And we should have had a plan for this! Cities becoming swamps... I lived there -- every weekend for three months a year a computer simulation of this was played.
Not having systems in place to deal with this - when they knew it would only be a matter of a hard enough direct hit (and they knew it was coming), not having properly reinforced the levees when it has been 35 years since Betsy, not being properly prepared when that levee breach that they knew might happen, did happen...
Not having fucking buses on Saturday and Sunday to help people fucking leave...
I don't care about the looters taking TVs - they are in some deep denial as far as what they are actually facing and I am terrified about the level of desperation that is racheting up as the direness of this all becomes apparent.
So yeah - being rich doesn't make us gods. But what the fuck is homeland security when we don't have systems in place to protect the people in the homeland? And money spent on prevention would have made a difference.
no subject
Not having systems in place to deal with this - when they knew it would only be a matter of a hard enough direct hit (and they knew it was coming), not having properly reinforced the levees when it has been 35 years since Betsy, not being properly prepared when that levee breach that they knew might happen, did happen...
Not having fucking buses on Saturday and Sunday to help people fucking leave...
I don't care about the looters taking TVs - they are in some deep denial as far as what they are actually facing and I am terrified about the level of desperation that is racheting up as the direness of this all becomes apparent.
So yeah - being rich doesn't make us gods. But what the fuck is homeland security when we don't have systems in place to protect the people in the homeland? And money spent on prevention would have made a difference.