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To: tonto who wrote (66278)	9/2/2005 3:54:50 PM
From: Orcastraiter	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 81568

Disaster response and readiness is also part of FEMA's responsibility. The governor and the mayor were asking for federal help and their requests fell on deaf ears. Orca

To: tonto who wrote (66278)	9/2/2005 4:25:01 PM
From: Orcastraiter	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

Some lapses may have occurred because of budget cuts. For example, Mr. Tolbert, the former FEMA official, said that "funding dried up" for follow-up to the 2004 Hurricane Pam exercise, cutting off work on plans to shelter thousands of survivors. Brian Wolshon, an engineering professor at Louisiana State University who served as a consultant on the state's evacuation plan, said little attention was paid to moving out New Orleans's "low-mobility" population - the elderly, the infirm and the poor without cars or other means of fleeing the city, about 100,000 people. At disaster planning meetings, he said, "the answer was often silence." nytimes.com Orca