Katrina: The house guest you knew was coming but didn't prepare

[LynneSin]

I'm so tired of how Bush and repukes say about how we couldn't have know it was this bad. It's a sorry excuse and they should be ashamed of even thinking this.

Of course no one can never know when a Hurricane will touch down on your soil. But hurricanes aren't like Terrorist Attacks & Earthquakes where there is no warning to prepare you ahead of time.

Katrina first popped in the news sometime last week when it disrupted the Miami area and the MTV pre-VMA parties. Yes, we have a hurricane and it's crossing through Florida and yes it does look like this thing is heading back ashore again somewhere on the gulf coast.

So knowing for a week that a hurricane was coming we had time to prepare. Katrina was NOT an uninvited house guest that just showed up on our doorsteps. No, we had a weeks notice that she was coming to visit and that she could would probably be an unruly and demanding house guest. And as her arrival day came closer we knew that she would be a handful and that possibly our home was not prepared for her visit.

Yet despite all these warnings Bush chose to ignore her arrival and enjoy his vacation. When we knew that the New Orleans area was possibly targeted he should have been the first one to suggest checking the Levees and providing assistance to ensure those Levees would help contain Katrina. And he should have asked for more National Guards to be stationed in the Gulf Coast region in order to ensure that every living being was out of harms way.

But instead he vacationed. He knew she was coming and he choose to vacation.

WORST PERSON EVER TO OCCUPY THE WHITE HOUSE (I refuse to call him President - a President would have been a leader as soon as he knew there would be trouble in that region!)

[Dastard Stepchild]

1. I'm not a politician...

And I have no access to really great data, but even I have known for many years that the potential for catastrophe lies in the Gulf region. Especially New Orleans. This reminds me of the deadly heat wave we had here in Chicago in '95. Everyone saying how they could NEVER have expected the fatalities to mount up the way they did. Gee, fellas, if you have people living in an inner city asphalt hellhole, the potential for serious affects on the health is pretty much staring you in the face.

This New Orleans experience reminds me of the Chicago heat wave, but on a much larger, much more catastrophic scale. A whole lot of scrambling, and a whole lot of pointing fingers, and a whole lot of people dying in the process.

:cry:

[DELUSIONAL]

2. A disaster drill could have been run

even a computer simulation -- so that planning could be done.

But then that might have required some funding -- and hell that isn't as fun as invading a country and bombing the crap out the the people.

I've never seen anything so fouled up -- messed up as the rescue (non-rescue) in the Gulf States. New Orleans is just part of the mess.