Ray Nagin Offers Public Officials Pointers on Hurricane Preparedness
**Written by Doug Powers
The hurricane is making its first landfall as I write this, and hopefully those of you in the affected areas have either evacuated or taken the proper precautions.
I would have posted this earlier but I didn’t want anybody to confuse it with good advice: MSNBC was discussing Hurricane Irene yesterday, and for pointers on preparedness they turned to… Ray Nagin?
Teasing his Friday 3 p.m. ET hour show on MSNBC, anchor Martin Bashir proclaimed that he would have a special guest on to discuss incoming Hurricane Irene: “Former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin joins us to explain what leaders must do to avoid the mistakes that were made six years ago.”
Bashir was “delighted” to have Nagin on the program and began by asking about the response of political leaders to the storm: “Is it your view, sir, that they are handling preparations for this hurricane in the best way possible?” Bashir followed up by wondering: “…with the benefit of your experience, what are the critical actions that you think need to be taken to ensure that Hurricane Irene, or any other act of mother nature, does not become Katrina, Part II?”
As part of MSNBC’s “what not to do” series, next week they’ll have on the former Captain of the Exxon Valdez to offer pointers every tanker driver should be aware of, and Anthony Weiner will discuss tips for safe Tweeting. Check local listings:
Effects of Hurricane Irene are expected to be felt as far inland as western Pennsylvania, but sources who should never be taken seriously tell me, should that happen, Nagin has graciously offered to help make the city of Hershey chocolate again.
Update: If you’re wondering, this hurricane was caused by Republicans. Wait, which party is “anti-science”?
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School bus Nagin would be the last person I would turn to for advice on hurricane preparedness. Kind of like asking Obama how to improve the economy…..
That receives a snickers bar laugh
Between the earthquake and now especially this Category 1 hurricane, has the government and complicit media adopted Orson Welles original radio broadcast of “War of the Worlds” as the new standard for public announcements?
It used to be that the government would try to keep everyone calm by providing important and useful information and instructions. Today, everything and I mean everything is blown way out of proportion and presented with as much hysteria as possible. Why is that?
Our “cultural elites” have lost their minds. As Robespierre preached during the “Great Terror” of the French Revolution, terror is a virtue. Or so it would seem.
In the end, Hurricane Irene is not much more than a bad rain storm. But it does serve as yet another opportunity for the eco-zealots to go hysterical yet again. How many times can anyone get away with screaming “wolf!”?
Don’t forget about a potential book deal for Casey Anthony’s child-care tips and O.J. selling for Cutco.
Good one Doug.
How about David Brooks advising Romney to get tough on Rick Perry being “ideologically slippery”? So the Romney/Perry fight should be fought on who is the biggest flip-flopper? And this advice from the Fish Wrap of Record’s King of Ideological Slipperiness?
Oh yeah, link.
Hurricane preparation:
1. Don’t listen to anything Chocolate City Nagin says.
I also hope any here are staying safe from the storm. It is amazing when anything like this is all over the news, the networks drag out any human that might have a view on anything to do with said ‘crisis’! I stopped watching Fox several hours ago because they have that slug shep on. They are saying the same thing every ten minutes anyway.
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Masquerading as a public official, Nagin should have been jailed for gross negligence. That incompetent fool has blood on his hands.
Why anyone would want to hear from him is just stupid. Oh wait, he was appearing on MSNBC, never mind.
Not evacuating residents living 19 feet below sea level during a Cat 3 hurricane might be first lesson learned.
How about Tiger Woods as a marriage counselor?
Yes, but we all know it was Bush’s fault.
whats next, having a disgraced ex-governor as a talk show host, oh wait, or having al sharpton as a talk show host, oh wait, i got it, having and inexperienced senator as president, wow, i am having trouble with this.
Obama’s Chicago Guidebook…How to Win an NFC Championship by Jay Cutler
Nagin is a joke. The only thing he could tell others would be his expertise in:
1. Freezing before a crisis
2. Running away from responsibilties
3. Hiding when the going gets tough
4. Having a mental breakdown after the crisis
5. Shifting blame to a MSM-hated foe
BTW, his book is now #98,871 on the Amazon’s best seller list.
Nagin is now trying to sell himself as an expert consultant on disaster preparedness. Caveat emptor to the morons who consider hiring him.
When I read the headline on this blog, I busted out laughing!! Yeah…good one…let’s ask the doofus Mayor of Chocolate City how well that worked out for him.
Than I read on and realized that this was a case of finding out what he DID, so they would know what NOT to do.
I couldn’t believe it when this moron, who obviously cost people their lives, was re-elected! Apparently, New Orleans has been infected with the insanity bug too. I pray the next time they get another “Katrina”, and there will be a next time, that they have someone in charge who has a brain. And that they have a few more people who know enough to grab some formula and diapers when fleeing the storm.
I had an instructor once who sat in the same room as Nagin while they went over a tabletop disaster for New Orleans. What if a hurricane came and the levies breached etc…–Katrina to a tee. Nagin didn’t get it then and blew it royal a year later when the real thing hit. Doubtful he has learned anything by now.
Why would you want an ‘expert’ like Nagin to tell you anything? Are you that damn dumb?
Why not try and find someone with a brain?
On the subject of this storm and when will bho blame all his problems on it, this cartoon has a list of bho’s blames. Might have to add irene to the list soon? Funny from Ramirez.
http://www.investors.com/EditorialCartoons/Cartoon.aspx?id=583043
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It just blows my mind when I see all those lines at the grocery store, stocking up for a few days of “hurricane preparedness”. Anyone with a bit of common sense would know you should have a big larder filled with rations for any crisis! You should have at least enough food and water ON HAND to last a month or two if you are cut off from the world. We buy stuff on sale. Prices are going up. Why wait?? Perhaps going to the store for some bread and milk is prudent. But those grocery carts were piled high and they emptied the shelves. Hoarding during a crisis…the sign of insanity, and totally unnecessary. By Monday, the stores will be open again in most places. Settle down, folks.
I think Mayor Bloomberg attended a Ray Nagin hurricane preparedness class. Bloomberg ordered a quarter-million New Yorkers to go to higher ground, but then admits that “we do not have the manpower to go door to door and drag people out of their homes. Nobody’s going to get fined; nobody’s going to jail.”
This is the first time the city has called for a mandatory evacuation, so the mayor later added this:“This is nothing to take lightly, …We can joke about this Monday morning. But until then it is a matter of life and death.”
American dictators are such great jokers. Ha-ha.
everytime, they show people cutting plywood, and covering windows. you would think anybody living in a hurricane prone location might save the plywood from the last storm. or, they might purchase hurricane shutters, and never need plywood again.
happy,
Your advice is MANY orders of magnitude better and more considered than anything Ray “School Bus” Nagin could ever manage !
peteee,
You would think….., but they obviously don`t ! Besides, shutters are so last century !
And they shouldn’t. Americans have been weathering hurricanes and tornadoes and other natural disasters on their own long before Mayor Bloomersbutt came onto the scene.
Notice how the left is always defensive, not offensive. Their answer to (the fiction of) globular warming is to pull back, adjust our lifestyles and technology to accommodate it. Rather than taking active steps to end or reverse it.
I sarcastically suggested on twitter that, if the ocean is heating up, why don’t we just dump a bunch of dry ice in it? But, as ridiculous (and catastrophic) as that would be, at least it would be doing something to combat the problem.
Irene is such a danger, going to cause so much damage and possible loss of life.
Has anyone considered, while she was still forming out at sea, detonating a MOAB in her eye, or possibly airbursting a tactical nuke in her eye, to disrupt her development, and possibly prevent all that damage and loss of life? If one doesn’t do it, maybe two… or five, or twelve.
Just what pricetag do we put on the potentially lost lives?
Looks like some weather-people are poopooing the hype of Irene. There is so much political points to be had during a crises that almost everyone involved is trying to one-up the other while the true facts as getting squashed.
Sure, there will be heavy rains and gusty winds but come on now….effects all the way to western PA?
The media is so good at exaggerating that they could make 3 days of story out of a Chihuahua’s pile of poo.
Granted, citizens should do what is best for their family.
We have plywood cut, numbered, and stored for all our windows at our home. Almost everyone on our block does also. L
Mayor Bloomberg tells everyone to get out, then shuts down the only mode of transportation most of them have. I agree that the subway system should shut down….just not so soon. People need time to use it to escape. Can’t they wait and shut the dang thing down about 4 hours before the storm hits? Does it take that long to turn off the switches? Maybe I am just not seeing the whole picture. Then, Bloomberg goes on to say that people needing to get out would have to drive or get a cab. Huh?? GET.A.FRICKIN.CAB??? Did he really say that? According to FOX, yes he did. You can’t even get a cab on a slow day in New York City. This could cause more casualties than the actual storm.
I was in NYC for a month in March 1993 when “the storm of the century” hit in the first week. The hysteria was not as bad as this but close. We got a minor snowstorm followed by rain.
In 1978, I was living in Boston during “The Blizzard of ’78″ where the state literally shut down for two weeks. Now THAT was a storm yet there was no hysteria preceding it nor following it.
Now we get annual WHO flu panics, non-stop global warming zealotry, DHS alerts (what are we supposed to do on orange alert again?), debt default warnings, and so on. The path to global government apparently requires complete abandonment of commons sense and civilization.
That is the inevitable result of holding our noses to vote our fears instead of resolving to vote our principles in changing the status quo. Voting Republican is no different that believing that Hillary’s “Reset button” is a real foreign policy.
We are systematically surrendering our civilization to the invisible boogie man for lack of courage and imagination by individuals. It’s all someone else’s fault
I think you forgot your /sarc tag.
Obozo: “I could use the plywood sales as a way to show that I am helping the plywood industry increase jobs”
Advisor: “But Your Grace, Fish & Wildlife are siezing all the plywood and shutting the manufacturers right now. Soros has bought a ton of plywood futures and we needed to create the shortage.”
Obozo: “Hmmmmm. tt is time for me to act decisively. I am going golfing. I have to test my new sand wedge.”
You and your neighbors are calm, rational, foresighted and prepared.
You have no future in government.
Sorry Hiraghm, but you need to cut back on the tube time — you’ve been watching too many sci-fi flicks, such as “The Core.” Could some of the earthquakes now occuring be traced back to the nuclear tests? Mother Nature is too big and tricky to mess with!
Since Katrina generated the same energy as an 8000 megaton nuclear device, you might consder a bigger bomb.
The talking point, “We had to destroy the country save it.” might be needed also
Ray Nagin explains the fallout from Katrina 1 in his own words:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7GcZ7rPfYE
I live in AZ so all we have to contend with is sand storms, electrical storms, flash floods and extreme heat.
That said, it appears this Irene thingy is so big (400 miles across) that it is going to be something that particularly New York, is not at all used to. I think I would take the warnings seriously and get the heck out of dodge, while it’s still possible.
If Staten Island and Manhatten get the brunt of the storm, there could be some major damage and potential loss of life. I hope people in those areas realize the danger.
So! What does that have to do w/ anything..? Lol!
At a web site of the LDS Church’s:
http://www.providentliving.org/
There are links to sections on Home Storage (formerly called “Year’s Supply”, and all members are supposed to have at least 1yr, and more is better…), Emergency Planning, Gardening — all sorts of useful stuff.
In addition, BYU has done loads of research, and the Church has funded research at U of U on food storage techniques, technology, and even more importantly, studies on how long and under what conditions stored food remains potable!
In the longest (so far) study conducted, they found that undamaged commercially canned food remains potable for at least 60yrs, (as I remember).
It does loose some food value, but not as fast as one would think. Home canned food lasts decades, depending on how it is processed and stored. All the Progressive clap-trap with “expiration” dates is generally just wasteful! For example, generally, commercially canned food 1yr after canning loses 2%(and a smidgen) of its value… then it doesn’t even begin to lose an appreciable amount more until more than a decade passes!
Anyway, the site URL I pasted above is for anyone interested in food storage, gardening, family finance, emergency preparednesd, etc. It doesn’t proselytize, doesn’t require purchasing some Mormon thingy. Just information. The Church has been doing this stuff since we moved to The Great Salt Lake Basin. Perhaps before.
Hope it helps!
Can you believe that Ray Nagin would be brought in as a consultant by anyone with their head on straight?
This guy is not only the primary government official responsible for the loss of life during Katrina, but he wouldn’t even accept responsibility for his inaction, any more than the county, or state officials.
Almost as bad as that, the voters went ahead and re-elected him for another term. Now that made a lot of sense.
At least Brownie accepted responsibility as the Director of FEMA. Bush had him fall on his sword for reacting too slowly. FEMA will never make that mistake again, under any President, even Obama.
Mayor Bloomburg: “Everyone evacuate! Run away! Run away!”
New Yorkers: “There are 8 million of us…where are we going and how are we going to get there?”
Bloomburg: “…Hey, did you catch my Spiderman performance. Excuse me…Hey! You! Yes, you! Put down that salt shaker!!!”
This is like asking Bill Clinton on the proper way to enjoy a cigar.
Chocolate City boy weighs in.
Mayor Bloomberg can be found at the Ground Zero Mosque, along with half of the NYFD, personally seeing to its protection from Irene.
It wasn’t the energy as an 8000 megaton nuclear device when it was forming.
Y’all are still suffering from the nuclear boogeyman propaganda. A series of MOABs, or possibly airburst nukes, detonated at carefully determined positions, would definitely disrupt the airflow, even if it wouldn’t dissipate it.
Has anybody even looked into the possibility of disrupting hurricanes before they build up, beyon pooh-pooh any pro-active suggestions for combating them?
I hate tornadoes. I hate them because I can’t fight back. This idea first occurred to me (on a smaller scale) for disbursing tornadoes. I still don’t know if it could work, because I don’t know of anybody trying. But, at least it would be fighting back!
Imagine dropping a device the size of a car from orbit, at an oblique angle into the hurricane as it built, detonating it like a MOAB at just the right moment. The resulting burst should push winds at extremely high speeds in roughly one direction (the direction of re-entry). If that can be set to occur in contra-flow of the hurricane’s rotation, maybe that could dissipate it.
You might as well throw snowballs at a tank. Weapons effects are miniscule in comparison to conditions that create low pressure centers that in tropical regions form into tropical storms and then hurricanes.
Look up Popular Science and similar periodicals 40 years ago and you will see discussions on the same topic.
None have ever proven feasible. The only one I have ever thought had any promise was cloud seeding that the Russians proposed. But still the level of seeding might make even that impractical.
BUT……. not giving up on a solution is a good thing, so keep thinking!
A blowhard giving advice about a blowhard to a blowhard….
Brevity at its best. Hat tip!
Hiraghm,
Always considered it, but from an entirely different angle. One of the clearest examples of energy dissapation is aircraft arresting gear.
Long before there was the E-28* ( land-based Navy installation ) they used, well what would you expect, anchor chains! When the tailhook engages the cross deck pendant, it begins to take up chain on the side of the runway.
However, the first stage of engagement was ridiculously light! Then each successive stage takes up progressively heavier gauges of links. Obviously we can’t stop a Cat 5 dead in its tracks at the point of initial impact but I’ve always felt ( in theory ) if a series of foils or sails were deployed in tandem w/ increasing resistance one could at least disrupt enough of the force to protect the perimeters of populated areas.
The E-28 employed Rotary Hyrdo-dynamic Principles. Just, FYI
So far in Richmond, we’re getting lots of rain and some gusts up to 45-50 mph. Isaballe was way worse.
I just logged onto the sight, and this is a GOTCHA, right??? Maybe just your attempt at humor DOUG??? Neither huh??? Well I myself will let you know when I stop laughing!!!
#3 That was just an early french way of saying, “Never let a crisis go to waste.” Even if you have to manufacture the crisis yourself.
VPat ,
That`s good to hear ! Hopefully, Irene will continue to lose strength and do little damage.
Comments are closed in the Al Gore thread?
Seem to be. Maybe Doug thought we might be nasty to al?
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Bloomberg is doing his best to scare people into fleeing:
Some old-time New Yorkers are having fun thumbing their noses at Bloomberg. If this storm turns out to be a dud, they should should push Bloomberg out into the ocean on the nearest cheap raft.
Looks like the Hamptons will be hit pretty hard. All those mansions. At least they will be safe from looting, as the looters have NO IDEA where the Hamptons are or how to get there!
Good to hear. Stay safe, my friend!
Mayor Bloomberg just told about someone who was critically injured and he said, “He hasn’t died YET, but is badly hurt”. What a doofus!
Wonder why??? That makes no sense to me. We have always been allowed to comment about our old buddy manbearpig. Anyway, we could probably comment here about it, but could get banned for going off-topic. That article was just another example of Gore’s unbelievable hypocrisy. It blows me away that he can say one thing and then turn around and do the opposite. Rules apply to the common people, but he is special, doncha know. A disgusting human being.
Doug would be right.
The progs/Marxists would probably argue with that premise, but what don’t they argue with?
Now you did it! Every crook with a computer will now zoom in.
Truly. And if it wasn’t as horrendous as the media moguls hope for – well It could have been. Saw one news report on the earthquake, with people standing in the street (in a “moderate” earthquake) and the reporter actually said, “If it had been bigger, it would have been worse.”
Perhaps a preview for 2012?
I fault the media for doing a lousy job selecting talking heads. Asking Nagin about preparing for a hurricane is wasted air time. Nagin’s plan was to hope nothing happened.
The comments are open now, so be mean to Spotted Owl Bore all you want !
The only thing the hurricane will do in the Hamptons is unearth more bodies for Nancy Grace to follow up on.
Is this true?? Please tell me this is a Onion story gobe Viral.
US President Barack “Barky” Obama on Saturday personally led his government’s response to Hurricane Irene, marshalling top officials and visiting a disaster command center as the storm roared ashore.
Obama greeted officials at the Super Double Secret Puppet Bunker -(NRCC)- set up at the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) headquarters in Washington, and then held a video conference with federal and state officials.
“You guys are doing a great job obviously,” Obama told a group in the command center. “This is obviously going to be a touch and go.” “And because I need something to lead on the last on my boot licking followers and give more opium for the Liberal masses and to convinve them that I actually can and will do anything to hog the spotlight and make it about me.”
For Gods sake, make it stop. For the sake of the country, Resign now Barky,
Tonight’s PMS-NBC lineup!
Ray Nagin Offers Public Officials Pointers on Hurricane Preparedness
Then at 8, Mrs. O’Leary and her cow will discuss fire prevention.
And at 9, some thoughts from Emelia Erhart on navigation.
Look for this reprise from Wolf Blitzer.
LIVE FROM CNN:
Reporter: “It’s really sad here, Wolf. Dozens of progressives that inherited their wealth are now faced with life-changing decisions. ‘Do I flee in the Ferrari or Rolls Royce? It’s just not fair!’”
Wolf Blitzer: Oh my God! They are so rich…so white…
This is like asking Timmy Geitner how to fill out tax forms.
This is like asking Barney Frank how to seduce a woman.
This like asking Marion Barry to a give drug prevention seminar.
This is like asking ted Kennedy for swimming lessons.
A shining example of a person who will do anything to turn a buck. One credit you have to give Ray Nagin is that he did his very best to make sure that the city treasury was personally licked clean before he left office. In 2008-9 Ray scored trips for himself, family and friends to South Africa, Cuba, Australia, China, Mexico, China again, and Mexico again. Whew, a real world traveler who also did not need to be in town in order to serve in the official capacity as “mayor” of New Orleans. (Of course all of these trips were personal sacrafices by Ray and absolutely necessary for conducting the duties of the office of mayor of New Orleans).
45-50 mph winds? We call that “March”.
There is much deserved razing of places like NYC and Bloomburg and such. By the time it gets up north it will just be a storm with above average rain. The hyping of such by the MSM (local) channels here in the DC area is frustrating.
However. NC and southern VA are having serious problems with flooding and such. This hurricane (still is one btw) is moving very slow and is allowing a large storm surge to accumulate. 80 mph winds is still 80 mph winds. So let’s have some concern for those that are experiencing this thing. My daughter is staying with us while her hubby is deployed out to sea and is in contact with friends in the Norfolk area. The high winds with the flooding is still a real problem.
The media is just fear-crazed for ratings under the guise of public service, and it affects things like our energy policy. Quick — how many lives or lost or injured by the nature-caused nuclear accident (_worst case scenerio TIMES THREE!_) at Fukushima? Give yourself a cigar if you said zero, yet you wouldn’t know it from Japanese media or ours — who only stroke up unwarranted fears not to push more nukes to replace plants which are seriously messing with our lungs on a “normal” DAILY basis!
Thank you Rod at http://atomicinsights.com/
James Greenidge
Queens NY
I arrived in New Orleans 2 months after Katrina and stayed for 4 years. I can say with complete conviction that Ray Nagin is an incompetent, pandering, raaaaacist criminal. Not to mention a first rate a**hole.
Sorry, but Hershey is not an incorporated municipality. It is encompassed by Derry Township, Dauphin County. It is a mailing address. Otherwise, a missile hit!
I’ve been hearing about that fantasy for years.
Say we did develop a way to dissipate hurricanes before they develop. What then?
Hurricanes play a vital role in climate regulation. They’re heat engines that transfer heat from the surface of the earth to the upper atmosphere where it radiates into space. Thunderstorms have the same function. What would be the unintended consequence of shutting down that mechanism?
I remember getting ready to go back overseas back in the 80′s. They were selling Emelia Erhart luggage. I still laugh about that, luggage that never reaches the destination.
Oh, just like flying United
On August 27th, 2011 at 12:21 pm, WaterBoyz said:
Um, yeah. Funny how a person’s astrological sign can be more accurate than some of the weather forecasters’ predictions. /sarc
Ray Nagin got BUSted during Katrina, and he thinks he can give advice?
Now THAT is egotism.
Real global warming with a nice radiation burn?
Then we can see if Godzilla can be real and finish us off.
Nagin is a perfect person to ask. Ask him what he did, and do to the exact opposite. It can’t be any worse.
I heard Mr.(I can’t find drivers for the school bues) Nagin little speech on MS-LSD, I laughed so hard, I wet meself!
Of ALL people to ask! HA!
I think I’ll blame this storm on Obama, the ECO-NUTZ, Al (the global warming cho-hoe) Gore, the JACKAZZ Party, and everthing else except ‘Mother Nature.’
“Da wheels on da bus goes round & round…etc.”
When will they bring on the Marquis de Sade to give advice on Christian love and compassion? The Left is despicable in their unending hubris.
It was the Power of the Sock Puppet and his massive intellect and shear concentration that caused the storm to blow apart before it became a Cat 10. Or some such thing. Bet Moochelle had a large bag of lobster bits to hold her over though.
The incompetence of Nagin in handling Katrina makes him the last person to give advice. His governor at the time would be next on the bottom of the list.
People that keep comparing Katrina to whatever the current storm is do not have a clue about New Orleans. How many major cities are protected by levies to keep water out on a clear day?
BREAKING NEWS. It is Official. The Guinness Book of Records has announced that “storm surge” has been uttered on television by the media 29,673 times over the last 48 hour news cycle. This shatters the previous record held by “unprecedented” at 27,404 for the 48 hours surrounding the inauguration of Barack H. Obama.
Bill Clinton stayed put in the Hamptons. What a man!
I can identify with Eric Fisher’s storm-day coverage:
Out in the wild, life stinks.
Even better than Nagin giving advice….Yahoo news reports: Obama takes charge at hurricane command center
http://news.yahoo.com/obama-takes-charge-hurricane-command-center-172139005.html
This makes me feel SO much safer.
LOL! But is still pales in comparision to the number of times Obama says “I” or “me” in a 20-minute speech.
Anderson Cooper donned a rubber suit and did reporting outside in the teeth of Hurricane Irene. Cooper was rumored to have said, “the allure of a 100 Year Blow was just was just too big an opportunity to pass up.”
That picture of bho at command center is really something isn’t it? The concern on his face, his lower lip in the ‘I am the only one who can save the country’ mode. bho came back Friday, but mo and kids waited till Saturday to get back to that ‘prison’ wh she lives in! Wonder when the next trip mo will plan to get out of dc?
I do hope any here that was in the storm is ok and didn’t have property damage.
L
NotTheMama #90,
After Katrina, a lib buddy (internet and NPR listener) and I were talking about New Orleans when he launched into a tirade about the lousy handling of the crisis by GWB and FEMA. When he finally paused for a breath, I asked if he was aware that N.O. Mayor Ray “School Bus” Nagin and the LA Guv. Blanco had sat on their hands for over 2 days, saying they had everything under control, while GWB and FEMA had numerous relief agencies poised at the state borders waiting for their word to go in and begin to help ? And that GWB had declared a State of Emergency for the Gulf Coast while Katrina was still over FL ?
He of course hadn`t heard that. I told him to listen to someone other than NPR !
I think most of us would gladly donate one final plane trip for the both of them to go back to Chicago…even if they take separate planes! She can leave tomorrow, he can go Tuesday.
Our “Historical Hurricane” here in northern VA (50 miles away from the earthquake epicenter) was a bit of wind and a nice steady drizzle overnight. For THIS I needlessly cancelled a trip to Ohio, where I was supposed to attend a dear friend’s yearly Birthday Luau.
Most of the media coverage for this area was just over-exaggerated hype. It may have been worse on the coast…but many of us who live a bit more inland didn’t even get a decent thunderstorm out of it.
He retrieved it from his bedroom with matching ball gag and nipple clamps.
I read an article 2 years before Katrina (in Time or something) that stated the levies would not hold up to a cat 3 hurricane and the local governments had piddled away money to repair / upgrade them.
NotTheMama #100
I read similar reports as well as reports basically naming names and possible charges to be brought once the investigations were complete. At this rate, I have to wonder if Holder`s DOJ is handling (mis-handling ?) the cases !