Comments by "Hobbs" (@hobbso8508) on "Biden To Visit FEMA Headquarters Ahead Of Hurricane Season" video.
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@Garapetsa No, you said worst because you're pushing a bias narrative. The fallout from Katrina took years to get over, and FEMA failed the area dramatically as a result. For example:
After levees failed across New Orleans and water poured into the streets, disarray marked the response. With faint understanding of the city's topography, Brown and FEMA's top brass weren't aware of the magnitude of the flood. They dismissed reports from Marty Bahamonde, FEMA's only staffer on the ground, that the 17th Street Canal wall had broken and later that 80 percent of New Orleans was underwater. Brown told CNN that FEMA didn't know for three days that hundreds of people were trapped at the Convention Center with no food or water.
After rescues were well underway, FEMA turned away offers of personnel and supplies from the Department of Interior and denied a request from the state Wildlife & Fisheries agency for 300 rubber boats. It was slow to provide food, shelter, and supplies to first responders and stranded residents alike. Its leaders bickered with Gov. Kathleen Blanco and New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin over who was in charge.
And when the response switched to recovery, there were the infamous FEMA trailers, those glorified recreation vans, hastily built and steeped in toxic resins, that populated yards and vacant lots for years after the storm.
They were only supposed to be in place for up to 18 months. The last one purportedly left New Orleans in February 2012, more than six years into the recovery. By then it was the wrong kind of icon: a symbol of FEMA's grinding, inept bureaucracy.
Comparing the current series of flash floods to KATRINA is just a joke. Doing so because the price of flood insurance has increased, which is obviously should have given the frequency and intensity of flooding in the region, is unbelievably idiotic at best, horrendously insensitive at worst.
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