NOTICE how this report "CONVENIENTLY" melds the STORM and the FLOOD together. Citing 36 hours after the storm hit rather than a WHOLE 12 hours after the FLOODING started??
This is SPIN and it is being reproted as FACT, typical of Knight Ridder and the rest of the LEFTIST MEDIA in this nation.
I noticed that too. Wasn't the early news out of N.O. that all was well since the storm was a 4 and the eye did not hit N.O. directly? Wasn't the reaction by all the talking heads a sigh of relief of N.O. missing the big one? So what would have been the reason for launching the response at that time and not after flooding started?
[WHOLE 12 hours after the FLOODING started??]
One of my brothers is a trucker. He and dozens of others were staged in Pensacola well before the storm hit. Their job? Hauling trailer loads of FEMA supplies into the disaster area. After hauling everything out of Pensacola they began hauling from an airbase in Meridian, MS.
How much more READY does one have to be?
Don't I remember Chertoff stating that there was a delay in notifying him about the flooding too?