Let me know your thoughts on the “Lessons From Katrina” lesson. Here are some of the resources that I mentioned:
A detailed after action report compiled by the state of Mississippi. >>HERE<<
Pictures of Dead Bodies. !!Graphic!! I’m only including these because many people only heard 2nd & 3rd hand stories and saw what the media wanted them to see and what video editors put on YouTube. >>HERE<<
Marine Public Affairs Officer answering about gun confiscation. >>HERE<< Please watch to the very end. It’s only 1 minute, but parts of this interview have been taken out of context, making it look like he’s saying something VERY different than what he actually is.
NRA video talking about illegal gun confiscation. >>HERE<<
Example of mistitled videos on YouTube. >>HERE<< National Guard was blamed for taking weapons, but it was police who actually did it. There is an interview at the end that is often mis-used to show a soldier’s willingness to shoot Americans. In reality, he was saying exactly the opposite.
Katrina Hatch >>HERE<<
Drug Use After Katrina (Department of Health & Human Services >>HERE<<
Impact of Katrina on illicit drug markets >>HERE<<
iSteve quote on first responders >>HERE<<
How welfare and the entitlement mentality caused the aftermath of Katrina >>HERE<<
The story on generator theft after Katrina >>HERE<<
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Another good resource is the National Incident Management System (NIMS) training available on the fema website. There are free on-line courses for personal and organizational preparedness as well as courses covering the formal emergency management structure to be implemented at national, state and local levels in the event of an emergency or other extraordinary situation.
FYI- 86% of emergency responders reported for duty during Katrina and did their best to serve throughout the incident. Much of the failure during the disaster occurred, as you so correctly said, due to entitlement attitude, which unfortunately ran high into mayoral and state governances.
Another good example of planning and communication failure related to shelters: people gathered at the convention center expecting assistance which did not come for days because that location was not listed as a shelter in the ‘official’ response plan.
As always, I greatly appreciate your lessons!
My favorite Katrina story:
Storm Victims Steal School Buses To Flee New Orleans
http://www.clickorlando.com/news/4929516/detail.html
Several school buses were stolen from Orleans Parish, loaded with storm victims and driven out of New Orleans toward Houston in desperate acts to leave the ravaged city, according to reports.
Three school buses were stopped Thursday night in Port Allen, La., just west of Baton Rouge after they were stolen, according to WBRZ-TV in Baton Rouge. The evacuees were placed on other buses and transferred to shelters in Texas.
An 18-year-old also decided to take matters into his own hands and stole an abandoned city school bus and drove storm victims to Texas, according to a CNN report.
The teen driver, Jabbar Gibson, 18, said he had never driven a bus before but wanted to save people.
“If it wasn’t for him, we’d still be in New Orleans on the Gulf,” bus passenger Randy Nathan said. “He got the bus for us.”
Authorities allowed the renegade passengers inside the Astrodome but Gibson could find himself in trouble after taking the school bus.
Meanwhile, Katrina refugees who had finally arrived by bus from the steamy Superdome were left in limbo for more than two hours after officials suddenly announced that the Astrodome was too full to accept them.
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As a point of reference, I want to bring up one thing that stood out to me concerning the “relocation” of the people of NOLA after Katrina. Familes were fragmented, by that I mean separated and dislocated from one another; children were displaced from families. People were “relocated” all over the USA; one family was “sent” to Maine… MAINE; I mean think about that… total cultural shock on every level. The summers in Maine are probably colder than the winters in NOLA. Just something to think about…
As an outside observer of that event, I thought mississippi did a valiant job. When I read the mississippi report you provided I realize how much was ill planned, or not planned at all, through various agencies and that mississippi was very fortunate to do as well as it did. (I suspect through the guts and hard work of many many dedicated folks.)This was in an area of the country we all knew would fail at some point .
We absolutely have to take it upon ourselves to get organized in our local areas. My hushand is going back to CERT.
Thank you for the insights!
The information in lesson 11 is incredible with the YouTube Videos of the lack of ZERO plans and 2nd & 4th Amendment abuses. The Katrina debacle as I remember the NEWS MEDIA seemed more focused on the negatives on how everything was screwed up and out of control. I honesty am glad for this course so I have some knowledge of ‘how to’ and self reliance. After the last lesson I have completed a CPR course and after reading this one feel it would be important to take some more medical classes. Hopefully I can help my family my local neighborhood as well as myself. Thank you for the view into a tragedy that will occur again with better results.
David,
The link for the Katrina Hatch is http://www.paultenterprises.com/hatch.html.