Katrina - What Went Right

Interesting article on what went right in the New Orleans rescue effort. It would seem that with no unified command and no communication systems established that multiple rescue groups simply went about there work saving people without recognition. While the press was reporting that nothing was going on, and in the process making a politcal issue out of it, thousands of lives were being saved.

"Urban also notes one explanation why the rescue operation flew below the radar of the media: Individual federal and state units were not coordinating their efforts overall. There was no central clearing house for information on rescue efforts. What looked like a hurricane relief breakdown was in fact a press release breakdown."

So while we had a near total governmental breakdown at the local, state and federal level the people and agencies themselves went about their work.