No more excuses, please
The Post today:
While Chertoff said the levee breach that flooded New Orleans "exceeded the foresight of planners," Max Mayfield, director of the National Hurricane Center, said Brown and other top federal officials were briefed as much as 32 hours in advance of landfall that Hurricane Katrina's storm surge was likely to overtop levees and cause catastrophic flooding.
"They knew that this one was different," Mayfield said yesterday. "I don't think Mike Brown or anyone else in FEMA could have any reason to have any problem with our calls. . . . They were told. . . . We said the levees could be topped."
Remember what President Bush said:
I don't think anybody anticipated the breech of the levees.
Were they just not paying attention? Was no one passing information along? Either these guys are liars, or our government has massive communication problems. Either would be pretty bad in any situation; Katrina turned the administration's failures into a catastrophe.
While Chertoff said the levee breach that flooded New Orleans "exceeded the foresight of planners," Max Mayfield, director of the National Hurricane Center, said Brown and other top federal officials were briefed as much as 32 hours in advance of landfall that Hurricane Katrina's storm surge was likely to overtop levees and cause catastrophic flooding.
"They knew that this one was different," Mayfield said yesterday. "I don't think Mike Brown or anyone else in FEMA could have any reason to have any problem with our calls. . . . They were told. . . . We said the levees could be topped."
Remember what President Bush said:
I don't think anybody anticipated the breech of the levees.
Were they just not paying attention? Was no one passing information along? Either these guys are liars, or our government has massive communication problems. Either would be pretty bad in any situation; Katrina turned the administration's failures into a catastrophe.
posted by onlooker at 8:41 AM
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