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Originally posted by Harry Moon
Seems to me the the blame, if there should be blame, belongs to those who had the responsability to enforce the evacuation. If the thousands of people had been properly evacuated before the storm hit, there would have been a lot less loss of life and the disaster response could have been less over burdened.
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Those are my thoughts too, Harry, except I'd rephrase to "PROVIDE" EVACUATION rather than enforce it. There was no transportation plan or vehicles immediately provided for transporting evacuees when the "mandatory" evacuation was given.
Thousands of people would not, will not have suffered and died, had the order come WITH the means of evacuating.
I'm stunned, still, and horrified at what can only be incompetance and irresponsibility with peoples lives.
The powers that be that didn't fulfill their responsibilities along the "loops" certainly owe a huge debt to these people they failed ... nothing in the world can make up for deaths that never had to be.
Yes, I'm extremely disturbed by the mind-boggling not handling, and bad handling at the local level ... and the consequences on those who have lost their family and loved ones.
As for "John Wayne" Lt. General Russel Honore ... hot damn, can they clone him and put many "hims" in charge of everything? If so, our world will work and have heart.
Karmen