City had evacuation plan but strayed from strategy

[bhallg2k]

Yup, and If Bush and company would have bypassed the Governor...who wasn't doing shit...the Mayor....who wasn't doing shit...and sent in the Military to clear the city all these people would have been screaming on how the industrial military complex just implemented Marshall Law in New Orleans!! Shit, Pisshead would have got a hard-on about that shit!!

I'm not sure too many people would've complained about airdrops of food and water, about the establishment of mobile hospitals and housing centers, about a command and control structure that was clear and definite, no.

I don't think anyone's arguing that the state and local governments responded properly to this situation when the ball was completely in their court. I'm just saying that Nagin and Blanco passed the ball off pretty quickly once they realized it was too big for them so that the federal government could run the show.

The federal government, however, was nowhere to be found for a painfully long week when they had advance notice and the capabilities.

Fuck, Canadian rescue teams made it to New Orleans before FEMA did.