On Mon, 12 Sep 2005 19:10:51 GMT, Brian <b_heller@earthlink.net>
wrote:

>By the way, the Washington Post has an excellent in-depth article about
>the failures that went into the Katrina preparations/recovery. You have
>to register to read articles at the Post, but I've never, ever received
>one piece of spam from that registration. Check here:
>
><http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...09/10/AR200509
>1001529.html>

With this link you can read the following, registered or not (page 4):

<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/10/AR2005091001529_4.html>

"The only thing I can say to them is I hope they have a hotel room,
and it's a least on the third floor and up," Nagin said.
"Unfortunately, unless they can rent a car to get out of town, which I
doubt they can at this point, they're probably in the position of
riding the storm out."

In fact, while the last regularly scheduled train out of town had left
a few hours earlier, Amtrak had decided to run a "dead-head" train
that evening to move equipment out of the city. It was headed for high
ground in Macomb, Miss., and it had room for several hundred
passengers. "We offered the city the opportunity to take evacuees out
of harm's way," said Amtrak spokesman Cliff Black. "The city
declined."

So the ghost train left New Orleans at 8:30 p.m., with no passengers
on board."

From the same link (page 5):

"At the Superdome, city officials reckoned that 9,000 people had
arrived by evening to ride out the storm. FEMA had sent seven trailers
full of food and water -- enough, it estimated, to supply two days of
food for as many as 22,000 people and three days of water for 30,000.
Ebbert said he knew conditions in the Superdome would be "horrible,"
but Hurricane Pam had predicted a massive federal response within two
days, and Ebbert said the city's plan was to "hang in there for 48
hours and wait for the cavalry."




-- msosborn at msosborn dot com

 

On Mon, 12 Sep 2005 19:10:51 GMT, Brian <b_heller@earthlink.net>
wrote:

>By the way, the Washington Post has an excellent in-depth article about
>the failures that went into the Katrina preparations/recovery. You have
>to register to read articles at the Post, but I've never, ever received
>one piece of spam from that registration. Check here:
>
><http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...09/10/AR200509
>1001529.html>

With this link you can read the following, registered or not (page 4):

<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/10/AR2005091001529_4.html>

"The only thing I can say to them is I hope they have a hotel room,
and it's a least on the third floor and up," Nagin said.
"Unfortunately, unless they can rent a car to get out of town, which I
doubt they can at this point, they're probably in the position of
riding the storm out."

In fact, while the last regularly scheduled train out of town had left
a few hours earlier, Amtrak had decided to run a "dead-head" train
that evening to move equipment out of the city. It was headed for high
ground in Macomb, Miss., and it had room for several hundred
passengers. "We offered the city the opportunity to take evacuees out
of harm's way," said Amtrak spokesman Cliff Black. "The city
declined."

So the ghost train left New Orleans at 8:30 p.m., with no passengers
on board."

From the same link (page 5):

"At the Superdome, city officials reckoned that 9,000 people had
arrived by evening to ride out the storm. FEMA had sent seven trailers
full of food and water -- enough, it estimated, to supply two days of
food for as many as 22,000 people and three days of water for 30,000.
Ebbert said he knew conditions in the Superdome would be "horrible,"
but Hurricane Pam had predicted a massive federal response within two
days, and Ebbert said the city's plan was to "hang in there for 48
hours and wait for the cavalry."




-- msosborn at msosborn dot com

 

On Mon, 12 Sep 2005 19:10:51 GMT, Brian <b_heller@earthlink.net>
wrote:

>By the way, the Washington Post has an excellent in-depth article about
>the failures that went into the Katrina preparations/recovery. You have
>to register to read articles at the Post, but I've never, ever received
>one piece of spam from that registration. Check here:
>
><http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...09/10/AR200509
>1001529.html>

With this link you can read the following, registered or not (page 4):

<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/10/AR2005091001529_4.html>

"The only thing I can say to them is I hope they have a hotel room,
and it's a least on the third floor and up," Nagin said.
"Unfortunately, unless they can rent a car to get out of town, which I
doubt they can at this point, they're probably in the position of
riding the storm out."

In fact, while the last regularly scheduled train out of town had left
a few hours earlier, Amtrak had decided to run a "dead-head" train
that evening to move equipment out of the city. It was headed for high
ground in Macomb, Miss., and it had room for several hundred
passengers. "We offered the city the opportunity to take evacuees out
of harm's way," said Amtrak spokesman Cliff Black. "The city
declined."

So the ghost train left New Orleans at 8:30 p.m., with no passengers
on board."

From the same link (page 5):

"At the Superdome, city officials reckoned that 9,000 people had
arrived by evening to ride out the storm. FEMA had sent seven trailers
full of food and water -- enough, it estimated, to supply two days of
food for as many as 22,000 people and three days of water for 30,000.
Ebbert said he knew conditions in the Superdome would be "horrible,"
but Hurricane Pam had predicted a massive federal response within two
days, and Ebbert said the city's plan was to "hang in there for 48
hours and wait for the cavalry."




-- msosborn at msosborn dot com