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To: tejek who wrote (258473)	11/4/2005 9:49:12 PM
From: combjelly	Respond to of 1575181

"It amazes me that so many are still without power in TX, LA, MISS and FLA." Remember that FEMA coordinates on the regional level. Factor in that the only thing that has changed is Brownie getting moved out of the corner office. The results we are seeing. They've done their best to spin the fiction that their response to Rita was better than Katrina, but they haven't. Most everyone was able to evacuate, and they kept them out for weeks, so it wasn't immediately obvious that they were just as incompetent there. If you dug into the local newspapers from those areas, you saw a different story that the spin. Wilma was bad luck for them. Most people didn't evacuate, so the bumbling is obvious. The Department of Homeland Security and FEMA have been focussing on terrorist attacks like with 9/11. Those type of disasters are very localized, prompt response is required, but the situation is very different from the things that are most likely to happen like hurricanes and earthquakes. So they have taken apart a structure that could respond to what actually happens, to prepare for events that aren't very likely to happen. I guess that is the problem with being reality-based. I tend to like to prepare for things that actually are going to happen...