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Can't help but be reminded of my visits, and the colour of the place. His language feels very much like New Orleans to me.
As for responsibility, it's everyone's. But disaster preparedness and recovery is very much a state/national responsibility. For every city to supply resources for all possible misfortunes on their own shoulders would be impossible and wasteful. Instead we pool resources and use where most needed.
Certainly, the mayor should ask for help but once larger entities are involved they should be calling the shots in response to needs.
This feels like the failing of a large bureaucracy (DHS) that's put all its time into theory, consideration, and self-justification and not enough into implementation.
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There are a vast number of people who are uninformed and heavily propagandized, but fundamentally decent. The propaganda that inundates them is effective when unchallenged, but much of it goes only skin deep. If they can be brought to raise questions and apply their decent instincts and basic intelligence, many people quickly escape the confines of the doctrinal system and are willing to do something to help others who are really suffering and oppressed." -Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, p. 195
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