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To: one_less who wrote (477866)	5/5/2009 12:00:05 PM
From: i-node	1 Recommendation Respond to of 1574852

It was a secondary effect of the massive water down pour not the force of the hurricane This is the key point. It wasn't the hurricane that caused the problem. The hurricane damage was far worse from Slidell to Biloxi than it was in NOLA. A flood is a different thing from a hurricane. There was no access into the city -- at least not something suitable for supplies to get in. It was totally closed off from the East and from the Causeway. Parts of I10 were underwater into downtown making it impassable. Why was it not Nagin's responsibility to be sure there were adequate supplies, facilities, and water at the Convention Center and Superdome? Everyone knew these were the highest ground. Bush is a scapegoat for incompetent city management which DID NOT EVEN HAVE any disaster plan. It was so insubstantial that the first thing Nagin did after the storm was to have the disaster plan removed from the website so as to ameliorate the blame for not having a plan. WE also forget that the federal government had every helicopter available rescuing people from rooftops -- where Nagin had claimed 10,000 people were dying. This successful rescues of thousands is all but overlooked by those claiming the federal government was MIA. Who was MIA? The NOLA police department. Over half deserted, some stealing new Cadillacs from Sewell Village in the process.