Brilliant F#$%ing Plan

  • After a five-month post-mortem about the Blizzard of 2011 fiasco, Chicago’s top emergency officer was asked Monday how he intends to prevent another shutdown on Lake Shore Drive.

    Gary Schenkel’s answer had nothing to do with the 12-page report’s proposal to install cuts in median planters along the Drive to provide access for emergency equipment and give stranded motorists a place to turn around.

  • “We’re gonna pray a lot and hope that God doesn’t dump another 40 inches of snow on us,” said Schenkel, executive director of the city’s Office of Emergency Management and Communications.
Wow. We supposed praying will save a bunch of money, but you're going to run into problems with the atheists and the different religious factions claiming their god is best.

And this is just ignorant:

  • Asked whether anybody needs to be taken to the woodshed for what happened on Lake Shore Drive, Schenkel replied, “Absolutely not.”

    In fact, if he had it to do all over again, Schenkel said he would “probably not” close Lake Shore Drive before the storm hit. Instead, he would “wait for the situation to develop” as his predecessor did on Groundhog Day.

Then you're probably an idiot who took lessons in disaster prevention from Henny Penny. Prayer? Anyone working that zone could have told you after the first spin-out that the Drive had become impassable. Any plow driver could have told you they weren't keeping up with the drifts, winds or lake effects. But no one wanted to admit to Shortshanks that his neglect of the snow removal plans had led directly to being unable to cope with a large amount of snow. If you promote nothing but "yes-men," then one day, you're going to get bitten in the ass by piss poor planning and lack of preparation, like this past February.