Dave Land wrote: > On Sep 6, 2005, at 10:26 AM, Alberto Monteiro wrote: > >> Dave Land wrote: >> >>> These are leaders who defined national security in terms of 9/11. >>> The question is whether we will insist that the blighters we put >>> in >>> their places can think in terms of 8/29, too. >> >> I feel sorry for the victims, but wasn´t here an alarm, calling >> for evacuation from the city _3 days_ before Katrina hit? > > Yeah, but a lot of the ones who remained behind did so because they > do > not have cars or financial means to get out otherwise. And despite > the > fact that the levees were known to many officials and readers of the > NO Times-Picayune to be questionable, I'm pretty sure that the > average > person-on-the-street believed that when the storm only grazed NO, > they > were out of danger. When President Bush misspoke that nobody could > have expected the levees to fail, I'm willing to bet that he was > speaking a general truth; most people did not expect the levees to > fail, so they may have thought they'd wait it out. >
There is a bit of misinformation that is being spread around. The actual levees held and have not been a problem. What everyone is seeing on TV is a break in a canal wall and that is not a levee. There is a report I saw that relates an eyewitness who claims that a loose barge is what broke the canal wall. It has not been substatiated AFAIK, and may not be for a while since the guy was rescued and evacuated who knows where. xponent Sorry To Barge In Maru rob _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
