Originally posted by Phil Rohtla:
This a lack of foresight, pure and simple.


Putting your town's residents in the Superdome after the President pleaded for an evac is a lack of foresight, as is not using the city's 300+ buses to evac the poor and disabled.


The point is that three levels of government (local, state, federal) must come together to solve issues and by definition the LOCAL government is the MOST KNOWELEDGEABLE of issues effecting the area. It is the responsibility of the local government to know what is best for their city, not the state and certainly not the feds. Local officials should be THE experts on their city--that is what they are paid to do. FEMA deserves criticism for the timeliness of their response to be sure but to absolve the local government while blaming the feds for a lack of foresight is comical.

The mayor of NOLA should, at THIS moment, be like the citizens of his city--UNEMPLOYED.

-- 1999 SVT #220 -- In retrospect, it was all downhill from here. RIP, CEG.