Frankly, I don't know why so many keep referring to the response to 9/11. It covered only a few blocks of a city. This disaster stretched from NO to Pensacola.
Well I do see one comparison, all the carping about why nothing was being done to the terrorists while the military took the time it needed to stage personnel and supplies. But when the military was in place, you saw quick and decisive results.
People tend to forget these kinds of facts.
let's not belittle what happened in manhattan on 9-11. no one knew if other planes were coming, manhattan has millions of people on it, people had to be evacuated, order maintained.
I'm not comparing NO to NYC, all I am saying is that imagine if Rudy and Pataki and the entire government apparatus bugged out.