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echo: barktopus
to: Gary Britt
from: John Cuccia
date: 2005-09-03 20:50:50
subject: Re: Katrina: deep thoughts

From: John Cuccia 

On Sat, 3 Sep 2005 21:40:43 -0400, "Gary Britt"
 wrote:

>The MAYOR was NEVER out of communication.  The MAYOR always had the ability
>to contact people.

It's obvious to me now that you've never lived through a hurricane. I'm not
surprised, you're wrong about nearly everything, there is no reason to
think you'd be otherwise here.

There were no phones and no electricity.  The mayor couldn't contact anyone
who didn't have a battery operated radio.

>Like the Governor, and say call out the guard, put one
>in each bus and then follow me.  That would be called leadership, and the
>blacks running the city had none.

Phones were out in Baton Rouge, too, Gary. You really don't have clue.

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