Subject: Re: [permaculture] From The Wilderness Email Alert List Message
Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2005 17:38:16 -0400
Keith Johnson wrote:
In the wake of hurricane Katrina,
the end of business as usual is no longer in our rear view mirrors. It
is staring at us all through the windshield. And neither government nor
Wall Street is going to save us.
A disturbing view from inside FEMA
Worker: Decision-makers lack disaster experience
Saturday, September 17, 2005; Posted: 5:06 p.m. EDT (21:06 GMT)
As Hurricane Katrina bore down on the Gulf Coast three weeks ago,
veteran workers at the Federal Emergency Management Agency braced for an
epic disaster.
But their bosses, political appointees with almost no emergency
management experience, didn't seem to share the sense of urgency, a FEMA
veteran said.
"We told these fellows that there was a killer hurricane heading right
toward New Orleans," Leo Bosner, a 26-year FEMA employee and union
leader told CNN. "We had done our job, but they didn't do theirs."(
Watch video of the whistleblower)
Bosner's storm warning came early Saturday, three days before Hurricane
Katrina came ashore in eastern Louisiana