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“Where the hell is the cavalry on this one?...They keep saying we’re going to get supplies. For God’s sake, where are they?” Kate Hale, Director of Emergency Management, Miami-Dade County FL, Day Three PressConference, Hurricane Andrew Response, 1992“[A]t some point we saw there was…nothing for the federal government to stick on to.” Scott Wells, FEMA Deputy Federal Coordinating Officer for Hurricane Katrina in Louisiana, quoted in
Hurricane Katrina: ANation Still Unprepared
, Special Report of the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs,U.S. Senate, May 2006 “The preparation and response to Hurricane Katrina show we are still an analog government in a digital age.”
A Failure of Initiative
, The Final Report of the Select Bipartisan Committee to Investigate the Preparations for and Response to Hurricane Katrina, U.S. House of Representatives, February 15, 2006