8.30.2008

Gustav

Posted by Soccer Mom at 9:00:00 AM

Yesterday was the third anniversary of when Hurricane Katrina decimated New Orleans as a category 2. And while they ate cake, over 1,800 people lost their lives. Since then, has the Bush Administration done everything it could to protect our citizens from a repeat of Katrina?

Of course not. According to a complaint to the Office of Special Counsel, the hydraulic pumps manufactured by Moving Waters Industry (MWI) and installed in New Orleans are poorly designed and untested. Everyone should be asking how this is even possible after all of the death and devastation that Katrina caused? Why would the government not do everything possible to ensure the safety of our citizens after Katrina? The answer is simple and appalling:


The pumps were custom-designed and built by Moving Water Industries Corporation (MWI) of Deerfield Beach, Florida, which won the $26.6 million contract after competitive bidding. MWI is owned by J. David Eller, who was once a business partner of former Florida Governor Jeb Bush. (From 1989 to 1993 the two operated the company Bush-El, which marketed MWI pumps.)

Does it really surprise anyone to find out that once again Bush put loyalty to family and cronies over the well being of the citizens of this country? And what will he and McCain be doing when the next hurricane hits? They will be together as they celebrate McCain's foregone nomination in St.Paul. I wonder if there will be cake this time?

Gustav is supposed to make landfall sometime in the late night of Monday or the early hours on Tuesday. The path and intensity of Gustav is eerily identical to Katrina. It is being predicted that it will hit as a Category 3 - stronger than Katrina. It's been several days now that its track is not shifting very much. I had been optimistic that it was going to move away from a direct hit near New Orleans, but it is really not looking good. I hope and prayer that everyone in the Gulf Coast region, and especially N.O., are taking the threat seriously and are getting out. Lord knows if I were them I would have absolutely no faith that the levies and the pumps will work.

 

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3 Comments:

  1. The Jelly said...
    August 31, 2008 9:07 AM  
    The sad thing is that if nothing happens, Bushy will jump all over it and use it to show how much "things have improved".

    I just hope they are safe and there isn't too much damage.
    Soccer Mom said...
    August 31, 2008 10:16 AM  
    Yes, I agree...he's going to play "hero and savior". But I really think this is going to hit really, really hard. And the only thing that will have changes is that the people that came back after Katrina this time will realize that Bush is a complete incompetent fool and that they better get there asses as far away as possible.

    And guess what Grandpa McGrumpy and Palin the Wolf Slayer are doing...they're headed to the golf coast to "check on people getting prepared for Hurricane Gustav". In other words they are using it as a photo op. Assholes. All they are going to do is get in the way.
    The Jelly said...
    August 31, 2008 8:11 PM  
    Oh yeah. OF course they are. They are putting off a lot of the stuff at the convention. But, in all fairness, unless they were complete idiots did they really have any other choice? To keep going on would have made them look even worse. I get why they are doing it but it's a whole lot of "too little, too late".

    As for the hurricane, Katrina's problem wasn't so much the direct impact of the storm but rather the failure of the levees. Let's just hope the repairs they made were enough (yeah, right) and N.O. can survive this.

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