Karen wrote:
> How B wrote:
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>>Chrissy Cruiser wrote:
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>>>Many times on this newsgroup I forewarned that the literal billions of $$$
>>>spent on natural or planned disaster (relief, recovery, preparedness,
>>>evacuation, etc) was a near complete waste. I have sat in the offices of
>>>DHS NOLA, Emergency Management LA and countless other fed and state
>>>agencies. They had the models of this calamity and they had the resources
>>>to prepare for it. They, for whatever reasons, chose not to.
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>>Right arm Chrissy. From the NY Times this morning:
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>>"Before 9/11 the Federal Emergency Management Agency listed the three
>>most likely catastrophic disasters facing America: a terrorist attack on
>>New York, a major earthquake in San Francisco and a hurricane strike on
>>New Orleans. 'The New Orleans hurricane scenario,' The Houston Chronicle
>>wrote in December 2001, 'may be the deadliest of all.' It described a
>>potential catastrophe very much like the one now happening."
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>>"Last year James Lee Witt, who won bipartisan praise for his leadership
>>of the agency during the Clinton years, said at a Congressional hearing:
>>'I am extremely concerned that the ability of our nation to prepare for
>>and respond to disasters has been sharply eroded. I hear from emergency
>>managers, local and state leaders, and first responders nearly every day
>>that the FEMA they knew and worked well with has now disappeared.'"
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>>How B
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> Love her or hate her, CC can be exasperatingly right most of the time.
> That seems to bother a lot of people here.
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When she wants to be informative and state her points eloquently, she
can. She turns people off when she goes into attack/irreverent/provoke
mode accompanied with foul language.
> Godspeed (or whatever the agnostic expression is), Chrissy Cruiser, as
> you go off to work.
Solid post. This goes way beyond our leisure hobby interests. Hopefully,
this is an eye-opening reality for some who view the world through stars
and stripes colored eye glasses.
Ben
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> Karen
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