[BC] New Orleans - a matter of responsibility?

[Mike McCarthy]

You were accurate until you cited HD Radio.  I fail to see the humor in 
your reference to HD. And quite frankly, the whole HD/IBUZZ pontification 
growing tiresome Rich.

HD or otherwise, I agree with you that being prepared for a disaster is 
just as much the sole individual's responsibility as it is the governments' 
(local, county, state. national).  You as an individual can't rely on 
someone else in the heat of the moment when you could/should have prepared.

In the NOLA case, MANY people believed the levees would hold and they/their 
possessions would be safe.

MM

At 01:26 PM 12/2/2005 -0500, 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. It really looked 
>to me as though people simply weren't prepared. New England gets hit with 
>everything every once in a while. I recall the Fire Department giving 
>demonstrations in school several times a year with information on disaster 
>preparedness. The only thing I can't remember experiencing here in my 
>lifetime is a tsunami. The first time I became aware of them was when I 
>worked with Tom Bodett in Homer, AK. Their biggest fear was a tsunami 
>coming from the North. It would have wiped out a good portion of the Kenai 
>Peninsula.
>
>I have to put part of the blame on the citizens who weren't equipped with 
>a decent HD radio. Of course, those who could afford them got out of Dodge 
>well in advance. OK. I give up. A decent analog radio would have worked, too.
>
>Rich
>
>
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