WTF FEMA?

Yeah, yeah, yeah I know everyone who knows how to type is blogging about the Mississippi and New Orleans. It's a damned travesty and made worse by the fact the Feds couldn't get their poop in a group and get the damn thing handled.

It's pretty pathetic when the Salvation Army and Red Cross have been running ads featuring hurricane footage of their organizations helping just as FEMA gets its shit together and starting to drop in water and food. Is this more proof some fuckers need to be fired and let this kind of stuff be handled by private organizations? It's sad. People are dying. Chaos, water and dead bodies of drowning and shooting victims fill the streets. And on TV politicians are grandstanding and governmental entities are pointing fingers at each other.

FEMA should have at the very least watching the weather channel and preparing for aid to arrive as soon as the all-clear hit. They shouldn't have waited for governors and mayors to ask for it. They should been off their asses and ready.

Local governments should have been more aggressive about getting people cleared out. I know in the rural areas of Mississippi and Louisianna clearing everyone out would have been damn near impossible, but in the larger cities there should have been a plan. It was a fucking cat 5 hurricane! I know these people have rode out many a nasty storm, but haven't they seen the pictures of Gavelston from 100 years ago? What about hurricane Andrew? Didn't anyone think that a city that sits under sea level might have a few problems when a storm of this magnitude hit?

I know it's easy to Monday morning QB from the NW when your friends and family were nowhere near the storm. But as a nation we need to look at how we're going to deal with these issues. Hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes and fires happen all the time. We need to realize the failings at the local and federal level and fix them. At the very least, shit can those who were asleep at the wheel. This kind of bullshit is unacceptable. This isn't a third world nation, regardless of what the news footage shows.