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Originally Posted by stevo
The gov and mayor definately dropped the ball on this. their first priority should be to protect their citizens and they did NOTHING.
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Governor Blanco, on the day before Katrina hit, asked Bush to declare a national disaster, and requested federal assistance to "save lives", stating specifically that Louisiana did not have the manpower to deal with the likely impacts of the hurricane. This was on August 28. The letter that she sent him is on her website in PDF.
It wasn't until Thursday, September 1, that Washington finally completed the paperwork to send in the manpower that Blanco requested five days earlier. What I'd like to know is: why should it have taken 5 days? That doesn't make any sense to me.
While I agree that there were several balls dropped, by practically everybody including Bush, I don't agree that the gov and mayor did nothing.