All good questions, Jake, and I'm sure someone in one of the many hearings on what went wrong will ask those very same ones. I think it's too soon to tell what went wrong and what went right. One of the questions I want answered is, "If you are governor of a state that has a major hurricane bearing down on it and you have been told as long ago as 2001 that your state is in the top 3 of potential disasters in the country if a major hurricane hits WHY DON'T YOU SCREAM FOR FEDERAL ASSISTANCE THE SECOND JIM CANTORO BOOKS HIS AIRPLANE TICKET? That means declaring state of emergency, calling out the National Guards (they should be called Louisiana State Guards by the way), pulling out of storage all the water and food kits you should have stockpiled and shipping them to the Superdome if that was in your survival plan etc. etc. etc.
It is in The Governor's Handbook 101, page 1 that the governor of a state controls everything in an emergency. We have that all the time up here in the frozen north when a blizzard or ice storm is coming. They have plans in place to handle everything. I see no evidence they had a plan for anything related to the potential disaster they have been lving with. Wait until the lawyers get a hold of this one!!!!! "Have you been injured in the Hurricane? Call the law offices of ......"
Also where was the media on this one? Why weren't they screaming from 2001 on that this was a disaster waiting to happen? Maybe they were there and we just didn't hear them? Plenty of questions but it won't be for quite some time before we get answers...