Quote: the point of this thread is to bash the mayor for supposedly going against FEMA when a hurricane threat is near. that's not case based on the information i've seen.
That's not the problem at all. FEMA and others in the federal government were pissed at Nagin about announcing people to return long before Rita was ever a threat.
The problem is that NO has no 911-service (it might get it in the next day or two), it has no fuel, it has no food, it has ONE fully-operating hospital, there's little power, emergency response services are virtually nil even if you could call them (which you can't), intersection lighting doesn't work, power-lines are down everywhere, the water isn't potable... Need I continue? You might as well be moving 3/4-million people right smack dab into the middle of a 500-square-mile septic tank.
Did you know that up to 75% of a hurricane's casualties occur during cleanup? People hurt themselves doing work, get dehydrated, get heatstroke, cut off limbs with chainsaws, catch nasty diseases, car accidents are rampant -- and you're going to have all that in a city with no immediate emergency response and one hospital? You've got to be [censored] insane.
Nagin himself is apparently entirely clueless about the state of his city and the extent of damages and the time it will take to repair. That's what the problem is. He's a [censored] moron.
