Correct, but the politicians won't draw the correct conclusions. The federal government has failed. There is no wall that would keep out a cat 5 hurricane to the west of NO, so any promise to do so would represent another fed gov failure. It's ok to provide federal aid AFTER the crisis as we are now doing. But anyone from now on who thinks the federal government is going to keep them safe is an idiot.
I'd go further, and say that it's good to have a clear pitcure of the form that government relief takes, too.
I said after 9/11, one of the best things the leaders could do would be to admit their limitations, instead of talking up their capabilities. Society is better served by self-reliance and local charity than by reliance on a political bureacracy.