Mandatory evacuations have been ordered for New Orleans and Galveston. I urge the citizens to listen carefully to the instructions provided by state and the local authorities. And follow them,
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Wars are not won by evacuations.
A system was set in place to ensure immediate response and ensured communication between agencies. But observation of the events on Dec. 2 of the evacuations of the courthouses calls much of that into doubt.
Search and rescue operations, evacuations and trying to control the levee breach are our priorities for today.
We actually begin our evacuations somewhere in the neighborhood of anywhere between 48 and 72 hours before tropical force winds are forecast to come ashore.
Mother Nature did not cooperate with us at all we had four major hurricanes and four evacuations. The last hurricane literally put the entire base under two feet of water. There were employees who lost just about everything, but they've managed to get back together to where we are today.
We expect to have more beach erosion, unfortunately, lots of rain, potential flooding, ... This is a serious storm, and we urge people to heed the advice of local officials when they make their announcements about evacuations ... if necessary.
With the evacuations firmly underway, recriminations abounded. Michael Brown, the director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), blamed the city. Mayor Ray Nagin can order an evacuation, ... the resources to get the poor, elderly or the disabled out.
I don't think the city has done nearly enough for disasters --manmade or natural. In the wake of Katrina I want to take a look at our evacuations at our ability to transport the elderly and infirm ... at triage possibilities.
The point is to eliminate that storm-surge threat with one of these plans. The philosophy of what we do during a hurricane would change. We could spend more time protecting our homes and less time trying to get out of the city in these desperate evacuations.
Despite several employee evacuations from the Gulf of Mexico last year due to the storms, as well as the massive effort that followed to restore operations, our company turned in its safest work year ever in 2005.
Initially, we wanted to make sure that, if the storm continued on a path toward New Orleans and the smart thing was to evacuate, my 80-something-year-old aunt knew she could come to Baton Rouge. These evacuations are necessary every few years, and, in fact, my aunt came to Baton Rouge last September during a storm that came near New Orleans.
I think there's gong to be hurricane effect for next couple of readings. It's not just Katrina and Rita. Hurricane Wilma was causing evacuations, business closings in October.
The store will be closed when they do mandatory evacuations, but no, I'm not (evacuating). Of course, I'm a little further away than it's predicted to make landfall,
This is one of the largest, if not the largest evacuations in this country.
Evacuations went very well ... people did come off the islands and left the coastline in a good way ... we just have to wait for this to pass through,