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Yeah, someone named Nagin ordered these a couple years ago.
(Forklift with sandbags)
picture: dunno source, via our lolcat builder. lol caption: Foamer
Clarence Ray Nagin, Jr., the mayor of New Orleans blamed some of the extensive damage caused by Hurricane Katrina to failure to patch a levee with sandbags after the helicopters that were supposed to deliver them were diverted for rescue efforts.
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Better late than never ?!
There you go, conservatives! A non-librul capshun!
Wonder if any stuck around to see this…..
My leaning is somewhere to the right of Atila the Hun and I find this site poking fun at everyone. Funny is funny.
Yes, the very first one!
Getting there …
I don’t get it.
Hurricane Katrina reference. Ray Nagin was mayor of New Orleans at the time and failed miserable in preparing his city for the coming onslaught.
When I posted that comment, I hadn’t yet noticed the blurb under the pic…
He failed miserably in resolving the situation, too. It is first and foremost the responsiblity of the local government to resolve a situation. If they need help, they call the state. If they STILL need help, they call the feds. In the wake of Katrina, people called outright for the feds and then called Bush a n00b for not helping in time. In reality, he was just following procedure.
I don’t even know how Nagin got reelected. Perhaps all the New Orleans residents who gave a flip were still in Houston draining their resources.
Funny, his father followed procedure when FL got nailed with a hurricane, and _he_ got help there within days. Yet it took Dubya weeks. Odd, that.
Also odd that he managed to get a whole lot more aid to Mississippi and its Republican governor than to Louisiana and its Democrat governor. What part of “procedure” dictated that, I wonder?
Great now we need it in Iowa with in a few years.
i snorted. very funny!
The difference between New Orleans and Iowa is that the people showed up in massive numbers to put those sandbags together. Some levee’s broke added to the water cresting higher than planned, but those people did everything within their power to save their homes. And while the sandbagging didn’t keep water from getting in to their homes, (the water rose higher than expected) it did prevent the current from damaging their foundations, making their homes salvageable.
Nagan could learn a lesson or two from Iowa. http://www.press-citizen.com
No, but wait…. Isn’t the government supposed to do that?
They did. Most of the bagging sites in IA were either local or state sites. And providing the sacks and the sand, etc. Disaster Response Win.
Uh, I seem to remember that the levees in New Orleans failed right after a Force 4 Hurricane — that’s a little different from stacking sandbags in sunny weather to keep a river (as opposed to the Gulf of Mexico) out of your back yard.
Also, as I recall, the levees that failed in New Orleans collapsed because their foundations were not strong enough. Piling bags on a levee that is failing at its bottom isn’t going to do any good.
Yeah, but it’s so much easier to blame the residents of New Orleans for the disaster. You notice no one is saying Oh we shouldn’t rebuild in Cedar Rapids because it’s on a flood plain.
Yeah but it’s better protection than nothing when water comes creeping up your lawn. Trust me, I know.
Finally! Damn!
nagin who?