Comments on: Buses http://www.3nailsministries.org/2005/09/04/buses/ Walking the walk, sometimes crawling, often falling Thu, 10 Sep 2009 22:22:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: SingleMind http://www.3nailsministries.org/2005/09/04/buses/comment-page-1/#comment-9620 SingleMind Wed, 07 Sep 2005 16:55:42 +0000 http://3nailsministries.org/?p=190#comment-9620 You and I found the same "plan". Trouble is, when you cut through the verbiage, it's all a bunch of bureaucratic bloviation that could have come from any agency for which you or I ever worked. There was one place in which the Regional Transit Authority (RTA) was given the responsibility for getting those evacuation buses moving. Whoever was running the RTA is going to have some hard questions to answer. Had they run those buses from Friday night onward, at least 100,000 of the most vulnerable people could have been evacuated. There were lots of complaints about breakdowns in communication. That's because they probably did not include redundancy in their systems. Even if power supplies--including backups--and antennas are knocked down, what about amateur radio operators (hams)? Hams can be an integral part of the communication infrastructure in a disaster, but to what extent were they utilized? The mayor and governor are absolutely incompetent. She should have been on the phone with President Bush on Friday night. She could have said the word, and he would have sent in the 82nd Airborne, along with a myriad of National Guard and Reserve units. You and I found the same “plan”. Trouble is, when you cut through the verbiage, it’s all a bunch of bureaucratic bloviation that could have come from any agency for which you or I ever worked.

There was one place in which the Regional Transit Authority (RTA) was given the responsibility for getting those evacuation buses moving. Whoever was running the RTA is going to have some hard questions to answer. Had they run those buses from Friday night onward, at least 100,000 of the most vulnerable people could have been evacuated.

There were lots of complaints about breakdowns in communication. That’s because they probably did not include redundancy in their systems. Even if power supplies–including backups–and antennas are knocked down, what about amateur radio operators (hams)?

Hams can be an integral part of the communication infrastructure in a disaster, but to what extent were they utilized?

The mayor and governor are absolutely incompetent. She should have been on the phone with President Bush on Friday night. She could have said the word, and he would have sent in the 82nd Airborne, along with a myriad of National Guard and Reserve units.

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