On Aug 29, 2011, at 3:13 PM, Paul Stenquist wrote: > Well, we'll just have to disagree on this one. I believe it was indeed much > ado about very little.
I'm not surprised it seems this way. From what I saw it looked like they were expecting a lot worse than what actually happened. With Katrina in their minds they would not have wanted to screw this up as doing so would guarantee losing the next election. > The federal government declared New York a disaster area before it was a > disaster area I did wonder about that :) I wonder if it's a procedural thing as making declarations like that can free up certain sources of funding, give extra legal powers, allow civil defence / the armed forces / national guard to be mobilised, and all that sort of thing. Cheers, Dave -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
