How New Orleans is being handled.

[MalReynolds]

I found this on another site, and I thought that it made a lot of sense. I'm removing the statements about Kayne West because at this point, they are irrellevant.

I don't think most people understand the delay in reaching everyone hit by Katrina.
A. The area destroyed is roughly the size of the ENTIRE United kingdom. no country on Earth keeps enough back-up supplies and rations to deal with a situation of this magnitude.
B. You can't drive down the streets to rescue, you must use small fishing boats or helicopters to rescue the thousands and thousands (and thousands) of people and you are looking at 4,5, or 6 people per boat/copter at most each trip. How many trips do you think it would take these small boats? They can only go so many miles before they run out of gas, and the debris most likely blocks most streets. And when you add idiots shooting at the rescuers, well these arent navy seals going in here, most are emt's or just average unarmed people trying to save lives.
C. Should the Mayor/Governor/President evacuate the entire south coastal area states everytime a hurricane approaches? Do you know how many hurricanes come ashore every year? People wouldn't listen, because the looters would stay and go nuts, as you saw here.
D. The people were told TO LEAVE THE AREA, they choose not to, or unfortunatly they were too poor or unable to leave.

And, I read somewhere on here that someone is saying that Bush spent more than 48% of his presidency on vacation? That simply cannot be true. That statistic is staggering. It's true that he's taken more vacation time than any other president, but half of his presidency is a bit ludicrus.

Anyways, the point in the post is that while our reaction was slow, it was also slowed by the magnitude of this event. I don't think anyone in New Orleans expected it to be as bad as it was. I don't think, no matter how much of an idiot he is, the President really knew how bad it was going to be. I know I didn't, and I'm a well informed youth. All I thought was, "Well, this is another hurricane in hurricane season. Best brace myself for storms the blow up north."

No matter how badly this was "bungled" or "handled poorly", I think that what is most important is what's happening now. I didn't see anyone on here get up in arms when this was actually happening. I saw posts about "Sluts: Ladies, Keep on Truckin" but I didn't see anything about how the aftermath was being handled... That is, until newscasters started talking about how poorly it was being handled.

But I digress... I think the situation was shitty to begin with. But it's not like the President was being malicious, sitting in the White House rubbing his hands together and laughing at the tragedy. Mobilizing troops takes time...

And I didn't think they would need to be moblized.

Mal

PS: Don't delete this. I put a lot of time into it.