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...Tara Ebbert, 38, a real estate agent in Roseville, Calif., was forced to put her house on the market earlier this year. It has yet to sell, but she figures she will lose most or all of the $75,000 she put down on the house when she bought it a few years ago. "It is what it is," says Ebbert. "It's a part of life and I am not going to dwell...
...Terry Ebbert, the director of New Orleans' Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness, calls it nothing less than "a crisis in emergency mental health care." In March, Ebbert says, emergency medical service teams logged more than 300 hours in wait time at local emergency rooms, waiting for space to open up for people needing psychiatric care. The New Orleans Police Department, stretched perilously thin since the storm, had 207 cases in the same period where cops waited up to three hours with patients picked up for mental health disorders, or had to drive miles to a suburban ER that...
...Instead, the plan calls for citizens to take more responsibility for their own safety. Terry Ebbert, New Orleans? director of Homeland Security, said he expects no more than 10,000 people to fall into the ?special needs? category - those with medical conditions or handicaps or who lack transportation of their own. And Nagin said the city?s responsibility for these residents would extend only to getting them on a bus out of town; from there, he said, the state would be responsible for setting up emergency shelters outside the areas vulnerable to flooding...
...Warren Riley said the city would request that 3,000 soldiers from the Louisiana National Guard be brought in as an evacuation commenced, both to prevent the widespread looting that happened after Katrina, and to assure evacuating residents that their homes and businesses wouldn?t fall victim to looting. Ebbert said the point was ?to create an atmosphere in our city where it makes more sense for everybody to leave rather than stay...
...state of emergency immediately after the hurricane hit, instead becoming embroiled in an administrative turf war with the federal government? Furthermore, why did she have to be compelled by President Bush to make the evacuation of New Orleans compulsory? What exactly has New Orleans homeland security director Colonel Terry Ebbert done since his appointment in February, and what, besides infantile whining, has he accomplished since the storm...