Friday, September 09, 2005

What Went Wrong

Okay, now comes the bitching.
I don't want to do some shrill thing about New Orleans. But, I do want to go over what went wrong.

The first thing that went wrong in New Orleans:
* Funding

"Just last year, FEMA hired a private company, IEM Inc. of Baton Rouge, to help conduct an eight-day drill for a fictional Category 5 hurricane in New Orleans named Pam. It included staging a helicopter evacuation of the Superdome, a prediction of 15 feet of water in parts of the city and the evacuation of 1-million people.
But the second part of the company's work - to design a plan to fix unresolved problems, such as evacuating sick and injured people and housing thousands of stranded residents - never occurred because the funding was cut."

Did the government cut funding for the war in Iraq? I can't tell. But, someone is going to have to answer that question at some point.

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