Finding the Devil in New Orleans

[Hobbs]

Originally Posted by tw

FEMA knew that 100,000 people in New Orleans had no means of getting out of town .... and FEMA did nothing.

It's FEMAs job to forcast things like this, that's their job, the reason why they exist. However, I don't think that anyone predicted this could be as bad as it is. I think everyone is overwelmed right now. No one knows where to go or who to help first. There are so many fronts to attack, rescue, law enforcement, evacuation, recovery. Someone once told me that in planning for emergency responses for things such as this, that organizations such as the city, county, and/or FEMA puts into place what's called a resonable or acceptable amount of loss. What I think this means is they know they can't save everyone or handle every situation so they concentrate the resources they have into certain areas to be better effective as opposed to spreading the resource thin and not being effective anywhere. I haven't been able to confirm this becuase I heard this second hand a while ago.