Oh, brilliant

[conuly]

Apparently there's no plan to evacuate Riker's?

I'd call this unbelievable, except that it's not. And although people are talking about it, it's not being spread around outside of the ones who, y'know, already know about it.

All I can say is I hope the city gets their ass handed to them on this one. I don't think that everybody should've been pre-emptively evacuated, but there needs to be a plan in place just in case things go wrong. Isn't it obvious?

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[leora.livejournal.com]

I am disgusted, but not surprised. Since I've heard they also aren't taking steps to help the elderly and the disabled to evacuate. People talk about valuing life, but then things like this happen, and certain types of people are treated as unimportant. And after the fact, if anything happens to them, it'll be discussed as a tragedy, and people will leap to try to clean up the damage - often in more expensive ways. But beforehand, nobody cares enough to help the "less desirable" people get to safety.

Just like money poured in after the Haiti earthquake and everyone felt horrible. But it's not like Haiti didn't desperately need the help before the earthquake. And if people had given help in advance, then they could have invested in infrastructure that would have better protected them during an earthquake. But very few organizations or people ever want to do things like that.

[conuly]

Since I've heard they also aren't taking steps to help the elderly and the disabled to evacuate.

Oh, I know. And they stopped buses and trains at noon. Trains makes sense, being underground and prone to flooding in the best of circumstances, but the buses should've run later.

[gmdreia.livejournal.com]

It's our culture. Only other countries have poor people, right? What people dont like to admit is that left and right wing hate the American poor equally.