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Originally Posted by Happy Monkey
It wasn't great for the Indonesian Tsunami, and it's worse for an event within our borders for which we had warning, and which had already been declared a national emergency.
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It was still up to the Governor of the State of Louisiana to ask for the help from FEMA.
They can't just go in, disaster declaration or not.
The declaration frees the resources ... when they are requested. Although we function as one country, each US state is actually it's own little independent entity. We often forget that.