Re: Completely Offtopic

[Ron Gula <rgula () tenablesecurity com>]

At 10:50 AM 9/2/2005, Rodney Thayer wrote:
> It's times like this I hate the fact that it appears we have some legitimate
> reason to be embarassed in front of our European collegues
> about our federal government's incompetence at disaster management.
> One tries not to imagine what they'll do if confronted with a "digital
> Pearl Harbor".

Really? I'm sure things could have been done better here, but we
have 50,000+ people in the area, hundreds of thousands trying to
get out and no roads. When was the last time any major superpower
had to evacuate a whole city in just a few days, and then contend
with no roads and flooding.

There are lots of positive examples of things that did work, like
the fact that a large amount of the population made it out before
the bad weather hit. Things like showers and hot meals in the
Houston stadium just 1-2 days after things hit are also amazing.

Lastly, no-one trains urban rescue in 3-4' of flood water. I think
if you take any well trained response force from anywhere in the
world and put them in NO right now, they would be having similar
issues.

Ron Gula