Under DHS guidelines, you should have 5 days worth of food and water.

[Walt Starr]

Today is day five.

Any deaths from dehydration or starvation from this point forward are directly attributable to the ineptitude of the following:

1) Michael "FEMA Fred" Brown, head of FEMA

2) Michael Chertoff, Secretary of Homeland Security

3) Dick Cheney, head of the Office of National Preparedness

4) George W. Bush, Chief Executive OFficer and where the buck stops.

[WestHoustonDem]

1. That assumes your house remains intact.

Responsibility for the deaths began the minute the the levee broke, if not before.

[Walt Starr]

2. True enough

but this proves beyond a reasonable doubt, DHS has no fucking clue what they are talking about.

[paula777]

5. I think the fact that they cut funding to make the levee stronger is when

it really began. Had they not done that, this might never would have happened

[phantom power]

3. And how many people actually have that?

Darn few, I'd guess. Especially water. Any city is at most three days from anarchy, if you turn off the basic services. That's old news.

That 3-day clock started ticking on Monday morning, and they should have damn well known it.

[smurfygirl]

4. what if your house washes away or is under water

what then? what do you do?