Out for Rita

[Kosila]

Lots of good wishes to all who will be affected. I hope it dies down before it reaches land.

[Ash]

Ket,

I was the one who posted about the hurricane of so many years ago and I agree that there should have been a greater response to the Katrina disaster but that being said you have to understand how completely overwhelmed the government was when this happened. Being a first responder myself and having seen such devestation first hand (9/11 in DC) I know how difficult it can be to coordinate major rescue operations.  It is true that mock scenerios about major hurricane disasters have been played out over and over, but when it came to Katrina and its aftermath there was no prerequisite.   Both the Federal and state governments have hundreds of books on exact measures of response for almost every known type of disaster but like life, not everything is found in those pages.  And unfortunately FEMA simply is not a "thinking outside of the box" kind of machine and when you have a situation that calls for a response that isn't  set upon in some guidline notebook you are gonna run into a few hiccups.  It was a devestating occurance but the governmens both state and federal were just "out-paced" on this one.

Like all things related to evolution we either change or we die.  By that I mean that we either learn from the missteps of our response or we shall ever be doomed to repeat them.  Classic example is Hurricane Rita; I can guarantee you that the Governmental response to this storm will be everything that the response to Katrina was not.

**Looks down, realizes he's on a soap box and steps off**

[Ketamininja]

Hehe, no all fair comments there...

I was more interested in your reaction to Kyoto treaty vs Global Warming vs Hurricanes, and your feelings on that. My talk is all acedemic, I think the Kyoto treaty is being screpped for something else.....

The response to Katrina is certainly a hot topic I think..., but yeah I agree RIta will have a bigger response, if the worst should happen.

[Anonymous]

to anyone down in that region, stay safe

[Anonymous]

hah, holy shit, until just now, after all this time, I never knew ket was from outside the us.

anyway, I wish well to those who might be affected by this storm. between all these hurricanes and the earthquakes, among all the other stuff or other natural disasters on their way, I wonder if it's not so much god, but mother nature or the planet trying to cleanse itself after all the shit we've done to it.

or maybe Ive just been playing FF7 too much this week. haha.