That is no excuse. That means POOR planning. Underwater/ground power could be there.
High lines brought in from Baton Rouge just for those...
Bunker buildings for the pumps and generators that would run for a week in bunker oil.

I lived on an island that was 500 yards wide, a mile and a half long.
The closest support was over 1000 miles away.

We were hit by Typhoons and tidal waves. We had to prepare. Boats coming
from Hawaii over 2500 N miles would only get there to search for flosom.

Planning for the worst is fact. The liberal Gov. & Mayor for many many many years
has wasted and not planned on much at all. They were hit by one in what '69 ?
and didn't learn enough from it to plan for a worst case.

No leaders would have been better. The people would have at least known.

Martin
Martin Eastburn
@ home at Lions' Lair with our computer lionslair at consolidated dot net
NRA LOH, NRA Life
NRA Second Amendment Task Force Charter Founder



Cliff wrote:
On Sun, 18 Sep 2005 21:20:12 -0500, "Martin H. Eastburn"
wrote:


I still don't understand why they waited to start pumping. Pump while
the water poured into the city.


With the power out?

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