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Old 09-02-2005, 07:52 PM  
spunkmaster
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The federal response to a disaster is 5-7 days.

The mayor told everyone on Sat/Sun to have food and water for 5-7 days
because it will take that long for help to arrive.

The last big hurricane in Florida it took the feds about 4 days to
get in there so this is pretty much right on schedule and this is with
preplanning and staging.

What's a total breakdown is the city and the mayors actions.
The city could have used school buses starting on Saturday to
get people out like their disaster plan calls for !

They could have used ambulances to take out critical hospital patients
but they chose to ignore the evacuation because they wanted two more days
of tourist money !
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