Given that they had three days warning and that it was 5 days before large quantities of food and water were deliveredto New Orleans and a secure atmosphere for disbursement was established it seems clear that this was slow - 8 days to get basic supplies in.
While I believe that there were problems at all levels I don't feel the need to say who gets how much blame. We can do that later.
You sound like the 'rats that were saying on Friday that it's been 6 days since the hurricane hit.
Go buy a calculator.
Remember while ago when you said this?
Well I'm too new for my opinion to count much but for the record, I agree with you.
It's not because you're new; it's because you're MISINFORMED.
Simply because the media didn't show it to you, doesn't mean it was not happening. You need to remember that roads had to be cleared. Trucks, buses and other vehicles had to be driven from locations many miles away. Everything had to be staged and directed. The logistics are mindboggling.
Last year, with Hurricane Ivan approaching New Orleans, the estimate for evactuations, etc., if the city flooded was 10 days, at best.
I guess you haven't read the articles that due to the president's declaring a State of Eemergency on Sunday, the day before the storm hit, FEMA was on the ground outside LA, waiting for the storm to pass, loaded with food and water.
But a few little things like water, fallen trees and snipers made it impossible to move about the city and actually distribute anything.
But nice try anyway.
"Given that they had three days warning and that it was 5 days before large quantities of food and water were deliveredto New Orleans "
Just how many days warning did they have that the levees were going to breach, so that most of those people could not simply go home and take a shower?
BTW- Welcome to FR
Sorry, your time line doesn't make sense.
Why would you be bringing in food before the hurricane hit land? Given that they so often change direction, you have to wait until the land fall.
Then you have to remember that everything seemed ok when the eye of the hurrican passed to the east of New Orleans. The catastrophe began when the levee failed. Aid arrived in about 72 hours....which is how long FEMA guides local authorities to prepare for their own support.
WE are doing it now.
You've made that statement on the wrong board, try and get that posted on DU.
You're also confusing response with laying blame.
The left has hired airplanes to fly banners around the Houston Astrodome towing "Blame Bush" banners so they appear on national TV, and you want us to sit politely and wait? Well, by God, I've waited 30 years to respond to those bastards. Is that long enough? How much 'wait until later' do you think is appropriate when they are trying to destroy this presidency?
We would be utter fools not to respond at once to the hurricane of criticism coming from the left. That is what THIS thread is all about, and I for one am grateful for the talent FR has on board.