Chertoff said locals never told him about victims showing up at the convention center in video conference on midday Tuesday.
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When officials do the after action studies they will learn when people started to appear at the convention center. I think it was a location that the Coast Guard rescue was using. I think that there were few to no people there on Tuesday. We have to remember that Michael Chertoff is not the New Orleans Director of Emergency Operations or even the Gulf Coast Director of EO. In the future, his organizational structure will have to include "assistant detailed to watch cable and regional TV during a disaster" and more importantly "assistant detailed to follow Free Republic."
Thank you.
I'm guessing that a Fed official sending Fed aid to locations in a ruined city based on TELEVISION reporting is not good form.
Assuming that the officials have time to watch television, which I suspect they don't.
When the Fed is informed officially by the local govt, then they can respond.
When the Fed is not informed, they cannot repond.
Seems simple to me.