What I don\'t understand is why we seemed so unprepared for this. I know that anyone watching the weather for the week leading up to the Hurricane knew that it was going to hit and hit hard, yet we seemed completely shocked when it actually hit.
Seems like there is no communication between Washington, New Orleans/Mississippi and the relief effort.
I\'d say 2 pretty major reasons that this has gone from the worst storm to hit the US in decades to the most horrific disasters since 9/11:
1. Bush cut the SELA (Southeast Louisiana Urban Flood Control project) more than 80% over the last 2 years. This funding was used to sure up the continually sinking levee system in Louisiana. I wonder what he needed that money for?
The fact that Bush has the balls to go on TV yesterday and say that nobody expected the levee\'s to get breeched, when the mayor of NO has been screaming about it for the last 2 years is a bold faced lie.
2. The former director of FEMA is quoted in todays Times saying that the majority of funding that FEMA was receiving dried up in 2004... hmmm, I wonder what that money was used for?
After the Tsunami\'s in SE Asia, FEMA targeted NO as the #1 hot spot of US vulnerability to a natural disaster. They began to run exercises in how to deal with a large scale hurricaine hitting the gulf coast, but that ended when their budget dried.
You let an incompetent boob drive your car, don\'t be shocked when he wrecks it.
