Planning?
Once it was clear that Dean was coming into the Gulf, and for a while Texas looked like a target things started to happen:
Texas Gov. Rick Perry mobilized the National Guard and search-and-rescue teams, shipped 60,000 to 80,000 barrels of gasoline to gas stations in the Rio Grande Valley, and got a pre-emptive federal disaster declaration from President Bush. The state also sent six C-130 aircraft to Cameron County in case any critically ill patients needed to be evacuated. Hundreds of buses were on standby for possible evacuations.
On the other hand, according to Ana Maria, Mississippi’s Republican Governor Haley Barbour’s evacuation plan was different
“…people should think about where they will go if an evacuation is ordered and how they’ll travel.”
You would think that 238 confirmed dead and 67 missing as a result of hurricane Katrina would have produced a bit more of a plan than placing 70,000 robo-calls and telling people that they should think about what they are going to do.
Until Dean has dissipated no one on the Gulf Coast is out of danger and when Governor “Goodhair” of Texas has more of a plan than you do, you are in deep yogurt.
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Barbour is taking the ‘You’re on your own’ meme just a little too far….What does he think the function of the government is for then if not for assistance during a disaster?
I think the problem is that no one in his family or among his friends ones a bus line. If it would help out his cronies they would have a contract to flood the area with buses.
rick has more hair, more flags, and more pixels than does haley. obviously this means he has more gasoline, more buses, and more c-130s too.
Goodhair also has the Shrubbery not vacationing in the state, so things that wouldn’t normally happened, did.