[Norman Bates]

Louisiana in particular suffered devastating damage beyond the capacity of a state and/or local government to provide all the necessary action. The fact is MS is still rebuilding to this day.

[benjamin032]

I don’t doubt that they are, or that the states were woefully unprepared. I do doubt that the Fed, under any administration, would be better able to help.

[mrsmel]

Louisiana got flooded, but for the most part the infrastructure was left standing. The Mississippi Coast for miles and mile looked like ground zero, washed clean except for debris. No comparison.

Haley Barbour has done an excellent job with recovery in Mississippi, without the grandstanding and finger-pointing and snarls of red tape and bureaucracy that have occurred in Louisiana, and having to deal with a much worse situation in material damage. He did of course have an advantage people-wise.