You sound like the 'rats that were saying on Friday that it's been 6 days since the hurricane hit.
Go buy a calculator.
"You sound like the 'rats that were saying on Friday that it's been 6 days since the hurricane hit.
Go buy a calculator."
Actually I was more or less quoting the head of FEMA who raised the issue that they had three days warning.
The Hurricane was Monday. It wasn't really til this morning (Saturday) that large quantities of food and water arrived. That's five days plus three days notice. Again this matches what FEMA was saying this afternoon.
The President also said the results were not coming fast enough.
I don't know how much blame is gonna be divided although it's clear the mayor and the governor get lots of blame.
Clearly President Bush is something of a hero for pleading with the mayor to evacuate. A President shouldn't have to do that and he may have save 100,000 lives by putting his ego aside.
But just because the President personally was effective and smart doesn't mean the whole Federal mechanism moved fast enough. That's another issue. The Federal response in force was much slower than the hurricane effort in Florida and much slower than on 9/11.
You sound like the 'rats that were saying on Friday that it's been 6 days since the hurricane hit.
Not to mention that according to the plan, the local and state governemtns were supposed to set up the shelters and distribute relief supplies for the first 5 days while FEMA did evaluations for resupply and additional materials. ...or what happened to supplies that were put too far forward.