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Mayor of New Orleans requests haste-People to write letters.
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I will write a letter about how it is that people have warned for years that Katrina might actually visit upon NO the very problems if no one in power actually helped the area get ready. <br /> <br />Sure there are drills, simulations, plans and soothing press conferences. <br /> <br />But when the curtains rise and the orchestra tunes up.. show time. Everyone was asleep at the switch except those who actually took the trouble of getting out of town before Katrina hit. <br /> <br />There will be more storms in the future. We will continue to experience losses of this scale until we as a people understand how best to save a threatened city in a efficient manner. BEFORE such a storm as Katrina arrives. <br /> <br />It is hard to arrange for upgrades and repairs to flood control when the sun is shining. After all it is a nice day outside, let's go visit the pheasants in the park (Which is below water with a hurricane a few days out) and see how everyone is doing. Dont worry about the leaky roof today. Someone can deal with that another time. <br /> <br />I have had experiences where I would eat breakfast in the morning at the foot of a mountain pass in 80 degree weather. Listening to NOAA about the major winter storm at the top of the pass. Then go outside to the truck and get the chains, winter jacket/gloves etc.. ready while folks laughed about it. <br /> <br />When I get to the pass I face winter ready. The ones who laughed at me are now in the shoulders fighting to get traction where there is none and asking for heat, food and water. <br /> <br />I dont know too much about Government doings and pay little attention these days. All I know is we as the people need to watch for these storms and take action ourselves such as evacuating when necessary.. We dont need to wait for Humpty Dumpty to break.
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