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September 12, 2005

Who's Slow-- FEMA or the LLMSM Storytellers?

Must read Jack Kelly piece:

Jason van Steenwyk is a Florida Army National Guardsman who has been mobilized six times for hurricane relief. He notes that:

"The federal government pretty much met its standard time lines, but the volume of support provided during the 72-96 hour was unprecedented. The federal response here was faster than Hugo, faster than Andrew, faster than Iniki, faster than Francine and Jeanne."

For instance, it took five days for National Guard troops to arrive in strength on the scene in Homestead, Fla. after Hurricane Andrew hit in 1992. But after Katrina, there was a significant National Guard presence in the afflicted region in three.

Journalists who are long on opinions and short on knowledge have no idea what is involved in moving hundreds of tons of relief supplies into an area the size of England in which power lines are down, telecommunications are out, no gasoline is available, bridges are damaged, roads and airports are covered with debris, and apparently have little interest in finding out.

So they libel as a "national disgrace" the most monumental and successful disaster relief operation in world history.

The only government response that was anywhere near competent was the federal one.

Kelly's Typo Corrected: A brain fart, he says.

He's agreed to be on Hoist the Black Flag next Tuesday.

Oh, and for tomorrow: Annie Jacobsen, author of Terror in the Skies. You will remember her for her expose about the suspected terrorist "dry run" aboard a Northwestern flight about a year back.

Geek Bonus Points! Kelly's article contains a quote from a Guardsman that, as of yet, the military doesn't possess Star Trek "replicators or transporters" allowing them to instantly beam down into the disaster area and start replicatin' up some good Cajun cookin' for the starving victims.


posted by Ace at 12:40 PM
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Note the typo in the source you're linking (Andrew was in 1992).

Posted by: Hubris on September 12, 2005 12:56 PM

http://www.bobharris.com/content/view/637/1/

This guy is asking about the disaster declaration. I've looked into it for a reason why the non-threatened parishes were declared and the threatened ones were not, but haven't come up with anything.

Posted by: rho on September 12, 2005 01:10 PM

The lib media basically influences the profession fo journalism the way that libs influence the profession of government. There's a political genetic defect there. Most people know it as "liberalism" aka "progressivism" and it goes by other names, I hear..

Did you see The Political Teen's video 091205 7:25AM post on "I don't know what today is" Blanco?

Posted by: Sirc_Valence on September 12, 2005 01:20 PM

Ace,

Correction:

I believe Ms. Jacobsen was on a Northwest Airlines (NWA) flight, not Northwestern.

Having said that, wow, Annie Jacobsen!

You've had some really good guests on your show.

Really.

And you're not making "crazy money"?

What gives?

Here I thought I was going to go in to blogging as soon as I was financially independent so as not to have to worry about getting fired for it.

And then from there...

Radio, of course.

Big.Time.Crazy.Money.

...

C'mon Ace, let's be honest.

You're making it, right?

...

Right?

Posted by: MeTooThen on September 12, 2005 01:27 PM

Kelly confirms what I thought all along. The feds were moving along exactly as they should have been. It was only the pathetic failure of the city and state leadership to act effectively that made the feds appear MIA.

And don't you just love all the attacks on Bush for not leaping into action and personally directing the effort from the second Katrina was detected? As if the entire engine of the federal response was napping until he gave the word?

Posted by: epobirs on September 12, 2005 01:44 PM

Kelly's article contains a quote from a Guardsman that, as of yet, the military doesn't possess Star Trek "replicators or transporters" allowing them to instantly beam down into the disaster area and start replicatin' up some good Cajun cookin' for the starving victims.

He's not a Guardsman. He's a former Air Force logistics officer that has a blog.

Posted by: digitalbrownshirt on September 12, 2005 09:53 PM
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