You are so correct SC. This effort, as you have said, lacks the leadership qualities that a disaster of this magnitude really needs. It seems to me that whenever I see a Rescue worker, a red cross volunteer, a law enforcement figure, or a political leader in that area being interviewed, they lack direction and seem confused. No one seems to know what procedures should be taken and how certain situations that are arising should be addressed. What this effort lacks is a the take charge abilities of a Rudy Giuliani and a Bernie Kerik.

It boggles my mind that in this day and age, with technology and satellites that can zero in and track a friggin ant in a desert taking a shit, that we are not able to use that technology to see 1000's of people stranded on the side of a highway waiting for direction and help!

And you are also right when you say heads will roll over this. Without getting political here is no question in my mind that many people in powere here really dropped the ball. While no one can fault a human for a natural disaster like this, there was plenty of time to prepare for this. It was not like this Hurricane snuck up and blindsided this state. They tracked this thing for about 10 days, and knew the impact that it could strike with. While I realize that 20/20 is hindsight, common sense should have been used here and was not. The governer of the state did not seem to wake up until the 10th hour. A mandatory evacuation should have been called several days before this thing struck, not at the 11th hour. There are procedures and steps that need to be taken by a governer to declare a state of emergency. And it's starting to come out that many steps in that procedure were not taken until it was almost too late. Couple that with the stories of how the levees and pumping systems were not maintained and like you said, heads are going to roll.

Someone needs to go in there and take charge.

This is a damn shame. It's sickening.


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