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Check out this interview that WWL did with Mayor Nagin yesterday which is AMAZING:
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Bravo! You simply cannot fake the outrage and exasperation with which he speaks. He is directly reflecting the pain of the people he represents, and the helpless situation he finds himself in without any coordination at the federal level.
As to Dan's question about why he can't simply call up Greyhound.. Imagine if he and the mayors of Biloxi, Gulfport, and dozens of other little towns are all calling Greyhound asking for buses. That's already happened with the evacuation to the Astrodome. However, to get more, the feds have to get involved, because every other mayor and state rep is calling Greyhound up asking for those same buses. In a disaster that affects several states and hundreds of municipalities, you simply can't have every mayor and councilman taking what they can get their hands on. You need coordination, which is what FEMA's job is (or was.)
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