According to WhiteHouse.gov on 8/29/6 - "DHS Has Four Times The Emergency Meals And Ice, And 2.5 Times The Water Available This Year Than Were Available Prior To Hurricane Katrina. These supplies have the capacity to sustain 1 million people for one week."

	Pre-Katrina	Post-Katrina	% Increase	Service Capacity
MREs	180 truckloads	770 truckloads	+300%	1 truckload serves 10,000 people/day
Water	600 truckloads	1,500 truckloads	+150%	1 truckload serves 5,000 people/day
Ice	430 truckloads	2,000+ truckloads	+400%	1 truckload serves 5,000 people/day
Disaster Assistance Employees	Approximately 4,000 employees	Approximately 8,000 employees	+100%	N/A

Talk about horses and barn doors but the real question is whether when the next storm hits will they ship those ice trucks to Minnesota. And don't you think that "N/A" is curious on Service Capacity for the 8,000 employees?

Were any of these commodities in short supply after Katrina? I heard there was plenty but it was all stranded in Metairie or out of town. What was in short supply were buses to get the people out (even that is actually wrong as there were hundreds of un flooded school buses and city transit buses that just weren't used). What was lacking was communications equipment to let officials assess and react. When phones and cell phones failed there wasn't anything else to replace them. What was entirely missing was the common sense to read a map and send relief across the unflooded westbank and the Crescent City Connection to the tens of thousands stranded in the city.

You just have to conclude these guys don't get it! Just wasting more of our money is not the same as being prepared.