Posted before, but once again:
Where was Clinton, Dewitt and FEMA in 1995? During the month of July heat wave of that year in Chicago, in spite of repeated warnings of the impending disaster, all of them stood by and let well over 1,000 (even higher if counting those who were admitted to hospitals and died later) poor, disabled and mostly Black elderly die alone and unaided in one week.
Why did Clinton, Dewitt's FEMA and Chicago Mayor Daley not follow their own heat disaster plan? Why did Clinton and FEMA down play the number of dead? Why were so many of the unclaimed dead stuffed into pine boxes and buried unceremoniously in mass graves? Why was this hushed up in the MSM after several independent studies and resulting reports laid the blame directly upon all of them.
Aftermath postmortem.
http://www.publicaffairs.noaa.gov/pr96/apr96/noaa96-21.html
Picture of mass grave from Slate. (Slate has pulled the original story I was linking to)
http://img.slate.msn.com/media/36/020730_MassGrave.jpg
The warnings:
http://www.emergency.com/heatwave.htm