🚀 go-pugleaf

wrcowan1@hal-pc.org wrote:

> alanswan wrote:
>
> > You don't seem to understand what your talking about,, Once Bush declared
> > the disaster area,, The aid and rescue efforts were supposed to start
> > automatically without a need for any request. That's the whole point of
> > making such a declaration, it is intended to cut through red tape and
> > eliminate the need for formal requests to be sent through government
> > channels in order to get the help where it is needed immediately.
> > Unfortunately, the person running FEMA was not aware of this small detail in
> > the operations procedures manual and instead sat waiting for a phone call
> > from someone asking for help.. LOL
> >
>
> The aid was there and offered but the State still retains control of the
> show unless it speciffically cedes the efforts to FEMA.  That is what
> has been done in years past.  That is why it has worked in the past.
>
> Remember that FEMA's role is after the disaster not usually before or
> during.  With a disater of such scale it takes time for FEMA to step in
> and help but the Govenor chose to not work with FEMA and instead hires
> her own relief director to do things.
>
> That is just a small fraction of what went wrong.  IT was not our
> Federal Government but the State and Local officials who screwed up.

Republican Senator Trent Lott of Mississippi said he
has been trying to get FEMA to send 20,000 trailers
"sitting in Atlanta" to the Mississippi coast, and he
urged President Bush during a meeting Monday
to intervene. He said FEMA has refused to ship the
trailers until contracts are secured.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/09/05/katrina.lott/