New Orleans Officials July 2005: Hurricane? You're On Your Own

[PittsburghAfterDark]

NEW ORLEANS FLASHBACK: OFFICALS WARNED RESIDENTS 'YOU'LL BE ON YOUR OWN'
Mon Sep 05 2005 18:57:15 ET

Before residents had ever heard the words "Hurricane Katrina," the New Orleans TIMES-PICAYUNE ran a story warning residents: If you stay behind during a big storm, you'll be on your own!

Editors at TIMES-PICAYUNE on Monday called for every official at the Federal Emergency Management Agency to be fired. In an open letter to President Bush, the paper said: "Our people deserved rescuing. Many who could have been were not. That's to the government's shame."

But the TIMES-PICAYUNE published a story on July 24, 2005 stating: City, state and federal emergency officials are preparing to give a historically blunt message: "In the event of a major hurricane, you're on your own."

Staff writer Bruce Nolan reported some 7 weeks before Katrina: "In scripted appearances being recorded now, officials such as Mayor Ray Nagin, local Red Cross Executive Director Kay Wilkins and City Council President Oliver Thomas drive home the word that the city does not have the resources to move out of harm's way an estimated 134,000 people without transportation."

"In the video, made by the anti-poverty agency Total Community Action, they urge those people to make arrangements now by finding their own ways to leave the city in the event of an evacuation.

"You're responsible for your safety, and you should be responsible for the person next to you," Wilkins said in an interview. "If you have some room to get that person out of town, the Red Cross will have a space for that person outside the area. We can help you."
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"Hurricane" Ray Nagin rockin' atcha! Poor!? Vote for him! Wanna die? Vote for him! He's black dammit! He's a Democrat! That's all that matters!

We'll bus you to the polls but we won't bus you out of town if your life depends on it. You'll drown.... just like city busses!

WOOOOOHOOOOOO MAYOR RAY ROCKS!

 

[mykevermin]

[quote name='PittsburghAfterDark']Staff writer Bruce Nolan reported some 7 weeks before Katrina: "In scripted appearances being recorded now, officials such as Mayor Ray Nagin, local Red Cross Executive Director Kay Wilkins and City Council President Oliver Thomas drive home the word that the city does not have the resources to move out of harm's way an estimated 134,000 people without transportation."[/QUOTE]

This quote does an excellent job reinforcing the budget troubles that NO has had due to money for the levee project being reappropriated to pay for the Iraq war.

So, in short, thank you for providing further evidence that we should all be appalled at the long tradition of neglect at the federal level.

 

[PittsburghAfterDark]

Uh.... uh.... levee project? Mentioned where? Budget figures cited? Proof you have? Sources you can identify? Iraq war brought up by who?

You're stretching a whole lot here.

 

[Quackzilla]

 

[mykevermin]

[quote name='PittsburghAfterDark']Uh.... uh.... levee project? Mentioned where? Budget figures cited? Proof you have? Sources you can identify? Iraq war brought up by who?

You're stretching a whole lot here.[/QUOTE]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050901/pl_nm/weather_katrina_funding_dc

PAD, while your rhetoric this past week has made me consider putting you on ignore, I somehow can't completely rationalize that. You exhibit fleeting moments of insight that show me you aren't a complete "scrubking," if you will.

With that in mind, I wonder if you even read the news. How in the world do you consider yourself a politically aware and up-to-date person, while claiming that you don't know anything about budget cuts to fund the building of the levees in NO?

There are budget figures and proof. I'm not going to hold my breath waiting for you to retract anything. I am willing to wager $5 that somehow your next post will involve something unrelated to my points, instead braying about school buses, however. I'm well aware of how you work.

 

[dennis_t]

And quite frankly, PAD, every disaster zone contains people who could not get out for various reasons.

You seem to be arguing that it isn't the federal government's obligation to go in and help those people before they start dying.

And, as far back as I can recall, it's always been the federal government that was the first ones in, as state and local governments are almost always overwhelmed by regional disasters such as this one.

Why weren't they there this time? And why isn't anyone being held accountable?

 

[evanft]

Wow...ANOTHER lame thread where you get owned. What is this? 3, 4 in a row?

 

[Derwood43]

[quote name='Quackzilla']

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Honestly.

This is the THIRD time you've posted this in the VS. forums. It has lost all comedic value.

Give it a rest.

 

[Derwood43]

[quote name='PittsburghAfterDark']NEW ORLEANS FLASHBACK: OFFICALS WARNED RESIDENTS 'YOU'LL BE ON YOUR OWN'
Mon Sep 05 2005 18:57:15 ET

Before residents had ever heard the words "Hurricane Katrina," the New Orleans TIMES-PICAYUNE ran a story warning residents: If you stay behind during a big storm, you'll be on your own!

Editors at TIMES-PICAYUNE on Monday called for every official at the Federal Emergency Management Agency to be fired. In an open letter to President Bush, the paper said: "Our people deserved rescuing. Many who could have been were not. That's to the government's shame."

But the TIMES-PICAYUNE published a story on July 24, 2005 stating: City, state and federal emergency officials are preparing to give a historically blunt message: "In the event of a major hurricane, you're on your own."

Staff writer Bruce Nolan reported some 7 weeks before Katrina: "In scripted appearances being recorded now, officials such as Mayor Ray Nagin, local Red Cross Executive Director Kay Wilkins and City Council President Oliver Thomas drive home the word that the city does not have the resources to move out of harm's way an estimated 134,000 people without transportation."

"In the video, made by the anti-poverty agency Total Community Action, they urge those people to make arrangements now by finding their own ways to leave the city in the event of an evacuation.

"You're responsible for your safety, and you should be responsible for the person next to you," Wilkins said in an interview. "If you have some room to get that person out of town, the Red Cross will have a space for that person outside the area. We can help you."
Link

"Hurricane" Ray Nagin rockin' atcha! Poor!? Vote for him! Wanna die? Vote for him! He's black dammit! He's a Democrat! That's all that matters!

We'll bus you to the polls but we won't bus you out of town if your life depends on it. You'll drown.... just like city busses!

WOOOOOHOOOOOO MAYOR RAY ROCKS![/QUOTE]

The real Bruce Nolan