Anyone who’s paid the slightest attention to the GWB administration during its first 4-1/2 years in office knows that this is patently false. There will be no reckoning and no accountability. All “we people” can do about that is scream. Sorry if that offends you.

http://ethesis.blogspot.com/2005/09/time-will-pass-but-i-thought-i-would.html

I suspect that the atomic bomb analogy a bit above is much, much better description; many of the pictures will be more reminiscent of Hiroshima than of Andrew.

2) What is wrong with you people? There will be a time or reckoning, but this is not it. This time is to figure out what can be done and how. Bitching about the government’s large-scale response right now is analogous to saying “Why didn’t they get all those people away from the coastal areas?” the first few days after the tsunami hit. First you save and restore as many as you can; after that you put heads on the chopping block if you feel a need.

absolutely.
[info]slcronin
2005-09-02 15:32 (link)
http://training.fema.gov/EMIWeb/CERT/
http://www.hillsborocert.org/flyerList.htm

CERT (Community Emergency Response Team) is highly recommended. It’s training in how to take care of yourself and help take care of your neighbors for the first several days after a disaster, when it’s likely official help will be overwhelmed. Where I am, the training is free, but even if there isn’t training in your area, the materials are available at the websites above, including information about putting together a 72-hour kit.

Also, the latest update from my husband, who’s still helping at the temporary hospital at the New Orleans Airport: They were completely overwhelmed with patients on Wednesday, never less than 15-20 ambulances waiting in a line to unload patients, 2-3 helicopters at a time, too. More medical teams arrived on Thursday, and there have been national guard there to help keep everyone safe, so things started to get under control. The forestry service arrived Thursday night/Friday morning and set up one of their base of operations for the emergency workers, so they now have beds and showers and meals being prepared for them, which is helping morale a LOT. And what a coincidence, that things started to get under control about 72 hours after the disaster…

http://www.livejournal.com/users/ozarque/144519.html?view=2254983#t2254983

Interesting first person discussion, mixed with various hostile comments towards the current government, etc. by the posters there (the post itself that I am quoting is by http://www.livejournal.com/users/slcronin/ )

Of course New Orleans isn’t the only place striken. The entire delta area has really taken it hard.

It is really too bad that they got a CAT 5 swell and that they got more than the 20,000 or so people they expected to get left behind.

June 25, 1948: General Lucius D. Clay gives the order to launch a massive airlift to fly supplies into the Western-held sectors of Berlin

June 26, 1948: the first airplane carrying food and supplies touches down in the Western sector of Berlin

The airlift was symbolic. The real supplies came in by canal, we were prepared to engage in limited strategic nuclear warfare if those were closed.

Too bad New Orleans isn’t near a body of water.

““our government isn’t doing anything” is the most fanciful statement I’ve ever seen.”

thomas, thomas, stop exaggerating: it makes you look slightly dumb.

Of course you don’t mean to blame those on the front lines. But those are precisely the people who planned for this, and who are executing the plan. Now, you are honest when you say you don’t mean to blame them, but that’s just to say that you mean only to blame the Hated Chimp, or whatever you idiots are referring to him as today. And, as I said, that’s great—blame Bush all you want for this. But do it rationally: say something like, he’s lost the Mandate of Heaven. Now, obviously that’s not itself rational, but it makes a hell of a lot more sense than spouting on and on about things that you don’t know about, and in the process insulting precisely those people you say you don’t mean to insult.

“our government isn’t doing anything” is the most fanciful statement I’ve ever seen.

Where’s Alan Greenspan again? I hope he’s watching the live video feed! If you’re not watching tv, how do you know what’s happening?

Well, what, exactly? Beyond using what little impotent power I have to get a rise out of someone where I can actually see it happen?

So I’m giving money to ACORN instead. And I was going to leave it at that and walk away, but the last word’s all too tempting. I mean, I gotta take my hat off to you, you sad-sack we-couldn’t-ever-have-done-any-better-so-why-the-fuck-bother sonofabitch: you’ve pushed me to the point where I’m on the same goddamn side as Newt fucking Gingrich:

Even Republicans were criticizing Bush and his administration for the sluggish relief effort. “I think it puts into question all of the Homeland Security and Northern Command planning for the last four years, because if we can’t respond faster than this to an event we saw coming across the Gulf for days, then why do we think we’re prepared to respond to a nuclear or biological attack?” said former House Speaker Newt Gingrich.

So kudos, but remember this: we’re not laughing with you. We’re laughing at you.

It’s that or break down crying.

And one day later we’re hearing the President pat his flunky on the head and give him a cookie, and I quote: “You’re doing a great job, Brownie!”

Mistakes have been made. Stuff happens. Now watch this drive.

and the problem, according to the Bushistas here, is the irrational hatred of Bush on the left.
What a world.