Klarinet Archive - Posting 000051.txt from 2005/09

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausmann1@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] RE: klarinet Digest 6 Sep 2005 21:01:01 -0000 Issue
Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2005 20:46:04 -0400

At 03:22 PM 9/6/2005 -0700, Michael Henry wrote:
>Dionysus wrote:
>
>
> > Shame on the Governor of Louisiana for not accepting the Government's
> > help in the early evacuation of New Orleans. The Government offered
> > 48 hours before Katrina hit to lead the evacuation of New Orleans, but
>
> > because of her own political reasons, she choose not to accept
>
>What utter nonsense. Pure rubbish. A bald-faced lie. You should be
>ashamed.
>
>Dionysus, you might want to put down your glass of Kool-Aid and take a
>look at the following document. It's a copy of the Louisiana Governor's
>August 28th request to the idiot in the White House who did nothing for
>a nearly a week thereafter, asking that he declare an "expedited major
>disaster for the State of Louisiana" and also requesting "federal
>assistance for work and services to save lives and protect property."
>
>http://gov.louisiana.gov/Disaster%20Relief%20Request.pdf

All of that was DONE. But the assistance to assist evacuation was not
accepted until too late. School busses that MIGHT have been used for
evacuation were left sitting idle to be flooded. The Feds did what was
requested. That may well not have been enough, but nobody foresaw (or
could have foreseen) the full magnitude of the disaster.

Bill Hausmann

If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is TOO LOUD!

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