Apples and oranges, imo. No excusing Blanco's incompetence, but the problems in the outlying areas are ones that we have dealt with before. Nothing like what happened in NO has ever happened; and evidently, whatever drills were run did not do much good.
People get paid to game out doomsday planning, The Mayor and the Governor have to be complete morons not to have thought about this. Who should know the populace and how they would act? The Mayor! When you are the Mayor it is your responsibility to make sure the bases are covered. People say they did not know what to do, who's fault is that? These people should have been told what to do if they got stuck. Before the storm. Every year! We have tornado safety re-education every year. Every Year, here's what to do in the case of a tornado, here's what to do if there is a flood, here is what to do if there is a blizzard. Our Government puts that info out there when the sky is blue and the clouds are puffy. It's tragic that these folks do not have a clue how to help themselves.