Klarinet Archive - Posting 000047.txt from 2005/09

From: "danyel" <rab@-----.de>
Subj: Re: [kl] Assistance for hurricane/flooding victims
Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2005 18:31:47 -0400

One of the African-American spokespersons (of the "Black Caucus") pointed
out that the Israelis airlifted 40000 Yemenite Jews in 1948 from one day to
the other; picture what kind of equipment they had back than and what
infrastructure!

Best,
danyel
www.echoton.de/clar.html

>
> I've heard many people cry that the "government" should have "gone in"
> and taken care of these people. Let us please remember that this storm
> destroyed the roads, the port, the power, the communications systems,
> the water supply, the major buildings, and the airport. 80% of the city
> was under water, some of it as much as ten or twelve feet deep. There
> were darned few places to land a helicopter in the flooded areas, much
> less a fleet of them. You aren't going to just drive 3,000 busses into
> 8 feet of water to haul people out. It's true that CNN was able to get
> their cameras and reporters in there, but it's much easier to get a team
> of 5 in and out than to get a population of 200,000.
>
> I don't argue that there were mistakes made in the first days, but this
> was a logistical problem of nightmarish proportions, and I think some of
> this 20/20 hindsight is ignoring the facts.
>
> --
> Tim Roberts, timr@-----.com
> Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.
>
>
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