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Originally Posted by stevo
You do realize that the federal response to katrina was faster than the federal response to Hugo and Andrew, don't you?
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Well, Stevo - I'll have to look into it a little more to be able to say exactly how to respond to that. I will say it's contrary to everything I've seen, read or heard about this situation and its relationship to previous disaster relieft efforts, but until I've had time to check into it I'll hold my tongue. And that'll have to wait a bit. Dinner plans and such.
I'm assuming the national guardsmen in the first article has an engineering degree, that's for sure.
edit crap, I almost forgot the second part of what I wanted to say. I went through Hugo, and luckily was far enough inland that the worst thing that happened was my jetski got messed up. I understand it was pretty bad in some parts of Hilton Head and so forth - but from my recollection, the aftermath was nothing,
nothing compared to Katrina...primarily because of the New Orleans being 8 ft. below sea level thing, as far as I can tell.