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No. The answer is to get rid of corrupt Democratic-run machines. Mississippi didn't have these problems, Alabama didn't have these problems. Florida, with all of her hurricanes, hasn't had these problems. California didn't have these problems with the San Francisco and Northridge earthquakes. Look at New York after 9/11. The cure is worse than the disease.

Again, the above is true. So very, very true.

In the event of a disaster, I'm sticking with my story, it's not time for the feds, who are supposed to be backup, to be trying to "judge" whether the locals are up to it.

I think I'm right and I think the premise is going to change.

Tons of dollars have been thrown at local authorities. They were supposed to be using them to train and prepare. I'm sorry, if the local authorities are paralyzed by the disaster they are supposed to aid, where's the logic to that?

This is not a joke. In the event of a disaster there's no time for the feds to be sitting around figuring out if THIS is a local authority capable of dealing with it.

We all know that there's urban areas across the country that have elected corrupt politicians and corruption starts at the head and rots on down.

Suppose, say, Detroit were hit by a disaster such as NO.

Just because the well-trained and responsible local authorities in Fl, Ala and Miss do the right thing, it's just wrong to think that's the case across the planet.

Does anyone really think the authorities in Detroit would do as well as those in Mississippi?

Chertoff today said it was a bad premise.

Take it to the bank, it's all going to change.

Weeding out local corruption and changing a socialistic national mindset will take years. Meanwhile a dirty bomb might go off in Detroit.

Sure. It makes me mad. People should act right.

After watching this NO thing unfold, 24/7, I understand the failure. And luckily, the DELAY in the coordinated federal response did not cost many lives, deducting the lives lost because of the actual disaster.

Hey, I don't know how it's all going to play out after the emergency is over. But when immediate response is required and a decent plan, we can't assume just because they do it right in Mississippi they will do it right in Detroit.

Tons of dollars have been thrown at local authorities. They were supposed to be using them to train and prepare.

Hoo boy, after 9/11 it was raining money from Washington if you were a local yokel PD. I saw a thing on TV, it might have been John Stossel, where they showed all these penny ante PD's in Mulescratch TN buying bomb defusing trucks and lord knows what all else. They said have you used this stuff yet, and the response was "no but we're fixing to".

Suppose, say, Detroit were hit by a disaster such as NO.

You have touched on something I have been thinking about all day today.

If I'm running a terrorist cell and want to have maximum effect, I would look for some way to have a catastrophe in a large city with a lawless and barely restrained underclass with a corrupt political leadership (I guess those last two things go hand in hand).

I would try to engineer some sort of horrific event in Philadelphia.

There are more people there than in Detroit, but, in its day, Detroit would have been a good place to try it, too.