Within days of Katrina's August 29, 2005 landfall, public debate arose
about the local, state and federal governments' role in the
preparations for and response to the storm. Criticism was prompted
largely by televised images of visibly shaken and frustrated political
leaders, and of residents who remained in New Orleans without water,
food or shelter, and the deaths of several citizens by thirst,
exhaustion, and violence days after the storm itself had passed. The
treatment of people who had evacuated to registered facilities such as
the Superdome was also criticised.

The government was accused of making things worse, instead of making
things better; perhaps even deliberately, by preventing help by others
while delaying its own response. Subsequently, criticism from
politicians, activists, pundits and journalists of all stripes has
been directed at the local, state and federal governments.

New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin was also criticized for failing to
implement his evacuation plan and for ordering residents to a shelter
of last resort without any provisions for food, water, security, or
sanitary conditions. Perhaps the most important criticism of Nagin is
that he delayed his emergency evacuation order until less than a day
before landfall, which led to hundreds of deaths of people who (by
that time) could not find any way out of the city.[2]

The devastation wrought by failure of the Federal flood protection has
raised other, more general public policy issues about emergency
management, environmental policy, poverty, and unemployment. The
discussion of both the immediate response and of the broader public
policy issues may affect elections and legislation enacted at various
levels of government.


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On May 16, 8:02*pm, "sweet&soft" wrote:
Within days of Katrina's August 29, 2005 landfall, public debate arose
about the local, state and federal governments' role in the
preparations for and response to the storm. Criticism was prompted
largely by televised images of visibly shaken and frustrated political
leaders, and of residents who remained in New Orleans without water,
food or shelter, and the deaths of several citizens by thirst,
exhaustion, and violence days after the storm itself had passed. The
treatment of people who had evacuated to registered facilities such as
the Superdome was also criticised.

The government was accused of making things worse, instead of making
things better; perhaps even deliberately, by preventing help by others
while delaying its own response. Subsequently, criticism from
politicians, activists, pundits and journalists of all stripes has
been directed at the local, state and federal governments.

New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin was also criticized for failing to
implement his evacuation plan and for ordering residents to a shelter
of last resort without any provisions for food, water, security, or
sanitary conditions. Perhaps the most important criticism of Nagin is
that he delayed his emergency evacuation order until less than a day
before landfall, which led to hundreds of deaths of people who (by
that time) could not find any way out of the city.[2]

The devastation wrought by failure of the Federal flood protection has
raised other, more general public policy issues about emergency
management, environmental policy, poverty, and unemployment. The
discussion of both the immediate response and of the broader public
policy issues may affect elections and legislation enacted at various
levels of government.

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