manepali well you are right, but ke garni we dont have such a strong media...anyways back to katrina.:P I really cant believe that in this day and age that they have such broken lines of communications between city/state/US government officials as they had in this past week. Some of it can be forgiven because of communication outages in NO, but the LA(BR) <---> DC communication line breakdowns should be unforgivable...with both ends to be blamed. Hats off to NM Gov for offering NG help, and to everyone who offered help before the hurricane hit. As for the rest of the NG heads....well I guess you can chalk it up to bureaucracy. When i see a massive accident that just happened in the middle of the street, I jump in and offer assistance. I don't wait for the victims to ask for my help....they may not be able to ask for it. I guess the blame game is starting to be engaged by both sides now: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/03/AR2005090301680.html