[Coop]

If you had been the FEMA director, would you have allowed your children, your grandchildren or your elderly grandparents to spend several days in a freeway exposed to 95-degree heat with no water and food?

If I were FEMA Director, I'd be working furiously with the officials who actually have jurisdiction over that debacle.

And just because folks suffered doesn't mean LEOs, volunteers and others weren't busting buns to try to help them. It's a frickin' natural disaster of epic proportions. Planning and coordination only go so far.

[george wythe]

If you had allowed your children, grandchildren or grandparents languish in a hot pavement for days, then you are a much different person than I am. The high-humidity 95-degree weather turns the pavement into a hot pan where you can fry an egg. That's no place for children, sick people or elderly folks.

I would have sent a few trucks with water and food right away, without waiting for any local official to give me permission.

I remember than during Andrew, several volunteers and church groups drove up with vans and pickup trucks full of water, food, clothing, and medicine before any FEMA help showed up. There is no need to ask permission to anyone.