WTF? NO Police evacuating?

[preciousdove]

MSNBC TV just said that tourists evacuated from their hotel came across three buses idling and they asked the bus driver if they could buy tickets and were told that the buses were for NO police officers and their family.

He also said that that another crew was stopped at the border of MS and told they couldn't get to Boloxi because the NG was going through but when they went in they saw NO guard at all.

Are they planning to wait for the people to panic and send in the Army with assault rifles? They can get buses in for the police but not water? I do not WANT to understand what they are making happen.

[madeline_con]

1. My take...

the cops are taking care of their own, and somehow chartered buses to get out.

It might not be a federal government operation. (?)

[donheld]

3. You are accusing NOLA cops of being shady to say the least.

:sarcasm: Now we ALL know those cops down there are model citizens. :sarcasm:

[madeline_con]

4. The military's moving in... someday.

The local cops want no part of that. Martial Law, chaos, bodies floating around in chest high water.

Yep, I'd definitely leave if I could find a way out of town.

[applegrove]

2. I see police families being sent out. How can the police do their

jobs if they are worried about protecting & rescuing their own families.

[madeline_con]

5. Just the families, then?

[applegrove]

6. Yup. Unless each and every single cop will be replaced by the army

20 times over by 3:00 AM today. I could see that policing might break down too. Everything else has. How can you police when you cannot call for back-up. You cannot call anything in. You have no place to put people you arrest. You have no gas. All these issues scream out for the army with their logistics and command structure and numbers. That is when the troops get sent in.

So I am no expert. But I want to see the army there in no time. I'm sure all the Iraq veterans will be thrilled to go to NO. Much safer, in their numbers, than Iraq.

I want as few people dead as possible. The army better be there tomorrow. Or I will scream.

[madeline_con]

7. "So I am no expert."

We both see the logic in what you just posted, though.

[applegrove]

8. My first attempt of advice to save NO involved opening the dikes to

get rid of putrid water. Somehow I assumed most would be evacuated in a timely fashion and cholera would be the biggest threat. I am no expert. I assure you.

[madeline_con]

9. Some had no way to leave, and no place to go.

I think what's shocking to some people is just how many of them there were.

It got to the point where money didn't make some people better off, when the airports closed and there were no car rentals.

[applegrove]

11. yes and I just realized that some people had no insurance so they

would have been terrified to leave what little they have. Much different to leave your home if you are "covered". We make assumptions. We don't know what all comes into play.

[Pallas180]

10. Homeland Security, trained First Responders. I posted the

same thing awhile ago.

We're (Americans) on our own in any disaster. That's what is being shown.

So much for Homeland Security.

And just heard Pennsylvania is sending 2500 National Guard.

Seems to me bushco may have left each state with 2500 National Guard, or maybe 5000 each and the rest are in Iraq.