Years After Katrina, FEMA Still Not Ready
The Tampa Tribune is reporting that more than two years of Katrina hit the the Gulf Coast the Federal Emergency Management (FEMA) still can’t implement the changes set forth in the Post-Katrina Reform Act. Simply amazing.
Significant improvements in the federal response to a catastrophic hurricane are unlikely to be implemented or "realistically tested" by the upcoming hurricane season, warns a new government report.
The report was released Tuesday as the head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency came under congressional grilling about why his agency does not have a fully updated disaster-response plan ready—two years after Hurricane Katrina.
"As it enters the 2007 hurricane season, FEMA is an organization in transition that is working to implement the reorganization mandated by the Post-Katrina Reform Act," states the Government Accountability Office report.
You can read an overview of the March 7, 2007 GAO Report (PDF format) here.
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Hi my name is Alison Rutsch and I am an art student. This is a message directed to whoever took the pictures of the damage from hurricane katrina. I am doing a series of paintings based on my own memories and the memories of my family, juxtaposed against what the places they remember are like currently. My parents are from New Orleans and I was hoping to use images of Katrina as references for some of my paintings. I am writing to ask your permission to use your images of the damage from Katrina as references for my paintings(I’m not sure if this is the exact place to ask this, but I was unable to find an email to contact you)-I will by no means be making copies of your images and am not a photo-realistic painter. It would be a big help.
If you could please get back to me soon, I would be much obliged.
Thank you,
Alison Rutsch (arutsch@gmail.com)
PS- As someone who has close attachments to New Orleans, I think what you’re doing is very important and I hope to show your website to my parents and grandparents who lived there.