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Dave Stadt wrote:
"sfb" wrote in message news:kS7Se.977$IT4.248@trnddc04...
You remember correctly, but it takes time to assemble troops in
armories, load vehicles, and move into the disaster areas clearing
roads
and bridges of debris as necessary.

Six days? That's nuts. Even Bush is saying the time to respond was far
beyond reasonable.

It took 9/11 for us to take terrorism seriously. Perhaps now we will
take civil defense seriously. I live in Boston and while we're not
below sea level, a 20' storm surge (let along dirty bomb or attack on
an LNG terminal) would make one hell of a mess. Now I suspect there

will be a lot more people asking the local gov't just what the plan
would be should we be staring down a similar barrel.

-cwk.

Hopefully from the current disorganized mess some good will come. NO, LA
and the feds were out smoking dope or doing something other that what they
should have been doing. NY handled 9/11 infinitely better and they had no
warning. Granted, the scale is much different. The response to the most
current disaster after several years of homeland security gibberish is
atrocious.