As my wife and I were watching the disaster unfold, we kept asking ourselves questions like where were all the seemingly obvious emergency actions? The truth is you or I could have handled that emergency better than the numbskulls in charge in La. They knew that a big hurricane could wreck their city, and still had NO!!! plan. Few emergency workers, no food and water stockpiles, not enough security, no boats (incredible as it sounds). The mayor even ignored the opportunity to use school buses and public transportation vehicles to evacuate the citizens. It was if they reacting to events as they happened rather than having a coordinated plan of action. Gross, shameful incompetence bordering on criminality.
This episode proves that stupidity and incompetence account for a significant percentage of deaths in disasters of this magnitude.
Gross, shameful incompetence bordering on criminality
One of the casualties of POLITICAL CORRECTNESS is that we don't call a spade a spade.
It wasn't bordering on criminality, it WAS criminal behavior.