fran Massive Earthquake

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3. kick...why did Bush slash fubding for something sooo IMPORTANT