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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Where was anyone's plan to confront this? I've read that FEMA identified three situations as the biggest threats to the U.S.: a terrorist attack on New York City, an earthquake in San Francisco, and a hurricane hitting New Orleans. I've also read that when planners got together to plan for the latter, someone would bring up the question of what to do about the people who did not self-evacuate, and there'd be a lot of dumb stares. No one had a plan.

So there was a huge failure here, by a variety of people. This includes the DHS and FEMA, whose mission statements suggest that preparing for events like this is their job. If this is how they've been doing their jobs, those of us in NYC and SF have a lot to worry about. (Would you trust your average big-city mayor to plan for one of these disasters?)

Are you kidding. The city and state had massive plans to address the contingency and followed none of them. The plans included using the buses to evacuate people? Where were the buses? Why didn't Nagin use them? Why? WHY?!!?!!??