Blog-IT-o ergo sum

	9/7/2005

Notes on Evacuation Planning in New Orleans

"If you are somebody who is 350 pounds, it will obviously take more force to move you than if you are 150 pounds," the chief said.

Note: That equation only works if the guy who is 150 pounds is unarmed. Or, his neighbors do not have batteries for their video cameras.

11:16:12 PM

comment []

Dead Bodies in the Media

Since he was a player in the infamous Willy Hammer "interview" Mark Tapscott caught my attention here;

Mark Tapscott, a former editor at the Washington Times newspaper who now deals with media issues at the Heritage Foundation, said the FEMA decision did not amount to censorship.

"Let's not make a common decency issue into a censorship issue," Tapscott said. "Nobody wants to wake up in the morning and see their dead uncle on the front page. That's just common decency."

Of course it is still OK to show the dead uncle of a foreigner on the front page of a US newspaper.

8:42:04 PM

comment []

New Orleans Mayor to Enforce Evacuations

AP - 1 hour, 26 minutes ago

NEW ORLEANS - To the estimated 10,000 residents still believed to be holed up in this ruined city, the mayor had a blunt new warning: Get out now or risk being taken out by force. As floodwaters began to slowly recede with the first of the city's pumps returning to operation, Mayor C. Ray Nagin authorized law enforcement officers and the U.S. military to force the evacuation of all residents who refuse to heed orders to leave. Police Capt. Marlon Defillo said that forced removal of citizens had not yet begun. "That's an absolute last resort," he said.

The same public officials and staff that screwed up will now fix the situation without the aid of the private individuals who have the most vested interest to see that things are handled properly and effeciently.

12:37:19 PM

comment []