Thank God for the Dept of Homeland SecurityFollow

Well, that explains a **** of a lot.

You know FEMA reports to them now, right?

TRAITOR!!!!

No. I was trying to imply that maybe they used to do a better job of responding prior to being moved under DHS.

Not that I know that to be true. Just speculating because I'm too lazy to research it.

Let's take a look at what happened, since people seem to become media puppets so easily.

People were ordered to evacuate, many did. Some couldn't leave.

Hurricane veers to the east and New Orleans doesn't take heavy damage

The next day the water starts coming in.

Obviously relief was on the way to New Orleans but since the catastrophic damage didn't come until a day after, forces that weren't going to New Orleans originally had to move out to respond to the new damage which was much worse then the hurricane.

You have a large city that is mostly underwater so you have to deal with transportation issues. You have to get countless supplies and resources loaded up into trucks and then you have to get those supplies in the city which has had it's transportation infrastructure greatly destroyed.

On top of that they have to deal with people shooting at them and snipers holding families hostage inside their homes. The police have to deal with hundreds of stores being broken into so people can run off with DVD players and jewelry.

Our people are doing the best they can there. People like you expect hundreds of vehicles, tons of supplies, and tens of thousands of people to be transported instantly. It takes time, and the conditions of the city aren't helping.

It all starts with the Governor and even the mayor of New Orleans. The Governor had nothing in place to sustain the people of New Orleans until the federal government and relief organizations could get there.

The mayor didn't have any organized plan to keep some kind of order in the city, and most of his police ran off after the disaster. Sorry, but that's not good leadership.

In situations like this, people must be able to sustain themselves until help comes. The state and local governments are the first who must be prepared. They dropped the ball by doing nothing the whole time before the feds got to the city.

When it comes to the federal government, nobody will ever be approving of what they do. This is because people have overly high expectations from the government.

You may have heard the mayor of New Orleans on CNN radio, yelling about how everybody else is doing nothing (mainly pointing his finger at the feds). You may not know that he smuggled rich tourists from a hotel near him and placed them in front of his own people to get on the busses. His blaming of everybody else is to mask his huge mistakes and doting.

Edited, Sat Sep 3 15:10:27 2005 by VorakX

Homeland security tries to play off like they had no idea this would happen.

Now, I won't bore you with the 50 hundred or so predictions this would happen, but its safe to say that everyone who could did predict this would happen. Except the people responsible for helping those would couldn't do anything about it.

Yes, its the fault of the local and state governments for not realizing this would happen to. But they've been screaming bloody murder since it started to get aid in. And if you've been watching CNN, you know that the aid has been massivly uncorrdinated VS the response that every other national emergency has ever recieved.