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Originally Posted by Poppinjay
Uh, an evacuation was ordered. There were no means to evacuate those without transportation. Handling large scale problems like that IS FEMA's mission. And then getting in quickly after the disaster is also their mission. The fact is, he was a no information getting chowder head. He claimed that he wasn't being informed by the folks in NOLA about the goings on at the Superdome and civic center. Well, duh, no phone service, no cell service, no communication. TV and radio had that news, but Brown ignored it because it didn't follow gov't regs for official communication.
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FEMA's mission is to handle emergencies after a federal emergency has been declared. But in this case, the governor (or whoever is supposed to) declared it too late. Yeah, an evacuation was declared but when? Few days before? How are you gonna evacuate a city of millions within a few days? Especially when you knew you were in a hurricane area (Note, I said area, not path). Preparation would've been great but nobody bothered to prepare for anything, especially for the unpredicable. Hurricanes aren't predictable as history has repeatly shown.
The reason why TV and radios don't follow government regulations for "official communications" is that they tend to get blown out of porporation. For example, there was reports all over the news that hundreds of bodies were lying around in the superdome and other centers when it turns out that there was actually a tenth of that number.