The LA Times had a very detailed, very sound examination of the situation to date. And how situations like this require the federal government to take charge. Yet all the officials stayed out of Washington for days.

Reminisent of Bush reading from the book on 9-11. Giving a speech in CA and AZ and having birthday cake with McCain.

There were definitely issues with how the situation was handled at a local level. But the federal govt was supposed to be ready for this type of thing, yet failed at every possible level.

PF

>>I saw an official from the Salvation Army on Fox News state that they had set up 71 canteens within New Orleans on August 30th. I have no clue what that entails. How did so many people live for so long without water?
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>I am sure we are going to see finger pointing about that for a long time.
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>>Lives were lost and it will take a long time to know just what happened. Stories from different television reports seemed to contradict each other.
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>>I kept wishing that one of the television news people would save someone rather then give “eyewitness accounts” and say, "time for a commercial". One reporter did bring a lady and her dog to safety in the news helicopter. They said no pets were allowed to be saved with his/her owner. That would be taken care of by the SPCA. Want to bet?
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>It wouldn't surprise me.