BN>  MS>     Shadow government?  I don't see FEMA as capable of handling
BN>  MS> hurricane problems on small islands after that incident!
BN> 
BN> Again you are not getting it. FEMA does not do the direct care
BN> and damage control. They are the facilation agency. they pull all
BN> the police, fire, and relief agencies together 
    FEMA wasn't even successful at _that_ during and after Fran (or the 
hurricane in the Virgin Islands).
    "You can delegate authority but not responsibility" is an old GI saying.  
If FEMA chose lousy agencies to delegate work to, it's FEMA's fault.
BN> work. If a couple of the different groups break down it is not
BN> FEMA's falt but the falt of the relief agency or the police or
BN> fire. Usually what happens during a disaster when there is
BN> looting is that the police don't follow their own disaster plan
BN> and just go out of control. In other words they lose it. 
    The civil-preparedness coordinator in neighboring Guilford County had a 
far different view years before Hurricane Fran.  She complained that FEMA 
endlessly wanted her agency to structure its disaster plan around preparing 
for a nuclear war, rather than preparing for the natural disasters that 
commonly occur here.  (She even ended up testifying before congress about 
.)
BN> Then is when FEMA gets the blame for going wrong but the lead
BN> agency is usually the police or fire depending on the disaster
BN> and any other agency, even government can't come in and assist
BN> till they are requested.
BN> It is the old "pride gets in the way".
    No, it is a FEMA that is more interested in preparing for and dreaming up 
continuity-of-government plans for nuclear war than preparing to handle 
hurricanes.
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