A FEMA Regional Director spills the beans on just how f-d up the response was. No, really.
"Issues developing at the Superdome. The medical staff at the dome says they will run out of oxygen in about two hours and are looking for alternative oxygen," Bahamonde wrote in an e-mail to regional director David Passey in a call at 4:46 p.m. CDT on Aug. 28.
Less than an hour later, Bahamonde wrote: "Everyone is soaked. This is going to get ugly real fast."
Bahamonde said he was stunned that FEMA officials responded by continuing to send truckloads of evacuees to the Superdome for two more days even though they knew supplies were in short supply.
"I thought it amazing," he said. "I believed at the time and still do today, that I was confirming the worst-case scenario that everyone had always talked about regarding New Orleans."
Later, on Aug. 31, Bahamonde frantically e-mailed Brown to tell him that thousands are evacuees were gathering in the streets with no food or water and that "estimates are many will die within hours."
"Sir, I know that you know the situation is past critical," Bahamonde wrote.
Less than three hours later, however, Brown's press secretary wrote colleagues to complain that the FEMA director needed more time to eat dinner at a Baton Rouge restaurant that evening. "He needs much more that (sic) 20 or 30 minutes," wrote Brown aide Sharon Worthy.
People are dying, drowing, and in dire straits, and this fucker Brown (you're doing a heck of a job, Brownie) is busy eating a nice comfy dinner in Baton Route and doesn't want to be disturbed?
If this happened in the 1700's, Brownie would be tarred and feathered, and perhaps deservedly so.
But its the 2000's, and we have G. W. Bush in the White House. So he'll probably get a medal. At a minimum, he left his job and was brought back as a consultant to review what went wrong. Who fucks things up this badly and then gets hired back to investigate what went wrong? Only in Bush's America.
This incompetent SHOULD be sent back to his arabian horse show group, but since THEY fired him too, he should be relieved from ever working in a job dealing with humans or animals in the future.
Good work. You did do one heck of a job, Brownie.
"We now have traffic to encounter to go to and from a location of his choise (sic), followed by wait service from the restaurant staff, eating, etc. Thank you."
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