Prepardness starts at home you idiot. As Parish President it is YOUR responsiblity to ensure that disaster plans for your constituents are in place and, if not, to either prepare such plans yourself or force the city to do so - maybe even by owrking together with the other parishes.
To carry that further, city governments are just as repsonsible for ensuring the same thing - By working with other cities and the state.
Finally, the States have the same responsibility and should work with other states to prpare for such things.
Federally, the government has "master plans", but these are large scale and are designed to ensure that the states themselves recieve the assistence they need to conduct disaster recovery operations.
It is the hight of idiocy to expect the federal government to have a plan in place to react to every possible emergency at a local level.
If you really want that Mr. Rodriguez, then may I suggest that your job, the job of the parish government, city government, state government etc... is unnecessary. We can expand federal authority (and the size of thre federal government) to extend to EVERYTHING. Somehow, I don't think that this would work very well...
Oh, and one last thought. One of the traits that truely defines a leader is that, when faced with a situation where "everything" has gone wrong - instead of wasting time and energy looking for someone to blame - he reacts to the "new" situation and gets the job done. The Blame Game is left to the children.
Bump!
So how do you face your neighbors... your constituents... your meal tickets... when you have been shown powerless at best, and culpable at worst? I guess you start pointing fingers and start reading from the MSM teleprompters. My guess is that it is gonna be tough living with yourself, Henry.