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.
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I don't think you can have enough planning, and looking at the New Orleans response will be helpful. Plans are only as effective as the delivery of services, but there are a lot of other questions we should look at. We are used to dealing with earthquakes, but what would we do if we had to evacuate an area as large as New Orleans It is a question we need to look at ahead of time.Jack Weiss
This is a step in the right direction because a number of us have been urging Washington for years to distribute funds on a risk and threat basis, and not on a pork barrel basis. At the same time, I'm always concerned when Washington wants us to create new bureaucracies to cope with the paperwork.
Jack Weiss
I can't figure out what they were thinking. It's an insult to everyone who is stuck in traffic on the 405 every day. We should play this as a loop on our traffic station three times a day to let drivers know why there is no relief coming.
Jack Weiss
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