{"id":197,"date":"2005-09-05T19:42:54","date_gmt":"2005-09-05T23:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/2005\/09\/05\/on-contingencies-ray-in-austin\/"},"modified":"2005-09-05T19:42:54","modified_gmt":"2005-09-05T23:42:54","slug":"on-contingencies-ray-in-austin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/2005\/09\/05\/on-contingencies-ray-in-austin\/","title":{"rendered":"On contingencies; Ray in Austin"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a><\/p>\n

Ray in Austin<\/a>
\nis my favorite blogger at the moment.  He’s writing solely about NO; his anger is tangible and practical.  He
\nprovides a recap of Walter Maestri’s work in predicting hurricane
\ndamage and evangelizing for preparedness, apparently in vain.  An NPR story from last year<\/a> describes how explicitly this very storm had been played out in the minds of people preparing for it. <\/p>\n

Meanwhile, skilled volunteers are actively not being called<\/a> in<\/span>. 
\nChains of command are still worrying about looking good to others,
\nwhile the “related deaths” toll is steadily soaring.  I’ve seen
\nthis kind of careful negligence before, and cringe to observe it when
\nso much is at stake.  10,000 deaths doesn’t sound unlikely to me any more.  According to
\nsome sources (the NYT?), we’re up to 250k refugees in Texas, far more
\nthan the 100k I predicted last week.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the Army relief forces seem to have dived<\/a> into NO from a standpoint of total war:<\/p>\n

Combat operations are underway on the streets “to take
\nthis city back” in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
\n“This place is going to look like Little Somalia,” Brig. Gen. Gary
\nJones, commander of the Louisiana National Guard’s Joint Task Force
\ntold Army Times Friday as hundreds of armed troops under his charge
\nprepared to launch a massive citywide security mission from a staging
\narea outside the Louisiana Superdome. “We’re going to go out and take
\nthis city back. This will be a combat operation to get this city under
\ncontrol.”<\/font><\/p>\n

<\/font><\/div>\n

… next up : you didn’t know what when???<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ray in Austin is my favorite blogger at the moment.  He’s writing solely about NO; his anger is tangible and practical.  He provides a recap of Walter Maestri’s work in predicting hurricane damage and evangelizing for preparedness, apparently in vain.  An NPR story from last year describes how explicitly this very storm had been played […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":135,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-metrics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/135"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}