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BS!
If a CAT4 or CAT5 is projected to hit within 100 miles,any sane person will evacuate.
FEMA is comprised of civilians, intent upon saving lives. FEMA is NOT even tangebtally related to trained components of the DOD, who primarily focus on terminating external enemy lives.
As we swiftly descend into liberal anarchy,pick your poison.
Death by incompetence or death by design.

Within the last year Florida and other States on the Gulf Coast have begun changing their hurricane planning to reflect the reality that you can't evacuate everyone. There isn't enough fuel available. Possibly 25 to 30 percent of the population may be able to leave but the rest will have to stay. There are no other options. People in low areas and in mobile homes are told to move to shelters but everyone else is advised to find a windowless room in their home and wait out the storm.

Basically if you can keep the windows and roof on your home you will survive. But if you don't get supplies to people within a short time they will begin dieing. That is where FEMA has made their mistakes. Time is too critical to wait to organize a plan, then put together truck convoys, and establish centralized food and water distribution points. That plan takes several days to execute. Hundreds of people are dead in New Orleans because of that plan.

There is absolutely no technical reason why pallets of food, water, tarps, cheap plastic umbrellas, and first aid kits couldn't be dropped by C130 aircraft within a few hours after the storm has passed. Drop one pallet every few blocks throughout the city and people will be able to survive for several days. They may not be comfortable but they will be alive when the ground convoys can reach the area.

After last years hurricanes in Florida FEMA had plenty of opportunities to learn from their mistakes but they did nothing. That is criminal negligence and the leadership should be indicted for felony manslaughter.