Re: Experts: Models predicted New Orleans disaster

Anonymous via the Cypherpunks Tonga Remailer wrote:
> http://www.cnn.com/2005/WEATHER/09/0...eut/index.html
>
> WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- Virtually everything that has happened in New
> Orleans since Hurricane Katrina struck was predicted by experts and in
> computer models, so emergency management specialists wonder why
> authorities were so unprepared.

Guess who couldn't predict it

"I don't think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees. They did
anticipate a serious storm. But these levees got breached. And as a
result, much of New Orleans is flooded. And now we are having to deal
with it and will."

"His statement gives us pause; is our predictive technology that
rudimentary? No, we know better, our technology is top notch. But did
decades of loud clamoring for levee repairs go unheard? No, we heard
the warnings. Are we then left to question the acuity our leader? "Not
anticipated", "could not have predicted"...Its business as usual."

Somebody should give that man a newspaper and a television, that's all
they were talking about as the storm approached.

Someone should inform the Dept of Homeland security that FEMA did
scenarios involving "Hurricane Pam"--a serious hurricane hitting New
Orleans.

Rearranging bureaucratic boxes is the way they respond to any disaster,
it gives the appearance they are doing something. Sept 11 moved FEMA
from cabinet level to under Homeland Insecurity. They dropped the ball
this time. I wonder what their plan is for the first week after a
biological attack.

Next they'll be blaming faulty intelligence

Dennis

den73740@aol.com wrote:

> Anonymous via the Cypherpunks Tonga Remailer wrote:
>
>>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WEATHER/09/0...eut/index.html
>>
>>WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- Virtually everything that has happened in New
>>Orleans since Hurricane Katrina struck was predicted by experts and in
>>computer models, so emergency management specialists wonder why
>>authorities were so unprepared.
>
>
> Guess who couldn't predict it
>
> "I don't think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees. They did
> anticipate a serious storm. But these levees got breached. And as a
> result, much of New Orleans is flooded. And now we are having to deal
> with it and will."
>
> "His statement gives us pause; is our predictive technology that
> rudimentary? No, we know better, our technology is top notch. But did
> decades of loud clamoring for levee repairs go unheard? No, we heard
> the warnings. Are we then left to question the acuity our leader? "Not
> anticipated", "could not have predicted"...Its business as usual."
>
> Somebody should give that man a newspaper and a television, that's all
> they were talking about as the storm approached.
>
> Someone should inform the Dept of Homeland security that FEMA did
> scenarios involving "Hurricane Pam"--a serious hurricane hitting New
> Orleans.
>
> Rearranging bureaucratic boxes is the way they respond to any disaster,
> it gives the appearance they are doing something. Sept 11 moved FEMA
> from cabinet level to under Homeland Insecurity. They dropped the ball
> this time. I wonder what their plan is for the first week after a
> biological attack.
>
> Next they'll be blaming faulty intelligence
>
> Dennis
>
You'd better be able to take care of yourself for the first week.

Food, water, defense, medical needs, sanitary needs, etc.

I plan on a month. With guests.

But they say I am paranoid.



--

Rest assured: I am up to something

dazed and confuzzed wrote:
>
> But they say I am paranoid.
>
Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get you.

I think you have this planned just right.

George

"dazed and confuzzed" <dedmann@comcast_remove.net> wrote in message
news:hIydnfAJm5JuX4HeRVn-gw@comcast.com...

> Where do you stop?

Total nuclear annihilation. My preparations and plans always end up as me
being the last man alive on Earth and the only other survivors being a cast
of Vegas showgirls that hid away inside a casino vault. It's imperative
that I get the vault open before they suffocate so I always add
safe-cracking tools to my save-a-disaster kit.

Greg Mossman wrote:
> "dazed and confuzzed" <dedmann@comcast_remove.net> wrote in message
> news:hIydnfAJm5JuX4HeRVn-gw@comcast.com...
>
>
>>Where do you stop?
>
>
> Total nuclear annihilation. My preparations and plans always end up as me
> being the last man alive on Earth and the only other survivors being a cast
> of Vegas showgirls that hid away inside a casino vault. It's imperative
> that I get the vault open before they suffocate so I always add
> safe-cracking tools to my save-a-disaster kit.
>
>
no doubt.


You just hope that in such a sitation there is a bar handy......Or a
liquor store.



--

Rest assured: I am up to something

"dazed and confuzzed" <dedmann@comcast_remove.net> wrote in message
news:VpOdnU_14ebLUYHeRVn-1g@comcast.com...

>> Total nuclear annihilation. My preparations and plans always end up as
>> me being the last man alive on Earth and the only other survivors being a
>> cast of Vegas showgirls that hid away inside a casino vault. It's
>> imperative that I get the vault open before they suffocate so I always
>> add safe-cracking tools to my save-a-disaster kit.

> You just hope that in such a sitation there is a bar handy......Or a
> liquor store.

That's another reason why I end up in the casino. If the showgirls die
before I can get to them, I spend my last days alone and very drunk.

"Limey" <davidflies@noatt.crapnet> wrote in message
news:N0hTe.15229$qY1.2867@bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net...
>
> "Greg Mossman" <mossman@qnet.com> wrote
>
>
>> I spend my last days alone and very drunk.
>>
> I thought Chris Wolf was back fer a second there.

I'm the vastly more sensible version.

"Greg Mossman" wrote in message news:11hph41d7pkh3aa@corp.supernews.com...
> Total nuclear annihilation. My preparations and plans always end up as me
> being the last man alive on Earth

And that terrifies you since there would be no one else left to sue?

"Greg Mossman" <mossman@qnet.com> wrote


> I spend my last days alone and very drunk.
>
I thought Chris Wolf was back fer a second there.

LD.

"Greg Mossman" <mossman@qnet.com> wrote in message
news:11hr98kc0nna067@corp.supernews.com...
> "Limey" <davidflies@noatt.crapnet> wrote in message
> news:N0hTe.15229$qY1.2867@bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net...
>>
>> "Greg Mossman" <mossman@qnet.com> wrote
>>
>>
>>> I spend my last days alone and very drunk.
>>>
>> I thought Chris Wolf was back fer a second there.
>
> I'm the vastly more sensible version.
>
I'da given ya lots more credit than that.

LD.