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Requests for national guard troops from president bush and ordered total evacuation of the city. the mayor and governor waited to take necessary action to protect their citizens until the event happened. they were unprepared for what happened. 3,000 people never left. they didn t get out in time. instead they wound up on the roofs with signs that said, save me. 35,000 out the superdome and 25,000 more at the convention center. a little preparation could have saved much of new orleans, and much more importantly the people in it. what if new orleans listened to and acted upon all the advice from the engineers over the years since the 1950s telling them that the levees would not hold? what if they prepared for a disaster by fixing that fundamental problem instead of squandering the money? even i warned about the levees. it warned about the levees almost one year to the day ....
Wouldn t you question the motive of someone telling you not to prepare? two days before hurricane katrina hit new orleans on august 27, 2005, the national hurricane director max mayfield called mayor nagin to advise him to order mandatory evacuation, get everybody out. what did mayor nagin do instead? he declared a state of emergency and urged residents in low-lying area to evacuate. new orleans is in a bowl. all of it. shouldn t you tell everybody to get out? remember unused buses under water. and category four hurricane katrina made landfall in louisiana. president bush declared state of emergency for louisiana and mississippi. the same day. katrina ripped two holes in the superdome roof and two days later, kathleen blanco requests for national guard ....
Troops from president bush and ordered total evacuation of the city. the mayor and governor waited to take necessary action to protect their citizens until the event happened. they were unprepared for what happened. 3,000 people never left. they didn t get out in time. instead they wound up on the roofs with signs that said, save me. 35,000 out the superdome and 25,000 more at the convention center. a little preparation could have saved much of new orleans, and much more importantly the people in it. what if new orleans listened to and acted upon all the advice from the engineers over the years since the 1950s telling them that the levees would not hold? what if they prepared for a disaster by fixing that fundamental problem instead of squandering the money? even i warned about the levees. it warned about the levees almost one year to the day ....
mr. chairman, it is my belief that fema did a good job in the gulf states. i very strongly personally regret that i was unable to persuade governor blanco and mayor nagin to sit down, get over their differences and work together. what was mobilized? i mean, were national guard troops in position? were helicopters standing by? were buses ready to take people away? no. none of that. none of that. none of that. why is that? i don t know. that is a question for somebody else. that is a question for somebody else. don t look at me. more recently in the wake of this big financial crisis wall street executives at firms like goldman sachs have perfected the shaggy defense. we did not cause the financial crisis. i do not think that we did anything wrong. ....
Defense. mr. chairman, it is my belief that fema did a good job in the gulf states. i very strongly personally regret that i was unable to persuade governor blanco and mayor nagin to sit down, get over their differences and work together. what was mobilized? i mean, were national guard troops in position? were helicopters standing by? were buses ready to take people away? no. none of that. none of that. none of that. why is that? i don t know. that is a question for somebody else. that is a question for somebody else. don t look at me. more recently in the wake of this big financial crisis wall street executives at firms like goldman sachs have perfected the shaggy defense. we did not cause the financial crisis. i do not think that we did anything wrong. regret to me means something ....