Klarinet Archive - Posting 000000.txt from 2005/09

From: Tom Wood <n4cid1@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] BRSO Auditions 2nd Clarinet Tenure Position...
Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2005 07:38:32 -0400

I would just remind everyone that it takes at least 3 days to evacuate
New Orleans and the areas between NO and the Gulf of Mexico. And that
requires a near 'perfect' evacuation, everyone doing as instructed by
the civil authorities. According to the TV networks thousands of people
were still inching along the evacuation highways Sunday night as the
storm approached!

I would expect the evacuation time will be extended...........

Tom W

Karl Krelove wrote:

> It is worth considering that at least 12 - maybe as many as 18 - hours
> before the storm hit, tracking radar showed that the storm center was
> changing course such that it was going to pass east of New Orleans,
> which would have been hit with the weaker western side of the storm.
> And, indeed, that's exactly what happened. As of late Monday night all
> reports were that the city had missed taking the beating that had been
> feared a couple of days earlier. So, well before the "last minute"
> many people may have decided with some apparent reason that the danger
> didn't justify leaving after all, and the authorities would have had
> to spend a great deal of energy and man-hours finding these people in
> order to forcibly evacuate them, man-hours that it appeared were
> needed more to help those who were leaving. In fact, the flooding that
> now has destroyed so much of the city is the result of the failure and
> breach of two of the levees that contained Lake Pontchartrain and kept
> it from flooding the city, not of the actual wind and rain that had by
> that time passed the city by without flooding and mass destruction.
>
> The cities and beaches along the Mississippi coastline are another
> story, and the finger pointing there has already started.
>
> Karl Krelove
>
> Joseph Wakeling wrote:
>
>>
>> Not good enough IMO. The authorities *have* to take direct
>> responsibility for people's safety in a situation like this. It's
>> not good enough to simply leave each private individual to do things
>> for themselves. To what extent was there an official evacuation plan
>> and facilities put in place to facilitate people leaving? To what
>> extent was the city capable of dealing with eleventh-hour evacuations
>> for people who changed their minds at the last minute? To what
>> extent did the authorities recognise the seriousness of the threat
>> enough to understand that in such circumstances it would be
>> reasonable to *oblige*, rather than advise, people to evacuate?
>>
>> "Advising" just undersells the seriousness of the situation. I can't
>> help but believe that in most first world countries people would have
>> been told: You *must* get out now because if you don't there is a
>> high chance you will end up dead. And adequate facilities would have
>> been put in place to *make* that evacuation happen.
>
>

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