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Originally Posted by gtahvit
Katrina was a true disaster. I'm sure a lot of us know people that were devastated by it. But the FEMA failure is two sided. People took advantage of FEMA as much as FEMA blew it. For me the frustrating part is how we expect gov. to come in with a magic paint brush and wipe away a Cat 3 Hurricane that hit a city which resides below sea level. It's like we expect the restoration process to run without a hitch. And things to be back to normal in a matter of months.... Try Decades... Lets use the Tsunami that hit Asia a few years earlier. They are still no where near to getting back to where they were before the Tsunami. Yet N.O. is salvageable and largely back on track. Is it completely restored? No. Will it be yes. Would any other organization in the entire world be able to restore N.O. faster or better than our country can? No. These are huge problems that McGyver can't fix with a roll of duct tape, some alligator scales and chewing gum. Big problems cost big bucks and need big time and will have big shortfalls. Why do we have such unattainable standards? It's called a disaster for a reason.
Are we so arrogant to expect our leaders (all of them) to be absolutely perfect. We need to be a bit more realistic about what it takes to fix huge problems like this.
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I couldn't have said it better,
Catiajockey: do you have a blown up version of that sig??