As for those "With no means" -- FEMA is not proactive?

[MsMagnificent]

So it's all good for those who can afford it -- but FEMA wouldn't help evacuate, before the hurricane hit, those who did not have the wherewithal to leave the city themselves? I mean, it was guaranteed that a VERY bad hurricane was going to hit one of the most easily-compromised, and crowded, and poor cities in the country if not the world...

This sounds pretty F'd up to me... isn't FEMA supposed to help ALL citizens? And help them even before the shit hits the proverbial fan?
"An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure" ya know -- or is that some Darwinist-like phrase?

Sounds exactly like the Flu-shot rationale: 'It's expensive, so if some people die, well then they die... but we save money.'

Profit$ are all, in this administration.
God help us.

[babylonsister]

1. FEMA wasn't active at all.

Bottom line, they were swallowed by Homeland Security, and lost their power.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

2. And not only that, what's left is run by an idiot shrub crony.

[dweller]

3. who can't read/understand an emergency weather forecast

Urgent Weather Message for Orleans, LA
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URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA
1011 AM CDT SUN AUG 28 2005


DEVASTATING DAMAGE EXPECTED

HURRICANE KATRINA
A MOST POWERFUL HURRICANE WITH UNPRECEDENTED
STRENGTH...RIVALING THE INTENSITY OF HURRICANE
CAMILLE OF 1969.

MOST OF THE AREA WILL BE UNINHABITABLE FOR
WEEKS...PERHAPS LONGER. AT
LEAST ONE HALF OF WELL CONSTRUCTED HOMES WILL HAVE
ROOF AND WALL
FAILURE. ALL GABLED ROOFS WILL FAIL...LEAVING THOSE
HOMES SEVERELY
DAMAGED OR DESTROYED.

THE MAJORITY OF INDUSTRIAL BUILDINGS WILL BECOME
NON FUNCTIONAL.
PARTIAL TO COMPLETE WALL AND ROOF FAILURE IS
EXPECTED. ALL WOOD
FRAMED LOW RISING APARTMENT BUILDINGS WILL BE
DESTROYED. CONCRETE
BLOCK LOW RISE APARTMENTS WILL SUSTAIN MAJOR
DAMAGE...INCLUDING SOME
WALL AND ROOF FAILURE.

HIGH RISE OFFICE AND APARTMENT BUILDINGS WILL SWAY
DANGEROUSLY...A
FEW TO THE POINT OF TOTAL COLLAPSE. ALL WINDOWS
WILL BLOW OUT.

AIRBORNE DEBRIS WILL BE WIDESPREAD...AND MAY
INCLUDE HEAVY ITEMS SUCH
AS HOUSEHOLD APPLIANCES AND EVEN LIGHT VEHICLES.
SPORT UTILITY
VEHICLES AND LIGHT TRUCKS WILL BE MOVED. THE BLOWN
DEBRIS WILL CREATE
ADDITIONAL DESTRUCTION. PERSONS...PETS...AND
LIVESTOCK EXPOSED TO THE
WINDS WILL FACE CERTAIN DEATH IF STRUCK.

POWER OUTAGES WILL LAST FOR WEEKS...AS MOST POWER
POLES WILL BE DOWN
AND TRANSFORMERS DESTROYED. WATER SHORTAGES WILL
MAKE HUMAN SUFFERING
INCREDIBLE BY MODERN STANDARDS.

THE VAST MAJORITY OF NATIVE TREES WILL BE SNAPPED
OR UPROOTED. ONLY
THE HEARTIEST WILL REMAIN STANDING...BUT BE TOTALLY
DEFOLIATED. FEW
CROPS WILL REMAIN. LIVESTOCK LEFT EXPOSED TO THE
WINDS WILL BE
KILLED.

AN INLAND HURRICANE WIND WARNING IS ISSUED WHEN
SUSTAINED WINDS NEAR
HURRICANE FORCE...OR FREQUENT GUSTS AT OR ABOVE
HURRICANE FORCE...ARE
CERTAIN WITHIN THE NEXT 12 TO 24 HOURS.

ONCE TROPICAL STORM AND HURRICANE FORCE WINDS
ONSET...DO NOT VENTURE
OUTSIDE!

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yeah, who could have known ... ?

dp

[MsMagnificent]

4. *chuckle* True...

...but I was asking rhetorically :D