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<blockquote data-quote="ok2bclever" data-source="post: 48049">I certainly don&#039;t believe the local government did all that it could have, should have by any means, but the national government in the form of FEMA failed in it&#039;s primary duties to the nation in regards to New Orleans and needs to be held accountable so this does not happen next time and between terrorists and the likelihood that global warming is just going to continue to accelerate the possibility of more frequent and more powerful storms such as Katrina and the aforementioned major earthquake possibities of the San Andreas fault on the west coast, there will be a next time.FEMA was obviously not ready and apparently never anticipated the studied, predicted levee failures which is the true source and difference between the far more fatal conditions in New Orleans compared to the referenced harder wind hit state of Mississippi and what that would do to the known remaining citizens and stranded tourists in New Orleans that were stranded in the designated shelters such as the Superdome and the Convention Center (that Brownie apparently was unaware of), hospitals, nursing homes, etc.There were idiots that wouldn&#039;t leave (there still are a bunch of those and that just seems like evolution in action to me as they die), but that shouldn&#039;t be used as a smoke screen for the fact that there were thousands upon thousands that couldn&#039;t leave because the evacuation plans were never made functional for them, such as that infamous parking lot of submerged buses.PS- What&#039;s this &quot;we were all wrong&quot; tie?And I quote &quot;If you discount the native Americans in the area&quot;.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ok2bclever, post: 48049"] I certainly don't believe the local government did all that it could have, should have by any means, but the national government in the form of FEMA failed in it's primary duties to the nation in regards to New Orleans and needs to be held accountable so this does not happen next time and between terrorists and the likelihood that global warming is just going to continue to accelerate the possibility of more frequent and more powerful storms such as Katrina and the aforementioned major earthquake possibities of the San Andreas fault on the west coast, there will be a next time. FEMA was obviously not ready and apparently never anticipated the [B]studied, predicted levee failures[/B] which is the true source and difference between the far more fatal conditions in New Orleans compared to the referenced harder wind hit state of Mississippi and what that would do to the known remaining citizens and stranded tourists in New Orleans that were stranded in the designated shelters such as the Superdome and the Convention Center (that Brownie apparently was unaware of), hospitals, nursing homes, etc. There were idiots that wouldn't leave (there still are a bunch of those and that just seems like evolution in action to me as they die), but that shouldn't be used as a smoke screen for the fact that there were thousands upon thousands that couldn't leave because the evacuation plans were never made functional for them, such as that infamous parking lot of submerged buses. PS- What's this "we were all wrong" tie? And I quote "If you discount the native Americans in the area". [/QUOTE]

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