The difference in the two was in the "response", T... Yes, same overall organization just that with Katrine one thing was missing: an order for FEMA to mobilize...

Brown said he spoke with Bush two days before Katrina amd told him that he was very concerned about the possibility of a Cat 4 or Cat 5 hitting the Gulf Coast...

Now we learn that Gov. Blanko was making pleas as well... The White House is sandbagging on providing documents that would prove that...

Bottome line, if FEMA was the calvery, because of Bush's failure to order Chertoff to mobilize FEMA, the calvery was late...

And, yes, nice job on Rita...

Bobert