NPR/ME: "nothing going on in FEMA control center"

[Kolesar]

Mourning Edition 9/16/2005 has an excellent segment. Staff that was to be "on watch" in the center (to use a naval term), reported : "reports were not coming in, no mobilization of resources was happening". The metaphor was "like you pulled the fire lever and the handle came off in your hand".
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4849706

[opihimoimoi]

1. SNAFU continues...figures

[Lochloosa]

2. I was listening on my way to work....

They just did not get it or didn't care. We'll I guess when your boss is on a 5 week vacation and 'working the crowd' for dough, there is no reason to take anything seriously.

[ladylibertee]

3. What else is new

[NRaleighLiberal]

4. That was quite a depressing report - Leo Boessman (sp?) was the

interviewee. What struck me, in addition to the horrific non-reaction from Brownie and Jerkoff, was that there seems to be such heavy reliance on such a passive communication mode - email. I work in a business process improvement group at my company, and we have a big communication issue here (as do many if not all companies) - so few people actually speak face to face or pick up the phone and speak directly to each other any more. Email provides such a nice array of excuses - whoops, battery on my Blackberry was low, didn't get a chance to read it, are you sure you sent it to me? etc. I suspect that they need some sort of direct emergency hot line in these cases.

All in all, a very honest, alarming, and damning report, well done, and another nail in the coffin of the misadministration.