[PhatHead]

What has bothered me most throughout the past few weeks is that it has become so universally accepted that there was something slow about the "response" to Katrina. I reject the premise. This thread is my attempt to document one narrow part of what I mean:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1484035/posts

Outside of the sort of anecdotal accounts of SNAFUs and true tragedies - which cannot possibly be prevented in a disaster of this scale - I simply have not heard exactly what should have happened, or been delivered, that was not.

[Cboldt]

That is an awesome thread you put together.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1484035/posts

I see a flaw in FEMA-encouraged planning, where the plan does not account for simultaneous natural disaster and loss of civil order. But the locals know how volatile the local population is or isn't, and should provide resources to contain thugs, or if they can't, enlist the public for assistance.

I see lots of flaws in execution, most of them being local in blame. Lose communication infrastructure in a foreseeable event? Whoa.

FEMA holding firefighters in Atlanta for sensitivity training? Bureacracy in inaction.

Decision to withhold food and water from the Dome and Convetntion Center because the bias is to get people to exit? Bizzare logic (by Louisiana authorities).

I still bottom out on being annoyed at government over-promising, and using the ove-promise as justification for over-control and over-tax. That strategy makes for a weak society.