I said it before, but I despise Mike Easley, but I never once doubted a word he said last week during Opehlia.
He got the job done without so much as a whimper....or George W. Bush.
BTW, Ophelia was a TS not a Cat-5 hurricane.
I despise him too, and he did do a darn good job with Ophelia, butttttttt I heard on my local station at noon that folks (Salter Path) are plugging ahead on their own...haven't seen FEMA, piles of debris waiting to be picked up, nobody knows who's coming to get it or when. Not bitchin' mind you, in the least, from what I saw...just saying that's the state of affairs.
A Marine Mom I know in Tx, with a son (unavailable) in Combat Training here, spent two hours on the phone with Red Cross yesterday so that she could get an alternatate number to her son in case the power went out, spoke to a kajillion new volunteers who know nothing about how to contact the military.