09-15-2005, 05:06 PM
Occhidiangela,Sep 15 2005, 05:39 PM Wrote:Walk, you are on solid ground if you remain focused on "is this all empty talk?" Your attempt to assert a profound neglect of disaster prep at the Federal level since 9-11 is
PURE BS!
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Thanks, Occhi. I'm probably letting this get to me far too much. (Belive it or not, despite all this talk about bush, it's Kofi who really gets under my skin).
Talking more focused, I remember *someone* (can't quite put the finger on who) who said that comparing the response of NY during September 11th and the NO one during Katrina wasn't quite the same, since NY had, at the time, a "small army" of firefighters and policemen trained and used to respond to crisis situations. Could it be that in the other hurricanes in Florida the local response was good enough to cover for the FEMA? In NO the local response was almost wiped out.