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The other great headache that's been induced is the fact that there is a very limited ability to get into and out of New Orleans right now (only I-10 west, right?). I'm fairly certain most of FEMA's disaster coping abilities can better handle more traditional locations (the recent spate of hurricanes in Florida, for example...how much complaining was there against FEMA for all those storms?). However, New Orleans is so unique geographically, I'm not sure FEMA (or any other agency at any level) could truly have been able to figure out what the best way to cope with what has happened. You can gameplan and drill all you want, but this situation is so unique I would wager that until it actually happened, nobody anywhere could truly appreciate how bad it was going to get. Sure, there were papers written about such scenarios, but it's another thing to actually have it happen and react to it. Just as in the military, planning never survives contact with the enemy (in this case a natural disaster and its aftermath).
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