"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.
I totally agree with you. The relief effort on the part of the Feds was as timely as it was possible to be.
There was at least a 24 hour delay of moving PRE-PLACED material into NOLA, because of loss of civil order. At the same time Blanco was praising the relief efforts, her minions at the gate of NOLA were denying the Red Cross permission to enter, because of civil unrest in NOLA.
And this is a FEMA shortcoming?