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I'm sorry, I can't help it. I do think that all this should be put aside, for now, because people are dying. But people like me, I can't go down there and haul people out of buildings. So I get to sit here and obsess about things like this. And I have no memory, just like the nation as a whole, so I don't want to forget about this, later.
Memo to myself...
Someone at work, Friday, was telling me that FEMA couldn't go in to help in New Orleans until they were asked, and that when they were being yelled at about not helping, that was the first time they were asked. Let's do the Time Warp, way back to August 26th, when a headline on CNN.com read "Forecasters: Katrina to aim for Mississippi, Louisiana" A snippet from about halfway down the article: "In anticipation of a possible landfall, Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour and Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco declared states of emergency Friday."
Even better, FEMA doesn't actually have to wait to be asked, according to the National Response Plan (a Homeland Security public document dated December, 2004).
I never would have thought to track back on CNN if not for the coincidence of a chance comment by![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
norseblue (a resident of Gretna, a city which is so close to being a part of New Orleans as to be indistinguishable to me), and eor mentioning the Talking Points Memo site which yonmei had linked to.
Memo to myself...
Someone at work, Friday, was telling me that FEMA couldn't go in to help in New Orleans until they were asked, and that when they were being yelled at about not helping, that was the first time they were asked. Let's do the Time Warp, way back to August 26th, when a headline on CNN.com read "Forecasters: Katrina to aim for Mississippi, Louisiana" A snippet from about halfway down the article: "In anticipation of a possible landfall, Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour and Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco declared states of emergency Friday."
Even better, FEMA doesn't actually have to wait to be asked, according to the National Response Plan (a Homeland Security public document dated December, 2004).
I never would have thought to track back on CNN if not for the coincidence of a chance comment by
norseblue (a resident of Gretna, a city which is so close to being a part of New Orleans as to be indistinguishable to me), and eor mentioning the Talking Points Memo site which yonmei had linked to.