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Message: <blockquote data-quote="was" data-source="post: 2538917" data-attributes="member: 24488">-I just saw a report of the mayor of New Orleans screaming about the lack of aid and effort from federal sources.  He claimed that they were incompetent and stitting on their behinds (I cleaned up the language)-What I want to know is, who was coordinating the town's emergency resources?  Towns, especially larger cities, are supposed to have emergency plans for things like this.  From what I understand, the floodwaters originate from Lake Ponchartrain (spelling?).  The dikes were built to stop the seasonal flooding from this lake.  It only seems like they should have had some sort of emergency plan for flooding already layed out. -I wonder whether this ex-cable television executive is just inexperienced due to it being his first term, or whether he's looking to shift the blame for an inadequate response.  From what I understand, it was not the federal government who sent people to an inadequately supplied Superdome and it was not the federal government directing them to busing stations with no buses."# CNN Producer Kim Segal: It was chaos. There was nobody there, nobody in charge. And there was nobody giving even water. The children, you should see them, they're all just in tears. There are sick people. We saw... people who are dying in front of you.""# Evacuee Raymond Cooper: Sir, you've got about 3,000 people here in this -- in the Convention Center right now. They're hungry. Don't have any food. We were told two-and-a-half days ago to make our way to the Superdome or the Convention Center by our mayor. And which when we got here, was no one to tell us what to do, no one to direct us, no authority figure.</blockquote>

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