Anyone in FEMA should have been able to see that the levees would likely fail, and if they DID fail, the disaster would be beyond the scope of what the local or state authorites could do.
I have no experience with disaster relief and I'm not going to pull things out of my wazoo about what I would do better. The point is that even when the storm hit, FEMA had nothing but a skelleton staff around and apparently was comnpletely flat-footed in the wake of the storm. The people in charge didn't even know the simple facts that Jow Shmoe could see with a television set. They didn't prepare for the known fact that the Levees might very well fail- didn't even believe they would despite the fact it was common knowledge everywhere else.
If you want to play 'well what would YOU have done' game with me, my answer to you is simple: I would have at least tried to do something. FEMA did nothing.
DL
Current Events » in reply to Lets assume everyone knew the levy was going to fail 60-70 hours before Katrina.
Thats sort of the point- they *should* have known the levees were going to fail 36-48 hours out, and ended up doing nothing
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- This was reply to something on flame, but rightly belongs here
- re: This was reply to something on flame, but rightly belongs here
- One thing you said, in all of that glop, was meaningful
- You missed the main point and dodged others
- Which was easy, because there was no main point, nor any others
- Not Federal Troops
- Gosh, Don't make me pull a Brosz on you. ;-)
- re: my point
- Talk about bullshit
- Try not skimming next time.
- Talk about bullshit
- Which was easy, because there was no main point, nor any others
- You missed the main point and dodged others
- One thing you said, in all of that glop, was meaningful
- Where is chicken little when we need her?
- So what if he lied. So what if Bush lied. What's the difference?
- Context
- Agreed, start to finish
- go ahead, blame Bush.
- For non-response by an agency administered by the Executive branch of which he is the head? Sure!
- go ahead, blame Bush.
- Levee failure
- This is silly
- what preparation would have prevented the levy failure?
- se above (n/t)
- re: This is sillier
- for every thread, spin,spin,spin
- Lets assume everyone knew the levy was going to fail 60-70 hours before Katrina.
- Thats sort of the point- they *should* have known the levees were going to fail 36-48 hours out, and ended up doing nothing
- Lets assume everyone knew the levy was going to fail 60-70 hours before Katrina.
- for every thread, spin,spin,spin
- what preparation would have prevented the levy failure?
- This is silly
- Oh, the original lead into that, the context that its missing was:
- re: This was reply to something on flame, but rightly belongs here