Just to get you in the mood for Bush's "mea culpa" speech at 9 pm, Ted Koppel is currently doing a one hour retrospective of the hurricane aftermath. His hour-by-hour, day-by-day detailing of this debacle is even more upsetting than I expected. For example, the mayor himself went to a command post in a hotel near the Superdome, but his *entire* staff had only *ONE* laptop to share. It was wireless at least, but when whatever access point it was using failed, the mayor was effectively blind and deaf. His director of IT for the city ended up finding one Internet enabled line somewhere in the facility, and then had to find a looted Home Depot, where he scrounged some networking equipment and managed to "McGyver" (his words) together a functioning Internet connection. The first levee breach was reported at 8:14 am on Monday--by the National Weather Service. The police, the mayor, FEMA, Homeland Security--none of them knew the levee had breached for over a day. By that time the small gap had grown to over 200 feet and the nightmare was on. At the *same* moment, the deputy FEMA director was on TV saying "New Orleans is not filling up with water like a bowl. The vast majority of the city is fine". The governor, at his side, nodded agreement.
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