New Orleans and thereabouts

I've held out as long as possible. Thank goodness I did. What a waste of time anything I could have said about the Hurricane Katrina disaster would have been. Property damage was extreme. Loss of life was large though not as bad as that boob Nagin predicted. Forget the Foot Locker; federal disaster relief money is coming. Let the REAL looting begin!
Every level of government failed the people of New Orleans. It seems like everyone wants to find someone (else) to blame for the problems and there's more than enough to go around. I'll never forget the reporter asking the homeland security dude about exactly whose heads were going to roll. He must have repeated that thought six times; '...whose heads are going to roll?" The question was asked during the peak of the crisis when actual non-metaphorical heads really were rolling. Quite sensible I think. And if your dad is in the hospital and he's had a heart attack you should have your lawyer interrupt the doctor performing CPR to take depositions too.
For better or worse its both too late and too early to start the real investigation into what went wrong. No mistake, a real investigation should be done, responsibility fixed, flawed procedures uncovered, and criminal behavior prosecuted mercilessly. Getting large-scale disaster response is just too important to get bogged down in trying to make Nagin, Blanco, and Bush look as bad as possible. If we let the autopsy on this whole sordid event turn into a chance to grind our respective axes then nothing will really get fixed.
If fixing the problem isn't the most important consideration then we'll end up with some sort of Disaster Dare Program. It makes legislators feel good and lets them tell the voters that they did something but in reality makes absolutely no difference.