Comments | pianoboy1601: Saturation....

pianoboy1601

Saturation....

Sep 02, 2005 23:41

If you haven't seen hurricane updates in the news somehow in the past 24 hours you live in a hole. It's plastered all over the media worse than a hollywood sex scandal, except this time it has merit as a news story.....or does it ( Read more... )

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nukem_454 September 3 2005, 05:13:23 UTC

I've often wondered the same thing.

kittiness September 3 2005, 05:23:33 UTC

very well said, my dear. ever think about submitting this to technews? we'd love the article, and it pays $15...

lizabean September 3 2005, 13:31:55 UTC

not that i'm entirely disagreeing with what you say, and i don't claim to be following the story very closely but ( ... )

fieldsclaphands September 4 2005, 05:18:30 UTC

I was actually about to respond with something very similar. Case in point this time around: Miami.

And for some people, the risk of the hurricane's coming and damage just doesn't outweigh leaving and having your home succeptible of looters. Some corporations probably didn't want all of their workers to leave as well due to just a threat. Why threaten operations when there might have been no need?

Also, the final, official call to evacuate came during work hours and by the time everyone was out of work, it was too late to evacuate.

Bitch after the fact... that hasn't been done b4 at all anonymous September 5 2005, 04:57:55 UTC

There are a lot of people that don't own cars and use public transportation to travel. When the mandatory evacuation was announced, (which contrary to the other comment was Sunday morning and Katrina made landfall on Monday morning), there was not a single rental car to be had. All of the businesses had closed down. And, the airport had been sandbagged closed. Tourists upon tourists, (because that is one of New Orleans biggest industries) were stranded, so they were told to stay in there hotels above the fifth floor and hotel staff was considered emergency personal. Other people were told to go to the Superdome because at least they would be above water level ( ... )

Re: Bitch after the fact... that hasn't been done b4 at all griton September 5 2005, 05:11:23 UTC

"you don't look smarter than everyone else."
Neither do you, not having the guts to put your name on your heavily biased anti-government opinion. If you're going to say something powerful, and want anyone to take it with any kind of credibility, you better be able to stand by it. Instead you sound like every other textbook anarchist out there.

Re: Bitch after the fact... that hasn't been done b4 at all pianoboy1601 September 5 2005, 21:09:45 UTC

This post was never about judging or predicting. It was my own personal intial reaction to a truly horrific event that I would never wish upon anyone. In my mind, the whole situation just seemed so overwhelming and I didn't know how to react other than my gut feeling. Yes, there was human error not only in responding to the threat beforehand, as well as poor execution in recovery afterwards. Many other people have commented about different scenarios that I had left out or not realized and they have very valid points that I respect ( ... )