It's not the government's job. The government's job is to govern. Organizations like FEMA and the CDC are set up to deal with disaster relief. They're PART of the government, but not the whole.
Why aren't they evacuating everyone? They can't. Plain and simple. It is not physically possible to get to some parts of New Orleans just yet, and they're working on that. The military is literally chainsawing their way in from the coast because downed trees and debris make it impossible to get to the urban areas.
My first instinct is: Why aren't the people of New Orleans doing something about it besides sitting around and dying? If you can't walk, crawl. If you can't crawl, swim. If you can't swim, make a raft. If you don't know how to start a fire and boil water so it's safe to drink, if you don't know the importance of staying warm without electric power, if you don't know elementary first aid -- these are the things that keep you alive in this apocalyptic situation.
I agree that the important thing to do is get those people out who can't/won't evacuate themselves. Once as many living people are out of the disaster area as can be moved, THEN go to the secondary and far less important business of re-establishing the city.
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Date: 2005-09-02 12:48 pm (UTC)Why aren't they evacuating everyone? They can't. Plain and simple. It is not physically possible to get to some parts of New Orleans just yet, and they're working on that. The military is literally chainsawing their way in from the coast because downed trees and debris make it impossible to get to the urban areas.
My first instinct is: Why aren't the people of New Orleans doing something about it besides sitting around and dying? If you can't walk, crawl. If you can't crawl, swim. If you can't swim, make a raft. If you don't know how to start a fire and boil water so it's safe to drink, if you don't know the importance of staying warm without electric power, if you don't know elementary first aid -- these are the things that keep you alive in this apocalyptic situation.
I agree that the important thing to do is get those people out who can't/won't evacuate themselves. Once as many living people are out of the disaster area as can be moved, THEN go to the secondary and far less important business of re-establishing the city.