When I hear the acronym "BSE", I usually think of "breast self-examination" or "bovine spongiform encephalopathy." But we can add the Bush family credo, "Blame Someone Else" to the mix:
Bush also noted that residents were told days before Wilma made landfall Monday that they should stock enough supplies to get them through three days on their own. "People had ample time to prepare," he said. "It isn't that hard to get 72 hours' worth of food and water."
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In Washington, FEMA spokeswoman Nicol Andrews said the agency can't get supplies to affected residents immediately following a storm because it takes time to get roads cleared so trucks carrying ice, water and food can make their way into heavily damaged cities and neighborhoods.
"Obviously we can't put our supplies into harm's way (before a storm hits) because then our supplies and workers become victims themselves," she said.
Echoing Bush, she said residents had several days to prepare for Wilma and "it's really disappointing to see how underprepared so many people were."
Now, one could argue that people of means in Florida DID have ample time, and indeed, my own family members in the hurricane zone emerged from the storm relatively unscathed. They had food, water, and a propane grill, so they were pretty much dining just fine by candlelight. The biggest issue for them was toilet flushing -- not the first thing people think of when they evaluate how much water they're going to need.
But what about people like, oh, say, just for argument's sake, the Immokalee tomato pickers, or the guys who operate the mowers in the gated communities of the Gulf coast, who don't have cars to lug three days' worth of gallon water jugs home from the local Walgreen's, and in most cases don't have the ready cash to BUY three days' worth of gallon water jugs? What are THEY supposed to do? Oh yeah. In the Bush Family, they don't trouble their beautiful minds about people like that.
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