Relief Effort Needs Better Leadership

Where is the leadership that those poor folks in NewOrleans need right now. Why are people who try to walk out of the horrendous conditions of that area being turned back? Why is it taking so long to provide some relief to those poor folks down there who are stranded, starving, dehydrating and dieing?

Wake up Governor Blanco, these are not rhetorical questions! Someone has to take charge in a public mannor. When plans are made the people who will benefit most from them must be informed of them so they can help make the effort more efficient. I say, "So they can help...". Yes, Governor and FEMA director there are allot of thugs running around New Orleans... LEAVE THEM THERE when ever you guys get around to moving people.

The Good people will only be too willing to comply with any directions you give them. When they ask questions and get, " I don't know!" as an answer, or they get ignored then they become disgruntled. Governor Blanco, Put yourself in there shoes! How fast would you want to be helped? Would you want to bre one of those people stranded and dieing on that overpass?

You should be doing allot more than saying, "I requested 40,000 guardsmen." You should be constantly insisting, and pushing relief efforts.

Find as many staging areas in the area you can find. if you cant find areas that are unflooded, then get some of them sandbags to use as walls around large parkinglots. Then you can get portable generators to run pumps and pump out all the water from the walled off areas. Then Fly in supplies. Set up a very large tent for the seriously injured. You will have the generators there to run fans and communications equipement.

It goes without saying that Guard personell would have to be present to keep the site from being overrun with citizens.
Duplicate this near the superdome, and the convention center.

You could order that helocopers fly over flodded areas and drop self-inflating boats near stranded people. a person in the helocopter could pull the chord as he/she dropps it. This would enable the able to row themselves toward the superdome and free up choppers to pick up more needy people. You might have to drop notes with directions telling those people to row toward the superdome.

You have got to move them busses! Stop the Cluster f#%# and get in there, pick-em up then get out. The bus drivers can simply pick up the first people they come across on the highway as an attempt to curb people banging on the sides of the bus. At the superdome, in a coordinated schedule, groups of people can be released in lots to walk toward a staging point some distance away to load themselves on the busses. 60 people at a time can be released to fill the busses one at a time in an orderly fashion.

That's all for now, my wife wants to use the phone so I have to get off the computer.