OOps! My survivalist reference was to being prepared BEFORE the hurricane hit. My point is that there is blame on many levels, not just Bush and the politicos.
I DO know what it is like to huddle in the hurricane winds wondering not only if I would survive, but when the winds would stop. We were not able to get out with Frances because of both wrong information and too many people in wheelchairs to fit into a two seater S-10 pickup. In that situation when you are in a doublewide mobile home surrounded by big trees, many of them jack oaks and pines, you do also wonder about what will be left for the next day if you survive, should you try to tie a bucket out or wait a while and is there any way to capture some of this water to use to clean up without blowing away. I have been there and done that.
I have also lived in tornado country and there is a big difference between hurricanes and tornados. Hurricanes tend to move much more slowly, have higher sustained winds for a longer period of time and dump much more water on the area. It was two days with Frances before the utility company trucks could even start out because of the continuing bands of wind and rain. That is why I think that some of the expectations of the sheltered survivors were also somewhat unreasonable.
I am not criticizing the people's actions during the height of the storm, but after when many just sat and waited for someone else to help them, and I am not talking about those in the Superdome, but in the streets and in the Convention Center which is NOT the Superdome.
My point was that pre-planning was woeful. The Superdome was not even supposed to be a shelter, except a shelter of last resort and there just weren't supplies there. The Red Cross just didn't think that there were any safe shelters in N.O. so set up none. That bothers me somehow.
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I DO know what it is like to huddle in the hurricane winds wondering not only if I would survive, but when the winds would stop. We were not able to get out with Frances because of both wrong information and too many people in wheelchairs to fit into a two seater S-10 pickup. In that situation when you are in a doublewide mobile home surrounded by big trees, many of them jack oaks and pines, you do also wonder about what will be left for the next day if you survive, should you try to tie a bucket out or wait a while and is there any way to capture some of this water to use to clean up without blowing away. I have been there and done that.
I have also lived in tornado country and there is a big difference between hurricanes and tornados. Hurricanes tend to move much more slowly, have higher sustained winds for a longer period of time and dump much more water on the area. It was two days with Frances before the utility company trucks could even start out because of the continuing bands of wind and rain. That is why I think that some of the expectations of the sheltered survivors were also somewhat unreasonable.
I am not criticizing the people's actions during the height of the storm, but after when many just sat and waited for someone else to help them, and I am not talking about those in the Superdome, but in the streets and in the Convention Center which is NOT the Superdome.
My point was that pre-planning was woeful. The Superdome was not even supposed to be a shelter, except a shelter of last resort and there just weren't supplies there. The Red Cross just didn't think that there were any safe shelters in N.O. so set up none. That bothers me somehow.