FEMA "underestimated..."

"underestimated..." what a friggin' euphemistic word to use to describe the criminal delay and the even more criminal lack of leadership that characterized the initial days of the federal effort to respond to katrina... if this was back in the "lord of the manor" days, the peasants would have already stormed the castle with rakes and hoes and tossed the bastard out on his ass...

FEMA appears to have underestimated the storm, despite an extraordinary warning from the National Hurricane Center that it could cause "human suffering incredible by modern standards." The agency dispatched only 7 of its 28 urban search and rescue teams to the area before the storm hit and sent no workers at all into New Orleans until after the hurricane passed on Monday, Aug. 29.

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