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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Thornir Alekeg" data-source="post: 2538214" data-attributes="member: 15651">I agree that the idea of being caught by surprise seems far-fetched, but I also know that many times the "scenarios" that are worked up for disasters do not properly take many factors into account.  I would venture a guess that their plans did not account for so much widespread devestation, the number of people who had not evacuated, that people would start shooting at rescuers.  This kind of planning is exactly like battle plans - the plans quickly become useless once the real situation is understood.  And as horrible as this sounds, 9-11 was a great tragedy that was over pretty quickly and was on a much smaller scale.  Most of the people caught up in 9-11 either escaped early on, or were killed.  You didn't have the city full of people trapped without food and water.  Yes, they were rushing to try and find survivors trapped in the wreckage, but all the rescue efforts were concentrated in one small area, not over an entire city, and an even wider region.  Last thing I believe is that I suspect there are a lot of good and heroic things happening along the Gulf Coast, but at the moment the media perfers reporting on the tragedy and negative events - they make for better ratings, and they are easier to locate.  The people doing heroic things are just out there continuing to work, not attracting media attention.</blockquote>