On Tue, 18 Oct 2005 21:34:26 GMT, Don White wrote:

PocoLoco wrote:
On Tue, 18 Oct 2005 13:38:55 -0700, Lloyd wrote:


On Sun, 16 Oct 2005 13:16:55 -0400, PocoLoco wrote:


On Sun, 16 Oct 2005 09:47:46 -0700, Lloyd Sumpter wrote:


On Mon, 10 Oct 2005 14:51:30 -0500, Skipper wrote:


But one of them would not be disaster preparation.

Donno what glue this guy's been sniffing, but he's Just Plain Wrong. In
the first place, what little military we DO have is trained almost
exclusively for rescue, life-saving, that kinda thing rather than killing.

But we DON'T depend on the Military. We have several crack units of
search-and-rescue, disaster relief, etc. In Vancouver we have the Urban
Rescue Team, and DART from Ottawa. The only problem with DART is that the
Gov't has been too busy arguing politics to get them at Site in a timely
matter. I suspect that wouldn't happen if the disaster was local.

Lloyd

Put the whole article up. Do you think a few search and rescue folks would have

^^^^^

handled the problems in New Orleans?

That's my point: there's more than "a few". We have over 1000 S&R crew in
Vancouver alone. So yes, I think we could handle such a disaster. Then
again, we don't have cities of 5 million people below sea-level in a
hurricane belt.

Lloyd


While being shot at?

Shot at?? We Canucks are law abidin', don't you know!

Yeah, but Nagin's boys weren't!

I had a good friend/riding buddy in Germany who was Canadian. He was smart, and
therefore owned a Moto Guzzi (not a Desmo). We must have put 15,000 miles on our
bikes riding together during my last summer there. One ride was from Stuttgart
to Stockholm, around Sweden, back through Denmark. What a trip!

John was a fun guy to be with, even though he talked funny!
--
John H

"All decisions are the result of binary thinking."