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"FEMA appeared to be overwhelmed by the enormity of the situation."

Sometime in the last couple of days I saw an interview with the FEMA director (Might have been on Larry King -- it all runs together.)

He said that by Sunday, FEMA had staged in-place the standard Category 4-5 hurricane "package" - which was based on Hurricane Andrew experience. (I remember as late as Monday afternoon, people on-air were saying that this storm wasn't as bad as Andrew)

By sunrise Tuesday, he said, he knew that "package" was not going to be sufficient, and that they were going to be scrambling to play catch-up.

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"He said that by Sunday, FEMA had staged in-place the standard Category 4-5 hurricane "package" - which was based on Hurricane Andrew experience...By sunrise Tuesday, he said, he knew that "package" was not going to be sufficient, and that they were going to be scrambling to play catch-up. "

This is where they dropped the ball....but how could they be blamed...Should we change the package for Cat 4/5 relief going forward when 95% of Cat4/5 hurricanes would have been adequately responded to with existing package?

Maybe there needs to be two cat4/5 packages...one for land falling hurricanes striking land not surrounded by water and one for the other...

Andrew was devastating, but Katrina made Andrew look kids play.....