I don't know if you saw it...but this morning there was an Admiral speaking on Fox about the PRE hurricane planning and activity that went on...
He was talking about positioning troops and gathering food and water...etc..and that they were doing this on Friday and Saturday before the hurricane.
His timeline was very succinct and beleivable, which kind of puts a lie to ALL of the people that are accusing Bush of being "too slow" and not doing anything before WED or THURS afterwards!
"too slow," I keep hearing that phrase and it just is really starting to bug me real bad. Every personal disaster plan I've ever read state one should be prepared for a minimum of 3 days on your own, before any outside help arrives. With the 24/7 news coverage it seems like this had gone on much longer than that, but really the Hurrican hit Monday, crews couldn't get out yet Monday evening to begin assessing damage appropriately...so T,W,Th right? And things started to really move and happen Thursday into Friday. Even if one considers the levee breaks in NO could delay efforts by 24 hours.