Katrina

Please do not take this the wrong way. I have a few questions about the evacuation of these people from Louisiana to Texas. Why would the government or any one move to a costal city know that it is still hurricane season? I mean if you want to make sure people are safe and not inconvieanced; why placed them back in the same area that they just came from? That just irritates me so much that the weather people knew another storm was going to come and did not tell the people doing the evacuation, " Hey, you may not want to place these people here cause there is another storm coming!" Why is it that we as a country react to huge issues after the fact? Does it ever hurt to be proactive? I swear this country thinks it is going to kill us if they are proactive.
My next concern is, where are we placing all of these people while their city it being reblit? If it is in some open space till this all get situated I may have a suggestion to make the wait comfortable. The U.S has hundreds of military bases that are closed and non operational. Why not send a unit or two to the base to clean them up and make it operational. Give each family a room or group individuals together in rooms.I personally think that would be more cost efficient than what we are doing now. Use the cost guard or military to act as police since the area is controlled space and treat it as a city till theirs is back up and running.
Instead of finger pointing and looking like confused children there needs to be a better way to evacuate people when a whole city is destroyed. My idea would be this: If there is a huge storm and the weather control knows that it will be.

1)Give the residence one week notice that there is a huge storm coming, next monitor it for that week to make sure it is a huge storm.
2)Tell the news and radio stations as well newspapers to say so that it is not blown out of proportion for example ,there is a possible cat 5 storm off the cost of Louisiana that will be here in a week. Please begin packing valuables and we will keep you informed in the next week if you need to begin evacuations.
If the storm is a huge storm after a week.
1) Advise people to leave if they can to family or friends. If they have no where to go transport them to a military base that has been created as an evacuation point. Let them know if they stay they are liable for any rescue service bills for their ignorance

Maybe a lot of these ideas are in place but for some reason with this evacuation it was non existant. A lot of what is happening should not be.. We need to learn from our mistake a lot sooner that we as country do .

:)me