Coordinating posture? Then you will have problems with state and federal jurisdiction. That's why FEMA needs to give guidance what to do before disaster strikes. The city of New Orleans and Louisana did have a emergency plan. Why didn't the mayor have those school buses up in running to evacuate his people.
I think the Governor didn't want to give up her power to the federal government. She didn't want to pass the Baton to Bush. It was a partisan power struggle. This slowed down aid I believe. The Federal government were waiting in the wings ready to go but couldn't go. When the military came to evacuated the people from the Super Dome Saturday morning and moved 150,000 people within eleven hours...things got moving for the better.
Why did Bush called the governor Friday August 27 to federalized her state? The Governor didn't want martial law in her state at this time.
Why did Bush called Sunday Aug 28 for mandatory evacuation? You live in a Hurricane zone. You think the mayor and governor would know better. Are they that inept? There's only a few highways out of New Orleans and many New Orleaners don't own cars to get out of the city.
Why did the Governor put the state under marshall law on Sept 1, 2005?
Or is it the lay of the land? They physically could not get the populace out. Once your flooded your stranded.
From Public Radio 2002
"Well, Hurricane Georges was one for which the track had the potential of flooding the city. So the people were given a mandatory order to evacuate the city," says Suhayda.
Government officials have begun to plan for evacuation. Photo: William Brangham/NOW with Bill Moyers
And government officials had made elaborate plans so the population could evacuate smoothly. We keep passing blue street signs marked Hurricane Evacuation Route. The government had organized fleets of busses, to rescue tens-of-thousands of people who didn't have cars. At the last minute, Hurricane Georges faded to a weaker storm and it veered away, which was lucky. Because the evacuation was a fiasco....."
http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/wetlands/hurricane3.html