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Monday, September 12, 2005

Senator Landreieu on FEMA Director Michael Brown 
"We are fortunate to have an able and experienced director of FEMA who has been with us on the ground for some time."

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/11/national/nationalspecial/11response.html?pagewanted=2&ei=5090&en=fb3db5ce85bd72f4&ex=1284091200&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss


I'm just sayin, y'know?

Seems like their tune changed in Louisiana when it was time to start ducking for political cover. Will editors make a note of Senator Landrieu's remarks down the road? Well, the NY Times, has, to their credit. (The article doesn't mention that Nagin allowed hundreds of busses to go unused during the evacuation, and then lost them by failing to move them out of the affected area.)

Seems like people liked Brown. If relief was REALLY slow in coming, if the Federal Government was NOT meeting its standard timelines, then I doubt Sen. Landrieu and Governor Blanco would be standing shoulder to shoulder issuing statements like this in the early stages of the storm.

The same article also states that Col Terry Ebbert, the LA state Director of Homeland Security, had been on the job for two years, and had never discussed the state's disaster plan with FEMA.

Pardon me, but just what the f*** was he doing on the payroll for two years?

The article also mentions that "only a fraction of the busses promised by FEMA had arrived." But later in the article, we learn that FEMA did not recieve a request from the state for bus support until wednesday, August 31st, the day AFTER the city was flooded. FEMA contracted with Greyhound, who was able to get busses in to New Orleans on the very same day, within 2 hours of getting FEMA approval. That's pretty good response at the Federal level. Pathetic at the state level.

Governor Blanco did not sign an executive order requiring parishes to turn over their busses until sometime later, according to the article, well after the city was already flooded and most roads had become useless.

Splash, out

Jason

Comments:
Well, gee. It doesn't make much sense to martial the busses AFTER the city is flooded, does it? You have to do it BEFORE the hurricane. Had he done it BEFORE the hurricane made landfall, then NONE of the city would have been flooded. So his whole argument is a red herring.

I read somewhere that he had over 500 municipal busses, but that figure may be incorrect. It sounds high for a city of that size.

But it's surprising and disappointing that no contingency plan existed for making use of school busses in an emergency such as this one.
 
I agree that sounds like a perfectly reasonable bit of preparedness to use transit and school buses. I also know from tracking SF schools issues for years now that in SF the school busses are all owned and operated by Laidlaw. The schools contract out the service. Using the Laidlaw fleet for emergency response either before or after the event would end up being a supplement to that contract -- which is between the school district and Laidlaw. So a thrid party -- police, EMS,??? -- would end up at the table. And don't leave the bus drivers union out of the picture.

I see a mess. I see $$$. Should be simple. But nothing ever is...

Transit busses should be easier to include in preparedness planning. Might be a regional transit district, but that shouldn't make that much of a difference. As for the fleet not being adequate, seems like any ray of hope, any early sign that there were efforts being made to find better shelter for the folks in the dome or the convention center would have made an important difference. Sounds like Nagin is thinking that too in retrospect.
 
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