[BC] New Orleans - a matter of responsibility?

[Barry Mishkind]

At 11:26 AM 12/2/05, Rich Wood wrote
>------ At 12:43 PM 12/2/2005, Barry Mishkind wrote: -------
>
>>         You raise an interesting issue.
>>         I don't remember seeing any
>>         radios nor areas where a
>>         radio might have been set up
>>         at a checkpoint, or run off
>>         a car battery....
>
>I don't think it had anything to do with the authorities.

         I was not speaking specially about "the authorities"
         but rather of places there might have been
         power, either battery or generator supplied.

>It really looked to me as though people simply weren't prepared.

         The sad truth in most cases.  People will
         not do much to prepare, because they
         feel they deserve instant information
         on whatever they want to know.