In a New York Times article Michael "Heck of a job Brownie" Brown talks about how he couldn't get a "unified command established" after Katrina hit. He blames the Mayor of New Orleans and the Governor of Louisiana for his failings of course. Interesting to me is this, within all his blaming others he mentions that out of the 2600 FEMA employees he sent "10 to 20" officials to the area before the storm hit. As I pointed out in the previous post, they sent around 500 people here for Ophelia and thats just employees, you should have seen their big-ass U.N-colored vehicles with satellite dishes on them, not to mention the line of semis full of water on the Virginia border waiting to come in to the rescue. So um... listen Brownie, where was all that shit during Katrina and why are 500 of 2600 people in N.C. while there is still such a huge amount of work to be done on the Gulf Coast?
That is a heck of a job Brownie. By the way, here is my favorite part of the piece:
"Until you have been there," he said, "you don't realize it is the middle of a hurricane."