Actually, it took time to get people in Florida too, and that damage was on a smaller scale than the submerging of a major city. We went for two weeks without power during the first one. I hate to say it, but it was the local/state companies and organizations that made it tough. They didn't want people from the Gov't or other states coming in to take over and tell them what to do because they had already not used funds the way they should've, which would've prevented much of the power outtages.

I just do get tired of any disaster being used as a platform for bitchery from people who were bitching anyways before anything happened. They seem more interested in getting some topic of substance to bitch about to supposedly "back" their complaint than they are about fixing anything(heh.. i guess i'm speaking specifically about a couple self-righteous doofs on my friends list who figure they're really helping Katrina victims by whining almost exclusively about Bush and his administration alone for the last week).