[USNBandit]

It almost seems like FEMA needs to have a posse of government assist teams to shadow the local government officials. Whenever the locals start hitting a roadblock the FEMA guy whispers in the locals ear "PSST, I can fix that," or "Have you thought about, _____."

There are some local governments, NYC for example, that are geared to handle almost anything. N.O. doesn't seem geared to handle anything past a Mardi Gras crowd and even that takes a lot of outside LEOs. For example ,the Mayor didn't know enough to utilize his school buses, but yesterday was asking about spraying aircraft to spray for mosquitos. Another example is all the communications problems. The N.O. Police don't have any comms and I'm sure FEMA has a metric tonne of IRIDIUM sat phones charged up and ready to rock.

[XHogPilot]

It almost seems like FEMA needs to have a posse of government assist teams to shadow the local government officials. Whenever the locals start hitting a roadblock the FEMA guy whispers in the locals ear "PSST, I can fix that," or "Have you thought about, _____."

That is in fact, what many in FEMA do. Recheck this article for starters...