Remember lousy communications during 9/11 — then, Katrina? It ain’t getting better.
Only six of 75 U.S. metropolitan areas won the
highest grades for their emergency agencies’ ability to communicate during
a disaster, five years after the September 11 terrorist
attacks…
If you need verification of the farce that Homeland Insecurity continues to be — just visit their website on a regular basis. Lots of pages featuring “remarks/memo/statement from the Chairman”. Enough bureaucratic comic opera to revive Glbert and Sullivan.
Their new duct tape and plastic website is up — Ready America emulates the “duck and cover” crowd of the 1950’s. And you, too, can form a local chapter of the Citizen Corp which seems to be our government’s first line of defense against Bird Flu.
Only six of 75 U.S. metropolitan areas won the highest grades for their emergency agencies’ ability to communicate during a disaster, five years after the September 11 terrorist attacks…
A draft portion of the report, to be released Wednesday, gives the best ratings to Washington; San Diego, California; Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota; Columbus, Ohio; Sioux Falls, South Dakota; and Laramie County, Wyoming.
The lowest scores went to Chicago, Illinois; Cleveland, Ohio; Baton Rouge, Louisiana; Mandan, North Dakota; and American Samoa. The report included large and small cities and their suburbs, along with U.S. territories.
Lots of details, many problems, lots of copouts. Read the draft report [mediocre .pdf] and see how your neck of the woods came out.
Posted: Wed - January 3, 2007 at 06:51 AM