(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
What you said!
What's worse is Mayor Nagin said they had an improved plan AFTER the Ivan fiasco. What's CRIMINAL is that they did not call for mandatory evacuation until LESS THAN 24 hours before Katrina made landfall. After the call for the mandatory evacuation was made, they should have used all those school buses, that we now see sitting in water, to go through the neighborhoods BEFORE the storm hit and move people out of the city.
The reason Mayor Nagin and Gov. Blanco are screaming that the federal government failed is to draw attention away from the fact that they had no plan, improved or otherwise.
The incompetence of these two people and their staffs have literally cost thousands of people their lives. Two of my loved ones were there in New Orleans waiting for the mayor to call for the evacuation. I got on the phone to my daughter on Friday and told them not to wait, it would cost them their lives. She thought I was over-reacting when I told her it would be up to them to save their own lives. I'm so glad they got out early.