# FEMA rates Katrina as one of its top accomplishments
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fema-rates-katrina-as-one-of-its-top-accomplishments/332573
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [November 24, 2005, 11:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fema-rates-katrina-as-one-of-its-top-accomplishments/332573 "2005-11-24T11:55:46Z")
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### Author:  [@BarnOwl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BarnOwl)
#### Post date: [November 24, 2005, 11:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fema-rates-katrina-as-one-of-its-top-accomplishments/332573/1 "2005-11-24T11:55:46Z")
Swear to God.
See item 11 at
[http://www.fema.gov/pao/dhs/update-112105.htm#eleven](http://www.fema.gov/pao/dhs/update-112105.htm#eleven)
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### Author:  [@Egad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Egad)
#### Post date: [November 24, 2005, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fema-rates-katrina-as-one-of-its-top-accomplishments/332573/2 "2005-11-24T14:15:35Z")
I hear they’re doing a great job of evacuating the now-homeless from the hotels they had them put up in too.
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### Author:  [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)
#### Post date: [November 24, 2005, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fema-rates-katrina-as-one-of-its-top-accomplishments/332573/3 "2005-11-24T23:01:35Z")
And President Bush is so upset with this display of total cluelessness on FEMA’s part that he’s done…nothing, apparently.
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### Author:  [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)
#### Post date: [November 24, 2005, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fema-rates-katrina-as-one-of-its-top-accomplishments/332573/4 "2005-11-24T23:27:38Z")
> [@RTFirefly](#):
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> And President Bush is so upset with this display of total cluelessness on FEMA’s part that he’s done…nothing, apparently.
I imagine he’s working on the text of Mr Brown’s Medal of Freedom citation.
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### Author:  [@zagloba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zagloba)
#### Post date: [November 25, 2005, 10:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fema-rates-katrina-as-one-of-its-top-accomplishments/332573/5 "2005-11-25T10:42:16Z")
In related news, [Michael Brown is starting a disaster preparedness planning firm.](http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051125/ap_on_re_us/brown_disasters;_ylt=AvDqeFA90pLNKN2eePZGdoCs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA3ODdxdHBhBHNlYwM5NjQ-) I am not making this up.
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### Author:  [@Baldwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baldwin)
#### Post date: [November 25, 2005, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fema-rates-katrina-as-one-of-its-top-accomplishments/332573/6 "2005-11-25T13:12:04Z")
**zagloba** , you beat me to it. Personally, I think if Michael Brown really wanted to serve the country, he’d commit ritual suicide. That might be a bit harsh.
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### Author:  [@Annie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie)
#### Post date: [November 25, 2005, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fema-rates-katrina-as-one-of-its-top-accomplishments/332573/7 "2005-11-25T18:45:42Z")
> [@Baldwin](#):
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> **zagloba** , you beat me to it. Personally, I think if Michael Brown really wanted to serve the country, he’d commit ritual suicide. That might be a bit harsh.
Forty days and forty nights camping out in the Ninth Ward might get him to grow a speck of empathy and perspective.
I’m being too optimistic, right?
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### Author:  [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)
#### Post date: [November 25, 2005, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fema-rates-katrina-as-one-of-its-top-accomplishments/332573/8 "2005-11-25T19:29:57Z")
> [@Baldwin](#):
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> **zagloba** , you beat me to it. Personally, I think if Michael Brown really wanted to serve the country, he’d commit ritual suicide. That might be a bit harsh.
Aw, come on! I bet he’ll do “a heck of a job!” At screwing everything up.
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### Author:  [@ioioio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ioioio)
#### Post date: [November 25, 2005, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fema-rates-katrina-as-one-of-its-top-accomplishments/332573/9 "2005-11-25T20:26:58Z")
You have to admit that FEMA did a heckuva job of keeping elephants out of New Orleans after the hurricane.
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### Author:  [@brownie55](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brownie55)
#### Post date: [November 25, 2005, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fema-rates-katrina-as-one-of-its-top-accomplishments/332573/10 "2005-11-25T20:42:14Z")
> [@zagloba](#):
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> In related news, [Michael Brown is starting a disaster preparedness planning firm.](http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051125/ap_on_re_us/brown_disasters;_ylt=AvDqeFA90pLNKN2eePZGdoCs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA3ODdxdHBhBHNlYwM5NjQ-) I am not making this up.
Thread [here.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=346538)
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### Author:  [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)
#### Post date: [November 25, 2005, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fema-rates-katrina-as-one-of-its-top-accomplishments/332573/11 "2005-11-25T20:58:41Z")
> [@laina\_f](#):
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> You have to admit that FEMA did a heckuva job of keeping elephants out of New Orleans after the hurricane.
WTF? 😕😕
There aren’t any elephants anywhere _NEAR_ New Orleans!
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### Author:  [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)
#### Post date: [November 25, 2005, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fema-rates-katrina-as-one-of-its-top-accomplishments/332573/12 "2005-11-25T21:19:37Z")
> [@Inigo Montoya](#):
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> WTF? 😕😕
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> There aren’t any elephants anywhere _NEAR_ New Orleans!
See what a great job they did?