My source tells me the David Matsuda will be spending the night in Third Co. tonight. I wonder if the heat will be back on or hot water for his shower in the morning.
luv2fly
It's my understanding that Administrator Matsuda did spend the night in Third Co earlier this week, I have NO idea why or WHAT GOOD that can or did accomplish. Given the stupidity surrounding this issue I have jumped to the conclusion that it's none! None at all!
Do I sound outraged - I hope so. My son was one of the affected mids and had one of the highest levels of CO in his blood to my understanding. He came home this weekend and relatively casually told me how the way this leak was detected was when mids came back from TMs and started wondering about the smells and noticed how their roommates, etc were so affected. As was noted earlier, we parents all need to thank God that no one was killed by the neglect and incompetence that allowed this to occur. I'm talking about the neglect and incompetence that led to the fact that every day and night at a Federal Academy, a location where our nation's best and brightest are recruited and go to start their lives and service to our Nation's greater good, are AND HAVE been allowed to be subject to such an incident, in violation of local and state laws that every other similar institution of higher learning must comply. That is an outrage and as Luigi notes, we can only hope someone wakes up and does something about quickly.
I fear instead of that our incompetent Maritime Administrator, on the advice of his lawyers at MARAD will sweep this under the rug as fast and best he can, instead of properly responding and doing something constructive as they will no doubt consul him to do maximum CYA first and foremost for the Government and secondarily for himself.
If sleeping in Third Co was meant to reassure parents like myself that the Academy is a safe place and that he and his staff are doing everything possible to make sure my son and the other members of the Regiments safe keeping and good health are critical to their thinking and efforts, it did not. Now if he showed up, had an rapid plan to install CO detectors every place on campus where NYS law has said they should have been since 2005, using some leftover Recovery Act funds or wherever he and his boss Secretary LaHood could rapidly gather them from, and had a "Go Team" formed to help Acting Supe Kumar quickly address the other issues with the Capital Plant rather than continuing to talk it to death like the bureaucrat he is, then I wouldn't be so critical. Of course the way I feel right now, that sort of stuff only happens in the happiest place on earth and I'm not getting ready to go on "Its A Small World" right now.
Sorry for the rant but in this case I believe it's entirely called for and as I say, until I talked to my son when he and I were in the same room for the first time since the incident, I really didn't realize how lucky we were to not have to have travelled up to Long Island last Sunday to an ICU or something worse.
