[Frank_Discussion]

It's starting to sound ominously like the State/Local government drew up plans for such disaster, then simply filed them away without telling anybody else about them. ;(

[dfwgator]

It's starting to sound ominously like the State/Local government drew up plans for such disaster, then simply filed them away without telling anybody else about them. ;

And why not? They could just blame it on Bush.

[angkor]

It's starting to sound ominously like the State/Local government drew up plans for such disaster

They never resolved the issue of using school buses in hurricane evacs, despite at least a year of discussion with the City.

There are multiple FR threads documenting this.

[zeaal]

Local and state officials were required to file an emergency plan so that could get access to Federal $$$$s. But, it is apparent now that the only reason a plan was drawn up was to get the money and not to actually be used to safe lives and evacuate a city. GREED.