"I take responsibility"

[jahcs]

...um, can everybody please take a deep breath and read each other's posts again and stop reading into each others posts? :(

QUOTE(Ghostiger @ Sep 16 2005, 09:10 PM)
A good deal of you seem to be ignoring the Governor response issues.
Im addressing many of the posters who are blaming Fema etc. I addressed the original post else where.
From what I gathered litening to the NBC news and even more from a Public Radio walk through of the eventes it seems like The Governor of Luisiana made 2 rather giant mistakes.

1 When other states offered their National Gaurds to be sent BEFORE the storm hit the Govoner told them to wait and didnt ask for them till several days after the Storm hit.

2 When the president offered to send in the regular Military and have the Feds take command of the disaster the Governor didnt want to cede control and told the Prsident to wait 24 hours while she made up her mind.
Im not saying at all that Fema didnt make a good deal of mistakes. But the Governor appears to have been over whelmed and her lack of leadership seems to be what delayed much of the help.

There is plenty of "blame" to go around. Are you implying that there is no responsibility to be shouldered on the part of FEMA?

They simply responded too slowly: Linky

"Half of Hurricane Katrina evacuees who were trapped in their houses by flood waters waited three or more days to be rescued, according to a survey of storm victims released on Friday.

Thirty-eight percent of the people who stayed behind despite orders to evacuate said they were either physically unable to leave or were caring for a disabled person."
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