I'd be intereste din how many of the poll respondents have been through a major hurricane and seen the roads, experienced the lack of communications and the lack of power afterwards.
One of the problems with Katrina was that at first no one knew how bad things were and once they did, there was no real way to get to the affected areas except by chopper.
Fifty Billion Dollars in aid is a very good response in my book.
I read that a convoy of NG coming down from Meridian had to get out and chop their way through the downed trees. Took a long time to get to the coast. TV hasn't made people aware that there was severe damage for many, many miles inland, some throughout the whole state.