Hurricane Katrina

I have been glued to the tv for the last week. It is horrible what those people had to endure. Yes, I agree that their disaster plan is broken. The head of FEMA in the area needs to be replaced. It is obvious by some of the stories of aid being turned away confirms that. I work in a technical field and I've had supervisors and managers that knew less than I did and we were limited by their ignorance. This is what happened here. His name is Michael Brown. He might have adequate in a smaller disaster, such as the damage caused by Katrina in Florida, but he did not have the character to step up and expand the mode of operation for this very worst disaster. FIRE MICHAEL BROWN of FEMA!
This is a quote from this idiot, "The director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency said Thursday those New Orleans residents who chose not to heed warnings to evacuate before Hurricane Katrina bear some responsibility for their fates." And I watched him trying to verbally dodge a reporter asking him about the thousands of people and lawlessness going on at the Convention Center, he finally admitted they hadn't even known about it until that day. The ignorance is revealing. Not acknowledging a circumstance, or worse, denying the severity does not make it go away. Just because the problems aren't in the disaster plan doesn't mean they don't exist. I know television blew a lot of things out of proportion but if they hadn't revealed so many of these evil situations would anything have been done, or how much longer would they have gone on before something would be done. Of course, there could be a philosophy that if you waited long enough, you would just have to clean up the dead bodies and you wouldn't have to worry about rescue.