>>Our decider in chief has decided that Katrina was perfectly handled by more then qualified people:
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>>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/06/AR2006100601527.html
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>Cause he doesn't get it. He made FEMA a dumping ground for political favors, putting the head of the Arabian Hordse Asstn. as head of FEMA. Yep, very qualified. Then, you'll remember, he went to the Gulf area and NOLA and said "Brownie's doing a heck of a job!". Then he promised money to fix the damage.
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>FEMA has been decidedly improved now, after Congress stepped in (the same ones that did not care when and unqualified gent was put in charge in the first place). But the money and Federal help for NOLA is still *very* short on what he promised. These days he does not visit, nior care to mention the area, unless there's a Republican candidate to support for the election.

Not all agencies responded poorly. The response we provided (EPA Region 6 in Dallas, other Regions provided massive support to us as well) was a notable exception. The Drinking Water initial responders are all people I know and work with. We had the advantage of only being a very short drive away. I was part of the response effort as well, but I was not deployed until the middle of January for 4 weeks. I worked the northern shore of Pontchartrain (sp?) during that time.

http://www.epa.gov/oig/reports/2006/20060914-2006-P-00033.pdf

Also, we have not been sitting idle this year either. The next response by us will be even better based on the prep work we have done since this Spring.