>In all fairness, you can't compare 9/11, and Mayor Giuliani's(sp?) exquisite handling of that situation.
>1) 9/11 happened out-of-the-blue and when it was done, it was done.
>We all went to bed Monday niight thinking NO had done pretty well, only to wake up to breaking levees Tuesday morning.
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>2) 9/11 affected roughly 8 NYC blocks and that was it.
>Katrina afected an area the size of Texas, they say. There is a difference.
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>3) 9/11 killed roughly 3,000 people and injured some 1,000 more, leaving around 8,000,000 other people to take care of things with earnest assistance offered by the entire world too.
>We don't know how many died in NO but we do know that there was nobody around in a position to do anything without power, communications, clear roadways, etc.
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>There simply is no comparison.
>And some part of some "disaster plan" surely had to be in action for the major interstates to have been routed all lanes northward. That doesn't happen magically.

Well, I simply am talking about her demeanor vs Rudy. It'll all get sorted out downrange though.

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>In any case I agree with you and many others that inquiries/commissions/hearings can all come later, when things are well under repair and the more than 1,000,000 people drastically affected by the hurricane have some semblance of normalcy restored.
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>What you and your friends are planning is fantastic and I wish you all great success. Things are starting to look a little bit better for the victims, but they have one hell of a long road ahead of them and help like you are going to do is going to be invaluable in their journey.
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>cheers

Thanks, the only problem is my department (the sheriff) is trying to keep me from taking a group (30 officers on board now) because of politics. We're going anyway. I am retiring and have over 300 hours of vacation time that I will take, so he can . . . . (you get the point)