At the peak of hurricane season, we should be thinking in a mode far different from the "call FEMA" mentality we’ve grown used to in this post-Katrina age. The application of local knowledge by local people is the only way to rise up from disaster, says the Mercatus Center in this local knowledge series.
-Max Borders
I thought FEMA did an outstanding job after Fran in Raleigh. My understanding is that the New Orleans problems were mostly at the hands of idiot local and state government workers.