Was FEMA response during Katrina worse or better than Helene?

Oh hell.
This thread will be fun

Worse.

Next question.

Not sure how anyone could really say unless they were in the shite for both. And I’d be surprised if that person posts here.

Who is going to get the Kanye role for Helene? Kid Rock?

At no time did Bush withhold funds or operations except when expressly forbid by the governor and Mayor of New Orleans. They played politics to create the shitshow. Now, I can’t stand any of the Bush’s because they were likely in on the whole operation, but none of the states resisted help this disaster.

I think in terms of damage, we will need to still find bodies before trying to figure how it compares.

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Interested in the OTs opinion here.
Katrina was during a time with no social media and news outlets & written media were king.
The narrative was way easier to set.

With Helene you see reports of poor FEMA response and crazy on site stories. But with this storm we have the opposite situation. Social media brings so much information that it’s hard to believe anything at face value anymore.

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Man, there were all kinds of crazy, whacked out frickin' stories that came from Katrina's aftermath. And maybe you don't know this but we did have the internet back then with Facebook and MySpace and whatever else.

There are still people who believe SEAL teams were killing looters and that sharks were swimming along Canal St.

The streets of N.O. were flooded for weeks after Katrina.

Worse ....ask all the realtives of the dead and raped people who were in the Convention Center with no food water ot insulin 2 and 3 days out....how about read the book 3 days in Memorial. That hospital was hell on Earth and forgotten by FEMA and all authorities...
Worse..much worse...

Katrina = inception of the “Cajun navy”
Helene= inception of the “ pony express” ( mules and goats)

The Gov matters the most. For Katrina, Gov Blanco was in over her head.