Saturday, September 03, 2005

I Love It When A Plan Comes Together

Last year, to assist with catastrophic disaster planning, FEMA Director Michael Brown whipped up a hypothetical "Hurricane Pam" to hit New Orleans:

Participants drew up action plans for dealing with the storm's aftermath in which calls for evacuation were partially heeded, water pumps were overwhelmed, corpses floated in the streets and as many as 60,000 people died -- mostly by drowning. [snip]

"Hurricane Katrina caused the same kind of damage that we anticipated," Brown said Wednesday. "So we planned for it two years ago. Last year, we exercised it. And unfortunately this year, we're implementing it."

This has been my fear all along. This is the plan. We are witnessing the plan in action.

(via The Corner)

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