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a country with America's resources should not be in this much disarray in responding to it.


Exactly. Especially to something where we knew 24 hours ahead of time that this is one of the worst hurricanes to hit the US ever. I guess people just expected it to magically disappear once it hit land, and do no damage. To have such a sloppy response when we knew it was coming just seems odd.

Even if it had somehow turned at the last minute and spared New Orleans the brunt of the storm, it was still very possible to foresee massive humanitarian needs somewhere along that coast line.