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Subject: [Leica] Katrina
From: scott at adrenaline.com (Scott McLoughlin)
Date: Thu Sep 1 17:05:55 2005
References: <NIEELBCOAJKOKJFIGDGJKENCDOAA.tim@KairosPhoto.com> <D3C21748-2801-499C-ADFA-2CCFF627F2D1@earthlink.net>

I've done a little work with FEMA in the past.  From a governance POV,
insane foolishness to merge their activities with the HS folks.

feli wrote:

> I think I read that FEMA has lost a lot of control in the past few  
> years as power
> was consolidated within the new department of Homeland Security.
>
> feli
>
> On Sep 1, 2005, at 8:01 AM, Timothy Atherton wrote:
>
>> It does seem that for a country as developed as the US it's taking an
>> inordinate amount of time to move the required number of national  
>> guardsmen
>> to the area as well as for FEMA to organise medical teams etc (I  
>> hear on CNN
>> this am that medical teams area just now being assembled outside the
>> disaster area). Even aside from the massive loss of infrastructure,  
>> it seems
>> things just aren't in place to deal with such disasters.
>>
>> It must seem like an eternity for those still stuck in the  immediate 
>> area as
>> law and order breaks down and there is a lack of medical, food and  
>> water
>> resources etc.
>>
>> tim a
>>
>
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