U.S. more prepared for Gustav, than Katrina: FEMA

[HopeHoops]

Source: Reuters via Yahoo News

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. emergency management agency, harshly criticized for its failures in handling Hurricane Katrina three years ago, said on Saturday it was better prepared for Hurricane Gustav.

Instead of waiting for Gustav to make landfall as it did with Katrina, the Federal Emergency Management Agency has already started...

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080830/us_nm/storm_gustav_fema_dc;_ylt=AivCWDK32HxDYWL4w8CyAs.s0NUE

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shipping poison trailers to swampy fields BEFORE the storm hits!

[notadmblnd]

1. How could you ot be?

Three quarters of NO's population is gone. That alone makes the potential disaster more manageable

[Catch22Dem]

2. I don't see how they couldn't be

Nagin is (rightly) telling people to get their "butts" out of NOLA.

[celestia671]

13. It's too bad..

he didn't say that when Katrina hit. I heard part of his speech last night. He said that the residents of NOLA 'should be scared' and 'this is the storm of the century'.

[Ian David]

3. I'm underwhelmed by their confidence. n/t

[MaineDem]

4. Well I hope so!

I sure hope they learned SOMETHING from the Katrina disaster.

[Fearless]

5. "More" is the operative word.

Hopefully their inability to coordinate an effective levy system in THREE YEARS will not lead to the deaths of many of New Orleans citizens. Unfortunately, I can't hold out hope.

NTF

[Ernesto-Che-Guevara]

6. Translation: The convention is coming so we have to be prepared

it's all politically-driven.

[pattmarty]

7. WELL JESUSFUCKINGCHRIST I HOPE SO!!!!!!!!!

[swimmernsecretsea]

8. Yes, so much more prepared because the last response was...nothing.

No response last time makes anything they do this time a 100% improvement. Simple math. From simple minds.

Fuck you, FEMA.

[Phred42]

9. Bush ‘unlikely’ to attend GOP convention - because of concerns about Hurricane Gustav.

Shit-For-Brians is so very concerned - this time..... uh-huh. Best excuse they could have been given to keep the village idiot away.


http://thinkprogress.org/2008/08/31/bush-unlikely-to-attend-gop-convention/

This morning, White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said that it is “unlikely the president will travel to Minnesota on Monday” because of concerns about Hurricane Gustav. “We are currently preparing alternate plans.” Gustav is expected to make landfall along the Gulf Coast as early as Monday, the same day that President Bush, Laura Bush, and Dick Cheney are scheduled to speak at the Republican National Convention. Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), Cindy McCain, and Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK) are planning to travel to Jackson, MS, today, to receive a Gustav briefing at the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency.

[jus_the_facts]

10. Yeah...won't hold my breath....doubt I'll even believe it if I see it either. n/t

[Imagevision]

11. 1600 hundred died because of Bush failure to lead (Katrina) in the year of an election

everything is carte' blanche

[TankLV]

12. My Golden Retrievers are more prepared for Gustav than the repukes were for Katrina...

OR for Gustav, for that matter...

Let's see - after having been caught DOING NOTHING WHATSOEVER and MAKING THE SITUATION WORSE the last time, to - what - actually getting OUT of bed this time around?!?!

the mind boggles...

[ConcernedCanuk]

14. U.S. more prepared for Gustav, than Katrina - I BELIEVE IT!

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The PNAC gang has all their liars and thieves ready to do a better job of raping it's citizens of it's property and dignity . . .

And the Korporate MEDIA is better trained too,

And Blackwater's mercenaries are all tuned in.

USA

Hitler's Germany reborn..

In MASSIVE deformation.

Adolf Hitler was an amateur,

BFEE are professionals.

[Oak2004]

15. Ummm... bullshit

The same incompetence is in place. The only thing more "prepared" is the spin machine.

[BearSquirrel2]

16. This is how it will be spun ...

Yes, they are more prepared for a category 2 storm than a category 5. Congratulations!!!!