Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/07/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]May I beg to differ. Atleast the Netherlands, Germany and Italy charge their country men the full cost of such an evacuation. I'm talking from my own experience, in oct 2003 I happened to be at the wrong place, la Paz, Bolivia. My wive and I arrived the day before el Alto exploded, and the next day (sunday) we discovered that we were locked up, together with other dutch, german, italian, australian etc travellers. On the next friday the EC countries decided to start an evacuation, we had to leave the places were we stayed and were moved to a "more save location", On saterday the evacuation started with 2 german tour groups. We and the other looses travellers were to be evacuated the next day. Lucky for us, that saterday the president fled the country, and the rest of the evacuation was canceled. However it was made clear to all of us, that the full cost of the evacuation, taxis, bus, hotel cost and the cost of the helicopter+airfares to home would be prepaid by the embassy, but at home we had to pay the Dutch, german .. goverment the full cost of the evacuation. We were lucky that the evacuation was cancelled, so we had only to pay the costs of the transport from the embassy to the new "save hotel" and the costs of the new hotel. Meino de Graaf Robert Meier wrote: > I think the "laughing stock" idea came from the stated intention of the > US government to charge its citizens for the trip based on the current > air fare from Beirut to Larnaca. No other country charges its own > citizens for evacuating them from a war zone. I have heard this morning > that Sec. of State Rice has stepped in and said that noone will be > charged. Brush fire put out. > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Langer" > <langeratcarleton@gmail.com> > To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org> > Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2006 10:21 AM > Subject: Re: [Leica] OT--Lebanon/ FEMA again? > > >> I'm not a huge fan or your current administration, but can't see the >> problem >> there. Certainly, the Americans are getting their people out quicker >> than >> some countries (you should be aware of the slow progress of evacuation >> plans >> for up to 40,000 Canadian citizens in Lebanon). It is the height of the >> summer cruise season and ships capable of carrying passengers are in >> short >> supply. Military vessels are not equipped to handle thousands of >> civilian >> evacuees, to say nothing of the logistics of moving people around within >> Lebanon during the conflict. So I'm not clear about the basis of your >> criticism. I've been looking at news reports from outside your >> country, and >> am not aware that the U.S. evacuation effort has made your country the >> "laughing stock of the world." Could you give us some indication where >> this laughter is coming from? >> >> Mark >> >> On 7/19/06, Bill Smith <wrs111445@yahoo.com> wrote: >>> >>> Is FEMA in charge of the "evacuation" of our fellow Americans? Shades of >>> post Katrina--once again we're the laughing stock of the world. I >>> pray for a >>> new administration that doesn't screw up everything they touch. >>> __________________________________________________ >>> Do You Yahoo!? >>> Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around >>> http://mail.yahoo.com >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >