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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

Is it Vancouver that has Mr Floatie running for mayor to bring attention
to the way the city dumps raw sewage into the ocean? Just saw it on TV.
The authorities are claiming Mr Floatie isn't a real person, but a
character just because he is dressed up like a turd.

Someplace on the west coast of canada anyway.

On Wed, 19 Oct 2005 01:29:40 GMT, Don White wrote:

PocoLoco wrote:

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!


Talked funny..?? Must have been from Western Canada.

Could be.
--
John H

"All decisions are the result of binary thinking."