[bobwoodard]

Don't forget on Tuesday it went from relief (since the levees were intact) to evacuate/rescue to relief/evacuate/rescue in a matter of 24-48 hours. Just how nimble can any agency be to respond to those types of dynamics?

[cgbg]

relief/evacuate/rescue

New Orleans flooding was a well-known reasonable probability event in say, the next fifty or a hundred years. The plans should have been in place--and DHS should have known in advance how long it would take to execute them. However long it was it was, but they should not have been shocked when the city started to flood from the Lake.

I would have liked to have seen the administration stating they knew this was possible, they had prepared for it, and this is what the timeline would look like:

Day 1....
Day 2....
Day 3....
Day 4....

Many of us are convinced the plan had not been developed until the last minute and _that_ made good communication impossible.