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To: Lane3 who wrote (120)	9/14/2005 10:13:27 AM
From: Mary Cluney	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2253

No question about it. But the deferral to the state by the state, as called for by the existing protocols, was not one of the screw-ups. Following protocols cannot legitimately be construed as a NO screw-up. Maybe it's better to change the federalism paradigm for hurricanes going forward, but that's a bigger question and a separate question from the sorry NO plan or the sorry NO execution. The sorry plan and the sorry execution--those were screw-ups. These category three syllogisms are way beyond me. What I understand is this: IMO state and local officials in the NO region did what could most likely be expected of them. If there plans and personnel were evaluated before hand, my guess is that they would have fallen within the middle ranges of the bell curve. Blaming or excusing the federal paradigm is laughable.