Reply #1: My neighbor across the street went with the state medical team

[Warpy]

and was stuck on the highway outside NO for five days, forbidden by FEMA to enter the city.

They had medicines, bandages, clean water, and helping hands and FEMA wouldn't allow them in.

Part of the problem was the new FEMA playbook that only dealt with an outbreak of contagious illness from a terrorist attack. Sealing the city might make sense, then. However, nobody on the ground seemed to be capable of making any decision at all outside that inappropriate plan, and people died as a result.

A fish rots from the head down. This is no clearer than in the agencies the GOP has traditionally used as dumping grounds for their least competent donors who feel entitled to patronage jobs. FEMA heads the list.