[Vision2020] Disaster Response

Thu Sep 8 16:47:03 PDT 2005

Yes, there are some other cities that have problems. This is an opportunity to fix this one. 
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Janesta Carcich 
  To: Pat Kraut ; vision2020 
  Sent: Tuesday, September 06, 2005 1:01 PM
  Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Disaster Response

  Pat,

  Google, "New Orleans levee cutbacks"

  In this link, you will find some light reading for your afternoon pleasure... More specifically how The Army Corps of Engineers requested $27 million to pay for hurricane protection projects. Bush wanted to give them a paltry $3.9 million. Congress eventually gave them $5.7 million.

  http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-050831corps-story,1,2364215.story?coll=chi-news-hed

  Do you REALLY, in your deepest heart of hearts think that any other large city in the United States is prepared for a disaster of this magnitude? I think not! For pity sakes the head of FEMA has NO experience in natural disaster aid AT ALL prior to taking this job!!!.

  Janesta Carcich

  Pat Kraut <pkraut at moscow.com> wrote:
    You cannot understand me at all! I am heartbroken by all the death and
    destruction. I HAVE been poor and really in trouble, yes that means lost
    house, unable to take care of my kids and part of my heartbreak for others
    is the choices that the powerful people make. Those choices of allowing
    people to keep living in an area so dangerous. Storms come every year. That
    part of the city was under sea level and the levees have broken before SO,
    why were they still there. Why is there still talk about letting them go
    back. It was truly worse for them in Louisiana and if it is better in Texas
    YES they should stay. And I cannot understand why you think that means that
    Mrs Bush wouldn't be aware of that difference for them. So many people are
    stepping up to help and doing all they can. Yes, I am a stubborn strong
    willed person and I would have done anyth! ing to take care of my kids
    including leaving by what ever means possible, filling a water jug and
    breaking into a store for food. And I would be willing to hit the mayor
    first for there being no place for me to go to and no food or water there
    for me/us when we got there! Especially since it is his city and he knew it
    would happen. Whatever responsibility the Feds bare for this will be
    discussed and addressed you can be sure. But for me the city was totally
    unprepared and that should have been the first line of defense. You cannot
    understand someone from what you think you know from a few posts on this
    site or any other.
    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: "Tom Hansen" 
    To: "'Melynda Huskey'" ;

    Sent: Tuesday, September 06, 2005 12:20 PM
    Subject: RE: [Vision2020] Disaster Response

    Thank you, Melynda.

    It is painfully clear, the difference in attitu! de between Ms Kraut's posting
    and Melynda's reminder, the mindset of "me" versus "we".

    Thanks again, Melynda.

    Tom Hansen
    Moscow, Idaho

    "If not us, who?
    If not now, when?"

    - Unknown

    -----Original Message-----
    From: vision2020-bounces at moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces at moscow.com]
    On Behalf Of Melynda Huskey
    Sent: Tuesday, September 06, 2005 11:11 AM
    To: vision2020 at moscow.com
    Subject: [Vision2020] Disaster Response

    I'm often floored by what I read on Vision 2020--I think we all must be,
    from time to time, regardless of our political/religious/philosophical
    positions.

    Today, though, I just have to say, and I'm choosing these words carefully:

    What the fuck is the matter with people?

    Pat, do you really, really think that the people of New Orleans are dying of
    thirst because they were too lazy or too stupid (or maybe too black, which
    is what your admittedly obscure reference to the ! Civil War seems to imply)
    to fill milk jugs with water?

    And although it's not fair to hold Jeff Harkins accountable for words he
    didn't intend me to see, is it a failure of "self-reliance" on the part of
    Gulf Coast residents which is killing them now?

    Can anyone seriously be saying to him- or herself, "Well, the official death
    toll is 58, and we'll just hope it doesn't rise"?

    Or, "Well, they chose to live in a coastal city, so of course they deserve
    to drown, die of thirst, or watch their children perish in agony."

    Please think about what you're saying. Please.

    These are real people, and they are suffering and dying. They have lost
    everything they had in the world. Please take two minutes to imagine
    yourself in the situation of any of these wretched people: imagine just for
    a moment that your own house is filling with filthy, contaminated water,
    that you have no way to contact anyone for help, nowhere to go. No food, nowater, no medicine, no shelter. Dead bodies floating past you.

    The only personal responsibility which ought to concern us fortunate ones in
    this situation is our personal responsibility to help those who are in
    trouble.

    Melynda Huskey

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  Janesta Carcich

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