Thank.

You must thank you.

A little louder please.

Just say yes.

But this next Friday September second
we're doing exactly that to be exactly

as a.

Part all I have to say this morning is
that every grandfather right this guy

seems to be the perfect guy for
this job soon in a sense of northerns

time to cut their sixteen's down for
gosh sakes and you know just

you know let's get some tension by
your mother a little steam up please

we're going to start on a related issue is
really sort of almost all of things but

I want our Barbara Starr was good work was
over with been a witness to come up to

about other who helped with babies when
she was struggling to even hold off but

really he took a big step or aren't
a big we saw he was a little bit but

didn't really mean that a back a Jewish
chip off shored up she took one person but

what if it sends a message but
we understand the problem course the whole

there's little point about having was told
to put their guns down to get reports of

their help they're not here to you know
intimidate people while take what plan

does a lot of that with a straight
shooting take charge John wait you

never got stuck on stupid he was
exactly what the gulf coast needed

right after Hurricane Katrina.

Not misspoke or
spoke to reporters that's B.S.

I want you to get on because never
thought I was responding to this B.S..

That's right we'll never forget General
Russel Honore it's what line it was but or

a matter what he did with
the hurricane victims even more

when President Bush signed
what we see aboard to called

the command Joint Task Force Katrina I'll
write you this may be one of the most.

His career with.

Charlie thanks Charlie.

Welcome boy it's great to be here
it's honored to be here this is about

my third or fourth opportunity to come
to this great institution and speak over

the years I had opportunity live in
this town for almost six years little

known to many of you have commanded off
a call the first United States Army I was

the thirty third commander first Commander
was a guy named blackjack Persian and

in World War two commanded by God
by the name of Omar Bradley so.

You would know about me in that lineup but
it's great to be here today I

probably didn't have the grades
to come to Georgia take but

I had a lot of joy to take grads work for
me.

Over the years.

And it's a great to be is
that deep is the mana and

I see our future officer corps
setting over here I thank you all for

coming in and recognize a few veterans
in your audience I want to talk to you

today about leadership and preparedness
in a twenty first century the thing about

preparedness is it's.

Talked about after things happen.

What we could have done
should have done and.

We can't lose our place in time where
the understanding of what happens and

how they happen and we we get this
idea that we can control everything.

And leave Jan we need to get over it.

We cannot control everything.

As a level of preparedness because
regardless what we do and what we build

as human beings on any given day
Mother Nature you can break it.

As absolute breaking.

And our off of our.

Continuous struggle is how we can be.

Mother Nature.

And her again if I may
use that as a metaphor

on any given day Mother Nature
can break anything built by me.

Just this past year Mother Nature came
through here with a little cold weather

and some ice and one of America's
greatest cities it did what.

Shut it down.

Shut it down now there are things
we can do that prevent

the impacts of Mother Nature work we can
start out by doing simple things like

listen to the world of a.

Person we understand invite
There is a mystery months and

three days of military
that hope is not a matter.

Of hoping that it will go north to
go south should not be a method

of doing business when you've got
a metropolitan area of sixty seven

million people and you've got trucks in
airplanes coming in from all directions

I say it is not as a criticism but
as an observation there are many things

that craws that paralysis in
decision making before during and

after an event that goes deep into
the history of this state and many other

states nobody intentionally woke up
just want to see him go screw yourself.

We just made it out fail that.

As was the case in Katrina.

But talking about preparedness can
remind me of a story I do get to go

around here talk about leadership
around the country I was in Houston

a couple years ago talking
at a dog food convention.

And.

It was interesting your you so
I mean I've talked to fence Comanches and

toilet make it conventions in
water conventions in engineers.

Esteemed design Bill architect
you need your convention now.

National Convention spoke at all those but
this meeting at this dog convention kind

of remind me of what I'm trying to
sell to you today about the parish.

We went into the session being warriors
council looked like the opening

of a Garth Brooks concert music play and

smoke coming out of the floor the see
you come across the stage and

everybody stand up and
you slap a rock star and

I need you to participate for this thing
to get the effect so I'm going to change

the name of the dog food company and
I'm going to play the role of the C.E.O.

for a minute and he comes across
in here about to quiet down and

all the troops are clapping boy and
he just implied that he says.

The name is dog food company uses A.B.C.

you with me you have got
to be all smart people.

OK I'll explain this to the Marines
because they will give him a second time

around and so
he asked best Marine Corps in the world

is one in a room there's always one so
he asks a question he says and

we'll call it the A.B.C. dog who's coming
OK you say who's the best dog food

a is the best price a boy I
didn't ace question he asked

who is a save his dole food OK and
everybody pulled a piece of dog food

they had given him and
it popped in their mouth I said hey.

This guy got these people fired up.

And then he done with most C.E.O.'s
do eat dinner slide up and

showed the income stream.

Their return on investment.

And Lazy Gemini thing was flat line.

And when going anywhere had been
anywhere it was a loser and

I say to myself I'm glad I got
my damn chair if I got here.

And of course he would do with any C.E.O.
would say you say look.

When I was the problem and
it was silence the smoke went down

the lights came up because he was
looking for dialogue the troops why

when this thing setting up the best market
place the best safe is food the best price

the best look at dog food bag they
got everything is not sell it so

after his third time yelling at the
audience I do know back put his hand out

he said Who is that he said Boss This is
little bubble from Lake Charles Louisiana.

He said Bubble was a problem bubble but
I would say pause the problem is the damn

dogs won't leave it.

In your management school it would call
out organization alignment some B.S..

Our problem with disaster preparedness
is that people won't need it.

And most people in Georgia spend no time
getting ready for football season and

if you get ready for winter.

And the same thing could be said new all
those people spend more time getting ready

for Ellis you two lane games and
Saints game in need you get ready for

hurricane season when we
know they're going to come.

And they can have disastrous impact the
situation as we saw unfold in New Orleans

we had two things come together the power
of Mother Nature against the city of about

a half a million people and a storm one.

Broke the levees around
a city that is below sea.

Level.

Is flooded to our our
two largest hospitals

now to you engineers and architects.

Somebody stupid come your way.

Because everybody will remember
the name of the mayor but

nobody remembered the name of
the architect in the engineer.

Who decided to put the generator and
the power system

in the basement of the Charity Hospital
and who in the hell would do that.

Hello.

And when you go back yes a question
said well who decided to do that.

And you go see the architects the
architects here US engineers one hundred

there you go see the engineers here well
I just want to tell you we know better

there's a dam C.F.O.
decided to put it here you know the money.

We lost those two hospitals next year we
hope to have those two hospitals open.

At a cost of one point three
billion dollars apiece.

Those hospitals really went
well into this century and

beyond like we do would build
these around here reshape.

But we lost them both.

Because we generated was in the basement
all the mechanics was in the basement

and the computers are in the basin
there's a screw down there and

you know in a computer guys you know what
we can initiate all the way up stairs you

know they want they want to go and here
with the generator guy hang out net coon

dog Spot the bottom computers run
good we lost it all we ran a city for

a couple months while I was
there own yellow Ledger pads.

Telling got new computers
in that people or

so that's the impact that you can have
in America you saw it here in Atlanta if

you were living here and you can reflect
back from the video on what happened in

New Orleans of Mother Nature the impact
your mother that you saw it in one of

the most prepared places in the world have
had this catastrophic event in Japan.

Some of the most prepared.

Communities in the world and again they
were overmatched they went from in at.

Disaster known as the tsunami so a manmade
disaster called nuclear power plant.

Now who in the hell would
put a nuclear power plant.

On the water.

You would if you are from Japan or

you from Korea where the concept
of ground is very precious.

And somebody come convince you hey
you want to use nuclear power or

well let's get four.

Because what goes on the higher
ground in many Asian countries

who goes on the high ground perhaps our.

I mean you know that culture you go there
and you see a low mound own your C.L.O.

Hill and on top of that hill there's
a significant person from that community.

So it speak to the point of
how our cultural norms can

override engineering decisions so
huge in years.

In New Orleans where do we put the
engineer where do you put the generators

in the basement in the city everybody
knew was involved at some point in time.

In Japan and this is not.

Anything you guessed that the actual
personnel these things happen over time

they put the the nuclear reactors
where they took water on high tower.

And I search.

Now if you had to walk their dog
back would you do that probably not

we rebuild in the hospitals
in New Orleans guess what.

The first floor is what
I call the dummy floor.

You know there's nothing you can park
cars there you can put stuff there but

all of the technology is at least
twelve feet off the ground.

In Japan if they moved it to Lance
at the Georgia Tech football field

it would have never gotten wet.

And they would vote from the.

Natural disasters to manmade disasters So

yeah being one of the big brains
out this kind of this discipline.

You had I have an appreciation of what
Mother Nature can do when you design and

build this great building now you go
around the world if you look in there and

that deck you see a map of
the United States if you pull that up for

me in your name again Charlie Charlie
is my new best friend you

see a map in your child's
brain that map up.

Well since you know to
do that you keep going.

To come back to that one.

Faster Charlie.

You see a map right there Charlie do you
know those of you that I geographically

challenged just here's a map of
the United States of America.

That big red thing in the middle is that
Mississippi River we talk about floods

floods destroyed no homes every year
than any of the vet in the world

the power of water.

A couple years after I retired I was doing
law well is where I grew up a C.N.N.

headquarters it was a flood out
the midwest will mention name a town but

the last name a town this falls.

And I thought no professor there.

Whom I met some time after Katrina and

he said Well General I just don't
understand how life flighted here.

I said Well professor at your university

I'm looking at a Google map
there's a river run through it.

I say What do you look see when you see
look to the East Professor You see I see

higher ground.

Where do you see when you look
to the West Professor you see as

the Hydra I say that's the dam Valley.

You stand next to a river How do
you think I got there professor.

He will never flooded here before I
said not in your lifetime obviously but

a flood there some point in time.

And I go to the east.

National Flood conference is in
the state are you money Semana zero

Joe what's a good way to figure
out if in my flood I see

number one rule if you live in a house and
you can see water it conferred.

Then on.

As you cross water on the way home you
probably live in a place that a flood

it is not that sophisticated
you do not need a model and

if this is your first home and
you're taking a loan out and

you go to the bank when you get
ready to close on a house and

it could be that they say are you have to
go see Fema about your flood insurance.

You better get the hell out of there.

Because you about a buy
house in a flood zone.

It is not very sophisticated.

I'll grant powers who would laugh at us.

That we cut the banks of the Chattahoochee
to make a river make a road flat

no I don't know well what happened
to the Chattahoochee it runs always

banks and when you Bill I two
eighty five around the city and

Lana and I have to bank a very river what
do we do do we go up with the bridge

we went straight with the bridge who
are the bridge builders in here.

The potential future bridge builder
same US We want to two in a row OK Go

tell the potential future bridge
builders Irene rule number one when you

come to a river you build a bridge up.

If you build a bridge flat and if you
just like you have a ladder as soon as

the water come with your happen the debris
is going to build up under the bridge and

it's going to do what is going to flood
the local town right around there

in the state and it happens here all
the time happens on the east side.

It happens on the west side.

The dynamics of what we talk about listen
Jamie said well why do we do that how do

we let that happen well a professor
is in a room will tell you a policy.

Begin landowners they want to exit
there they want to develop their lane

and by the way it had flooded here
recently as the biggest lie of a toe

then flooded here for
lazy German anywhere you see red here

is subject to major flooding as well
as parts out in the Midwest yet

the Mississippi River.

Got its name from
the Native Americans American Indians.

When you turn to the word
Mississippi River in

the language of the time line it
means the father of the waters.

Now if you live next to the father of
the waters would your expect to happen.

Is not a flood nine hundred twenty seven.

About nine hundred twelve nine hundred
thirty six the evolution of when we

put our levee systems in around the
Mississippi River going all the way as for

the author up in Him Those are St Louis

put that limit levee system maybe
keep the river from flooding.

The great.

Plains and
coming down the Mississippi Delta.

With impacts that have had significant
impact it's created development all

alone you see all many of our major great
cities one thing in common you may have

seen on this map is that there's
a river there you go to Austin.

You go to Fort Worth.

Because our ancestors The chased water
water was keen only for drinking

it was key for industrialization and it
was key for the biggest transportation and

where the water was the cities went where
the cities went the railroads went.

You know the rest the story what happened
in there was the city was underwater.

Because the levees broke.

It happened before and

it could happen again you think about what
happened in New Orleans where there's

a population about a half million people
what do you think would happen in Miami.

How many people live below
Daytona Beach in Florida you magine.

I mean people you manage to live there.

Are.
Proper ten million.

That infrastructure was
built around four million.

Of the two major roads that leave there.

What prevents a Katrina from
happening in Miami is there

something out there that could
prevent it from happening.

Go read about the flood the storm one
thousand nine hundred thirty five or

Hemingway's hurricane it came
through here and overtopped he wes.

It drowned two hundred veterans from
World War One he was out there working

on a railroad between Miami Key West.

Very tragic event.

And you might say well why
would those veterans there

they were on a project called that B.P.
building a railroad for

this great businessman in
collaboration with the city of

which state of Florida put rail service
in the Key West the storm was coming and

you got the word the storm was coming.

The governor of Florida said we'll take
care of vets you are a railroad said he

would do it in a breath nobody did it to
her ground on barges right off the coast

of Florida so we have done stupid before.

And we go back into further
earlier generations

where we have failed to act
before disasters happen

in a case in New Orleans we had eighty
percent evacuation of the city.

Eighty percent.

Evacuated their part you heard about was
sixty or seventy thousand that you saw on

television that didn't evacuate but we've
got to find a solution that they're right.

And the next piece I want to talk to
you go up to the piece on leadership

you see General Washington.

To you engineers I.P.P. is a boat.

And you've got Admiral here
they are coming I'm sure

he'll appreciate that maybe.

But our three points of leadership
we want to take from this

portfolio you probably know a story
that requires a leadership is

Washington was successful because he
embraced doing a routine things well and

when you can do it in imposing on his army
he brought other people in Washington

was a cesspool because you were
afraid to take on the impossible.

And I'm here to tell you lives in Germany
all the opportunities on the other side

impossible.

When we go from seven to ten billion
people we're going to have to do

the impossible how many of you have a
spend any time without electricity lights

went out we have put people on the moon
right now we got a vehicle for

one fifty pickup truck running
around up there taking pictures but

we haven't developed a transformer
that had them square OK trip.

We did we sent in here right now and our
friends in Georgia power in Georgia and

all of who had it up to squirrels
will be out there getting ready for

their homecoming game
ban I'm not the power.

And the other way tell a truck come
on find out which pole it's own and

you know pull it there and
hit the thing or they come back.

There are many more threats to our power
grid I tell you that because power

is the number one ingredients that the
find us in these disasters when we lose

we lose the ability to communicate.

Reusability pop water we lose
the ability to flush toilets

lose the ability to watch Airbus A coupe.

Yeah I mean it affects everything.

So as Washington in his day

wasn't afraid to take on the impossible
the defeated or British Army.

We gotta take the impossible.

Now when I go to the screws in the south
and I talk to them about the impossible

as I've been here before talked about
impossible think about what have you

students doing the impossible not asking
you to charge forth on the battlefield

we tell them actually solving the issues
of the day when we go from seven

billion the ten billion people
because we don't have power problems.

The grid is vulnerable you had
your time the students in this

room today you have to find a solution
is one of them is think about.

Five years ago I used to go
say go to a big box store but

soccer moms don't have to go to big box
stores right and you're a computer and

order it off or Amazon right or e-bay.

Or low box this last you take it home and

said there's no engineers in Rome so
your stay with me.

You take it in a closet and
you're playing in a wall.

And you don't worry about.

It the power go out it will run
the house for five days and

when you tell it to the engineers do
this or they tell you that it will work.

Let us know work their way in the world
wide Our because we hadn't done it yet.

But we don't have a choice we gotta
do it of the seven billion people in

the world today.

About two billion.

Yes they don't have electricity in
the house how do you think they feel

when they wake up in the morning.

And they don't have light changes only
wake up in the bill a night or the fact

that they're going to kill a chicken the
day they got to eat it all because it can

save you tell them are how do you think
they feel about their in another billion

and a hair kid nudist they can't turn
a war all because you know I won't anyhow.

Another seven billion people.

Three billion of them live on
less than four hours a day.

This cup of coffee here how
much do you think their cars.

How many have you burnt through four
hours before you even got the class.

We got to solve this problem.

And it's got to be on your watch we've got
to figure out how to do this because when

we get the world power we won't be running
power lines in front of the house and.

I.
Mean if you believe that.

Thing about a campus year when you
know powers has some you engineers

can figure out how we're going
to do this where the factor of

the squirrel goes away when you
have a message growth and life so.

That's the impossible we
will have to do this.

When you look at the people
in the world today

that don't have power don't have
plumbing don't have electricity.

And we said here in civil war money
when the opportunity is going to

be when I brought it all right here.

We got to do the impossible just like
Joe Washington did the impossible and

what our freedom from the British do you
live is Great Britain to do the impossible

think about what happened if you were
to teach IT computer how to taste and

smell.

And what do to keep you people tell you
were last impossible is what they tell me

they say I'm a sailor general you don't
understand how a computer work or

computed.

X. is zero computer case male.

Only because what we head toward it.

If we were to teach a computer tases
Well think about growing up here

are well below the new airplanes and.

Then how about Bill an airplane for
Delta rate and lead a company that tells

the pilots only way in here hour from
Atlanta that the person set in an F.

fifteen C. has a fever.

For the relevant there was
growth of the day and that.

In thirty minutes.

The computer said that all is there
fifteen is if even ten people around and

have him.

As he put his Landy get out a year message
from the F.A.A. the way in Atlanta take

the airplane to Shreveport.

If a plane lands in a low in this
report the flight attendants

you've ever bought a low stick
this it invented yet either.

Where in your mouth if you come
a green you get off the plane

if you can register on a plane and
we ship you to Utah.

Dugway Proving that there for
further analysis

this isn't admit it.

This is the burden on you big brain
people have got to figure this shit out.

You've got to solve these problems
I mean expanding global population.

Inside this in-between football games.

And you have to figure out.

Because we can get lost in the moment
we've got to solve these problems

back in the day General Washington solve
the basic problem he what our freedom

I mean it's Veteran's.

Day we got to solve this problem
associated with what you are from

seven billion the ten billion people
less German That's the opportunities.

And think of the airplane itself how
old is the airplane how many years

one hundred were.

There to sway and twelve.

When it was first developed how do they do
it to a boy I think are some sticks right

you know some claw title I
gather will jump off a dam here.

And when they did it where
people say now boy courage.

And God wanted us to fly what
do you does you have a some way.

Some of the stuff you would do the some
of these people call you crazy.

And if you're not a little bit crazy
you do it because you're looking around

the corner you're solving problems all
the engineers are tell you can't plug

something in the wall and run the house we
don't have an option we will never get.

Our high transmission power
lines throughout Africa but

you know what they can skip that.

Because of some of you in this room will
create a technology where they don't need.

Many people in the world they skip
what this skip the hard life form

they don't have it I mean if you
have a hard life or where you are.

You know you don't even want to.

Know what is that.

A.
Step it.

The technology that's required for
this new normal as we go from seven to

ten billion people is not an option we've
got a we've got a profit has these fixes

in power is one of them water is
the other We've got less clean drinking

water today than we had yesterday.

This is not about a political
party this is a reality.

We will have less the more and
we got today.

You buy into that I mean you believe that.

And there's probably some number
leavers who say that ain't true.

Or you do live in Georgia if you've been
here a while you've been through drought

You bet you the fact when the
Chattahoochee was sucking mud right and we

already got a water wars I'm here to tell
you future wars appealable water not all.

But a spade into those future wars
will be a weed out of water war going

out in the Midwest we had a water
war going on in the Wes and

that same time we got a water war
going on with the energy business.

And that's the dynamic of the new normal
now if you go to a culture of preparedness

if you were.

The one that you were shooting
through just open it right there.

There is a solution.

Go ahead open it up all the way.

Faster and faster then you go faster.

Faster I think this man is going
to make a good Marine go back.

Disaster happens.

We have got pretty good on this are all
the governors know you have to have

a news conference.

Right.

You got to declare you're
in charge right and

right behind you Janelle actually
got a general yes then and

you're a police guy and you're a doctor
and a local university president you know

you have good news coverage you have
a state you are taking care of the people.

Lazy German We are getting
very good at this.

My projection is you've
got to get over here.

We got to get to the left
side of the disaster.

There are things that the engineers
that tell you the most possible

the most probable and the most dangerous.

If you had time which
one would you work on.

The often answer that question later.

Possible probable most dangers

I tell people if you short
on time do the most dangers.

Because when you go into that you will

work your way through
some of these are the.

She's there because going into
a disaster without a plan is a problem

going into a disaster with a plan that
you're not willing to change is a big

problem because then you're stupid because
the plans never survive contact with

world reality so you've got to adjust them
along the way it's like the C.D.C. and

the public help law dealing with a whole
lot better that going on good people.

Get to the left side we're going
to have to invest ourselves

to say hey this is a post probable
incidents how do we prepare for

them every dollar we spend here
save twelve hours over here

now Professor you'll be
glad to know I was asked by

a Professor of a joy in Washington
how did I come with that number.

In I said I give a speech about
three years I see of a some

other file as how to
come up with a number.

Nine dollars.

Is what my number was.

As I made it up.

Every dollar you spend all preparedness
right and I would say nine dollars He said

I'm a look at that you know
I know that you're right and

he came back a year later he called
me said Hey look you were wrong.

Because he actually was for every dollar
you spend on this side in the disaster

in preparing you save
twelve dollars over here.

So since then I had a point of
reference given to me by a professor.

And what am I talking about.

If you don't put the generator
in the basement.

You don't have to build a one point
three billion dollars hospital for

which you got to borrow money
from the Chinese to Bill.

Or.
Didn't intervene ask you if you get

finance you got it.

OK.

We got to get to the left side of
disaster if you do not clog up the river

the Chattahoochee and
attribute errors when the floods come you.

Going to do a major insurance payout for
all these small villages all around

Georgia you've built in these valleys and
all these houses against a side of the.

The ridges and when the flood come
what happens it takes them out.

We've got to get to the left side of the
disaster is what I project we're going to

have to do we have to invest in preparing
as you have to design below living and

most powerful most probably
meant most dangerous and

that was the most
dangerous event in Georgia.

Someone you thought imagine many nuclear
power plant going bad how old is

the youngest nuclear power plant
we're in Georgia that's active.

There closer to thirty years old how
many of you drive a car as that age.

Good.

The land.

You might be a professor in driving
a thirty year old car a California.

There is a ram and reject in Georgia Tech
Yes Over the years wow dairy sections but

the point I'm getting to to you
that have an imagination with me.

Is that at what point did you know
we published the life expectancy for

a nickel and you have been told that.

If you ever get told the life
expectancy of a pipeline

in Louisiana we get seventy
thousand miles of pipeline.

Much of it bring fuel to here to laugh.

When I miss the Columbia
pipeline being replaced now.

That infrastructure is going
to have to be replace.

What is the life expectancy which is
lazy German We have a natural disaster

they can easily become
what a man made disaster.

There is much work for
you to do in this century and I'm thought.

Much of work and
much of it today is going to look.

Impossible.

And as we go into this new normal I read
two books one up leadership in the new

normal the other was survival
train the culture of preparedness.

If you get a chance you can drop down a
line take a look at it you know I have to

buy you can borrow more read I'm
online but I made points from

this talk out of those two books because
I do think the opportunities are there

the third point if we went back to
that picture of General Washington.

Leadership that he displayed was don't be
afraid to act even if you'd be criticize.

So we had three points only share
the routine things well don't be afraid

to take on impossible in number
three don't be afraid even if you

criticize because the things that you
don't want to do people are criticized for

if you stand around and
say we've got a pollution problem

then we are probably water
without a problem where there.

Were probably carbon and
problem with benzene and

methane dignity there would
a lot of people say you curries.

Intercession intercession problem.

But the problems are real.

We've got less clean water a day and we
heard yesterday now a solution in the room

might be what how do we go out and clean
that water up if you look at if you saw

a map was still up here the Mississippi
River if you get now the Mississippi River

is eight hundred square mile
dead zone that is manmade.

And where does it come from everybody
who dumps water and chemicals and

fertilizer and end up in the Mississippi
River eight hundred square mile dead zone.

That problem need to be
solved how did it created

that high level of phosphate proteins get
in Mississippi River it goes out there you

create a super new bio algae bloom
taller than this building and

when that algae die guess what happens it
goes to the bottom right and it kills.

All the.

Plant life animal life down a fish life
and when it does that it creates a dead

zone eight hundred square miles that
problem need to be solved that problem

need to be at the top of your
damn list here at Georgia Tech.

You got it.

The problem with how we're going
to solve this power issue you

need to be at the top of your damn lest.

Because we kid doing what we do and
to Mother Earth we kid

keep burning coal we can't
keep burning fossil fuel.

We will destroy this earth.

And the students in here.

The opportunities on the other side
impossible people will tell us impasse but

you want to have to solve these problems
you've got to solve that problem and

all those people who don't have clean
water and can't do this can turn

electricity on because my people here
do that what happened the people.

They become to struggle and
survive to come along and

say hey we really take care
of you let's go out here and

we're going to do a little We're going to
do a lot social unrest and the next thing

you know is we're going to create our own
country and the next thing you know if we

don't every leave people and they can't
take care of themselves what happens.

Things happen like Ebola.

Countries rich in natural resources but
don't have hospitals don't have a network

don't have a logistics system don't have a
communication system where they could take

care of their people and
they can go from folklore to science.

And making them understand that there
are changes that need to be made.

Your weaponry all these
things are tied together and

much I could be solved in
the engineering questions right here.

Because it's near and
can solve a lot of this

a lot of things that we look at
work be left for the preachers.

That theologians in the lawyers who work
on them lawyers get a lawyers in a room

will have their saw about the issues
associated with the Have and

Have Nots a lot of work for everybody
regardless of what discipline Syria.

That is the challenge of leadership and

preparedness in a twenty
first century U.M.E..

How about some discussion.

Questions.

Yes or.

Yeah.

Yes And

yeah and probably go floating again to.

Levees the idea behind
a levee is a good deal and

a levee give you early warning give you
some protection but it will not stop

floods because they are vulnerable
they can be overtopped.

The other thing you have malaria
somebody going along the way.

And employ the levee.

And sometimes road.

This basic roads beavers

you know other water fall type animals
go and they hang out hold it put a nice

fresh date appear in the night
place to go below hoochie.

And they say you know
the levees compromise or

what happens if you break I do think
it's a mistake when I was a young boy

running around with my grandfather
we had a place in Louisiana now for

from our own run a farm I said you
know we ought to buy a place and

I put my for each projects there
we could raise here he said Boy

limitation one hundred twenty seven there
is three thousand for the water there.

You go less same place right now and
there mega mansions there.

Exists a function of
time before they flood.

And you can go to old timers right
around here floor in Georgia.

Inside the flood zone and
you see these places are all you know or

they save this property just for us.

We know better.

Some of the biggest detriment to
prepare this is planning solves.

Planning in building communities
inside the counties the dilemma you

have here in Atlanta is you've got several
counties underneath the city right and

you don't have a central government.

And inside those counties
you have multiple cities and

that's the way people want it I
don't think people want to change

I do take some time in the in
the new normal you have to change.

You'll have to do what New York did
you have one marries in charge of your

police chief one fire chief everything
else is for people level and

you may not be ready for that and maybe
take another hundred years from the red

but at some point in time you market
in history is going to have to happen

you can't continue to run the city there
were years where the decentralized every

turn in a row got their own government I
mean they own mayor their own police chief

the only far the only fire chief in
a normal work is a broke system so

the political science people in
New York need to start mapping and

out what it ought to look like because
you're right in the millet of it right

here in Georgia Tech it's come all around
you I think I'm going to solve it and

I hope that answers your question.

Yes or.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

The woman.

Well the no night war is.

Your Hurricane Gustav came
three years after Katrina.

The waters from Gustaf would make
a direct hit on New Orleans was

overtip in the levees we've
got in the Lower Ninth Ward.

One of the issues with the Lower
Ninth Ward is that it became more

vulnerable over two things we got
the houses on miles of all and

yes exploration canals that have
been put into the wetlands.

You know the wetlands and biggest wetlands
and marshes in America right there in

that area of Louisiana well when they
put the exploration canals in there

in exploring the oil and gas business
in creating that yes what happened so

water came into the marsh and when
salt water came into the marsh we lose

equivalency of the state of Delaware
has been lost in the last forty years.

Hurricanes come in in the marsh
does what it eats up the energy of

the hurricane there's a quick lesson and
I mean there's probably a professor

here that spent a damn hour explaining
what happened but I mean yes.

This is the airport.

And say you know me it it's up to
the energy of the well we don't have that

Martian anymore.

But is associated with a manmade
Ivette by live in a canal

separate salt water in directly
into weapons so the fact that and

then come along we had
a powerful senator last decade

she insisted that they put up a canal and
promised to go.

So they were on a canal there
she said we want to put mystic.

Yeah and she was convinced by a lot of her
chamber of commerce friends if you put

Mr go in the ships would be able to get in
the city quick actually what they wanted

was they wanted to develop their
four hundred camps and resorts.

So building code communities went
from that good idea to Baba's in

the city to develop this land by putting
this canal in there would be a short

grass bare Terry a big go in the end
to the Industrial Canal thereby cut and

Shaka and
they could develop going you have got it.

That's how you ended up with
the interstate system that don't make any

sense that you laugh this
was a political decision.

Good engineers when I'm not designed
this piece to ship it where it is.

It was done this way
because the politicians.

Who wanted to develop lines so that's the
problem you young people have to correct

in the case of the Ninth Ward
when they put Mr go in there.

The way it happened was
the senator held up the promotion

of all according to mere generals.

And held up a corps engineer budget and
tele said OK if you were you going to get

ships never use mystical why because the
ships would try to go down and the ship

captains would get in there and the ships
would just go crazy because of the current

We're current that existed there so it
never got used it never got developed but

it was a villain for
Katrina to get into the night more.

You got it.

As a quick answer so you said tonight or

the dilemma of the night war was
we had time to evacuate you so

we picked the babies up on the street we
got a social economic issues a new all.

And we picked those babies up on Friday

as the first time I really got
angry I've been here three days.

Because your question to me was how did
these twin babies end up on the street

the Mama by yourself with no dead.

How did it happen.

But it had been the Army thirty five
years I kind of figured that out but

as this is this really got me upset.

We had to deal with that.

Because when you when I get when I often
talk to the children Defense Fund they

explain this to me said
General those babies.

They have a fifty percent chance
by the time they fourteen to be

dropouts from school.

They're not going to get a fair break.

That's a problem so we associate an
obligation we got into near your ship and

we've got pollution issues because when we
left those canals open if the tear it our

weapons and this is not just losing our
weapons this is your weapons you got it.

And that is left that whole law and
I was still it's acceptable to flood and

that's a good good point but
we are closing Mr Goh.

We want to spend your federal tax dollars
to close Mr Goh it was a bad idea from

the beginning it was a bad idea when it
was done and there's still a bad idea and

it overexpose in a war yes ma'am.

Yeah.

Well the way that worked is
we got the coordination here.

Norman used the general
pretty good outfit.

They build stuff based on
what politicians want.

What they will pay for and what they
will approve they build the projects and

to turn them over to without armor
work the local levee boards.

In New Orleans the levee boards
cronies of the governors.

The new was levied board literally
were running a golf course.

And the were take care of
each other's yards and

it created hunting camps not for
everybody to go to for

what it was it just a corrupt system
since then this is in New Orleans have

created a competent levee board with
engineers on it hydrologists and you

know people who kind of know what they're
doing I think they know what to do now but

for a long time that was overridden by
political favors is not an excuse I'm just

telling you it was I was off in the Army.

And when I was in Louisiana I wasn't
invited to the room if you understand what

I'm saying.

And that's a social economic issue
that caused that to happen and

we spent fourteen billion dollars
that city can still flood again

you ought to know that just like Atlanta
can flood our seven year flood again yes

ma'am.

All of the above the mayor call for

the evacuation of the city on Friday Mayor
will by the way is in jail now.

He called for you vacuum ration that tell
me who ought to be in jail yes it is

question when you know who I
should be with you know the work.

The mare coffee evacuation on Friday.

The school board.

Don't work for the mayor.

The screw board said we got
a Saints game and they.

Said if we start evacuating with
the people deal with the children

because the sense of it is
a Sin City we have a new game

the snow maker Mattel's Sunday
this is a preseason game and

all the hotel operators where do
they say we got these tickets so

this is a lot of economic activity.

So a lot of people I coulda
left Friday didn't leave

as the Saints game is covered on
Friday night pre-season game Saturday

seventy miles away in our state
capital guess who's playing football.

L.A. shoe and I'm convinced in
the Southeast Conference if you want to

take this part of America do
not open a football season and

the Russians will come in and
take all the shit.

Because everybody with a brain
is only way to a game or a game.

So we had that paralysis of
decision because people say well if

the Saints play football why would I want
to leave we get our car leave them are and

the people as you say would have
the game Saturday morning against

that door state you know one
of them throw away games.

You know is a practice game
we have to have a game so

they had a need when you
take the capital city and

you fill it up with football people
whether the people in New Orleans go.

The storm is coming to New Orleans they've
got to go to Memphis they got to go to

Jackson that created a dilemma for
the city and you all.

Then on Saturday the president call I was
on the call I was right here in Atlanta

for you all that's my job
the person on the storm

president of United States on the phone
he's talked to my boss Keating in Colorado

the star in the Pentagon
they're all on a state

he said I got a call from Richie
the director and we heard.

He said he said is then his comment is
come as strong as coming somewhere in

the Gulf we knew that Saturday and he
said it looks like it's coming loose and

we want to declare a national
disaster right now

that the ration of presidential
declaration first ave been done.

In Morgantown natural in presence of that
already happened all of Saturday Sunday

you know the rest of the story right
people with cars left wind up with sixty

seventy thousand people in the city many
of them went to resorts of less if you do

a poll or how much money you got
on the twenty ninth in a month.

So how do you get out of town.

That's a part of the limb and
we end up with a lot of these associates

Adamic issues but they can go back
to since you're an ingenue you screw

the engineering profs then they go
through what if anomic problems

because they had that game
because the economics.

That.

This is the levers these are the problems
ya gotta saw there's a lot of work for

you to do all the people professors
that tell you all the good stuff is done

they're wrong there's
a lot of good stuff for

you students to work on it is new normal
because you've got to solve these problems

you've got to solve these problems with
energy you've got to solve the problem of

water you have to solve these problems
the availability of technology is so

much to be done OK the elephant in
the room is the bowl what went wrong.

Things been around a long time.

One of the things is we got caught and
we weren't ready.

Just like Katrina came to lose and

they weren't ready you saw the storm come
all the way out of nowhere Katrina went

through Cuba as a Category
three kill a team people.

Became a lose in Mississippi and
kill over eighteen hundred and

that's a poor country.

How did that happen.

These are the issues of
the time nature of I think.

And again people don't evacuate because
the form of government is the American

tell the school who are to do and
scoop or chasing the Saints and L.A.S.U.

our flagship institution they were vital
to seize the furball So by Sunday night

the storm is bearing down on the city and
you've got to close the city seventy

thousand people are dead didn't get out of
the city many of them poor people I can

say this the majority of people we
found there war elderly disabled and

pour some time or three of
the eight hundred people to die so

I speak to the fact that the bubble
population they houses or

are not as well structurally sound and
they're more apt to live in a plug and

when it's time to come for the leave
they can't leave the two points for

you to take with you take away
in the middle of a disaster

be prepared to figure out what
rules you're going to break.

You know write anything
else down write that down.

In the middle of a disaster figure out
what route you're going to bring I'll give

you two quick examples there's about
time for you to go number one example

I'll give you is.

Airport new all.

We get the airport open on Saturday
morning remember storm came Monday morning

we did it over Saturday morning now
the state transportation command center

airplanes in this is a sight to see all
these big wide body planes coming in

T.S.A. out of Atlanta shipped a lot of
T.S.A. people in we got the National Guard

bring the people to the airport New
Orleans airport they get there are going

to get people on an airplane we'll get no
more on this is a great site to see and

get pictures on up like very I
mean this thing is happening.

I get a call from a major major park
she lives here in Atlanta he said.

Also got a problem so
what's the problem say the T.S.A.

people say are the key here lovely people.

You know have to bring some more T.S.A.
screeners in with some more why are.

They came here low.

OK let me talk to them I was
about to get on my helicopter and

fly in the new orders and
I was over Mississippi.

And so OK so you got him in a room I said.

Put him on the speakerphone library.

I mean so and so on T.S.H.

you know we're here to help you but
we just our Atika pass it.

You know you're about to
hear some dumb shit and

when you hear somebody in the government
say the worker passed it.

Is that on their checklist so I said What
is the problem what you mean you know I

had the capacity say well we need more
people we need more Was this too many

people first a check let's get back to the
fact of why do you check in these people

they are poor They've been standing
around the Superdome and on bridges for

almost seven days what are you
talking about I said let me tell you

Mr Agent Osama bin Laden
is not an alarmist.

I was here when we dreamed up this
dumb shit that you understand

Osama bin Laden is not in
New Orleans I can assure you that

we put nice people on the plane
do you understand and

his lawyer boy boy she said OK.

We love you guys how stupid this nation
will look if we didn't load these people

on airplanes and I tell you in the mail
every disaster we come up with a checklist

or some about the load
said you can we do this.

When we create a law some of you remember
when you got on the plane you got.

It's a ticket you walked on to play.

I was there now all of
a sudden we got our rules.

The next this is asked to happen about two
hours later that group airplanes took all

we get the pilots respect the night before
in some five star hotel some place they

walk into the airport my colonel call
me because you see I'm walking now and

they look at for who's in charge so

they find this cone stand right
next to my major and the guy said.

We need to know who's running this and
Colonel said well I guess

I'm here represent first Army you're on or
a guess OK we've got a problem said

the last the first group airplanes
took of didn't have a manifest.

And the F.A.A.
requires us to have a man that's.

So the Colonel calm I say you know routine
take him in a room get to play very own

turn to speak.

So the guy had to do zip tap
is spent through see one for

he was on C one thirty great guy.

And then he get down this way say what we
can you take off your house it was less

airplane took off without no manifest
F.A.A. rules or we had to have a manifest.

I said Well where do you think
we can get a manifest from and

I described to you want
us to pull up from.

These people don't have
any identification.

Hello They were an hourly
house in a million night so

not didn't have a den of
occasion before this storm.

And we're going to tell them in America
they can't get on the plane because you

keep three I cannot create a manifest
you can give me twenty four hours and

I can make you know that
is a lot surreal prop.

I said you know we can't media's.

But it's a problem for you.

Because we've got a guns and you don't.

Reload.
He's got the airplanes.

And the little boys came out OK.

You take responsibility I do and you know
to my lawyer said Coleman Washington

tell him what's happened because you're so
beyond C.N.N. to you know

we load it was airplane Well I've done
years in the middle of a disaster

somebody is going to bring some stupid
law is that a stupid law who's in charge

of the road going in Atlanta.

They can't hear you.

The politicians they're all of given
each other wards they don't damn know.

You understanding are saying
we got to fix that so

these young people in a room
there's a lot of work for

you to do regardless of what disciplines
you go to be in there's a lot of stuff

that need to be fixed we are we
are far from a perfect world.

And all that create opportunities for
you and I hope you take advantage

of those opportunities and
solve some of these issues.

There that we did the greatest
generation left a lot of work for

you to do the boomers
continue to create a work for

you because we were bigger cars and
less gas mileage and

said we create work for
you to solve whether you look at it

from a medical perspective disasters
from the money energy would impact and

have to how we be engineered our cities
and you've got a lot of problems

to fix and I hope your professors who did
day there will guide you through that

because you've got to fix these problems
and it's not option because when we fix

them in this country we'll it will be a
lead to fix in other countries in this or

both think it's a Katrina and
I don't mean to talk administration but

is the thing that has happened that.

At the source of it.

That we're losing the war.

And we're losing the war over the last
three weeks of all going over dumb shit

here in United States you know
saying like the Texas the.

Then more ready as opposed
to saying they want ready

they try to say well you know we Texas.

We doing what the C.D.C. say.

You are saying then the C.D.C. did jump in
this role that they're going to go out and

jump on grenades it's not their job.

The C.D.C. ought to be doing a policy in
their prevention and making sure we've got

the vaccinations be an engineer
their job is not to go jump over me.

And you can just see it happening.

Three nine eleven we did
exercises every six months or

pandemic epidemics and
bioterrorism nine eleven happened and

what did our national focus became how
to terrorism and that's where the money

went we spend sixty billion dollars a year
in Homeland Security sixty billion dollars

So there's a lot of work for
you all to do.

And a lot of the solution is to come
right out of this great institution

because I do think you know put
academics before football blushes.