![]() ![]() The Committee conducted a long and thorough investigation of these issues, and is grateful for the work of its staff of investigators, writers, researchers, and other professionals that made this report possible. The United States Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Aff airs has prepared this bipartisan report to acknowledge what was done well, to identify what was done poorly or not at all, and to recommend changes in our national system for emergency response that will put local, state, federal, and private responders in a better position to provide prompt and effective relief when disaster strikes again. Hurricane Katrina found us - still - a nation unprepared for catastrophe. Louis or Sacramento, a biological weapon smuggled into Boston Harbor, or a chemical-weapon terror attack in Chicago? How much worse would the nightmare have been if the disaster had been unannounced - an earthquake in San Francisco, a burst levee near St. Meanwhile, thousands languished in heat and squalor on islands of concrete highway, in darkened stadiums, in nursing homes, or on rooftops, waiting for rescue, sometimes dying before help arrived.Īll of this unfolded nearly four years after the terror attacks of Septemafter a massive reorganization of federal plans and organizations for disaster response and billions of dollars of expenditures and after a closely observed hurricane struck when and where forecasters said it would. Coast Guard but, to add bewilderment and outrage to our sense of tragedy, we were horrified when the response to the Katrina catastrophe revealed - all too oft en, and for far too long - confusion, delay, misdirection, inactivity, poor coordination, and lack of leadership at all levels of government. We were heartened by acts of initiative, perseverance, and heroism by local responders and the U.S. We watched in horror as hundreds died in collapsed or flooded houses and nursing homes. We watched in sympathy as hundreds of thousands of lives were upended when the hurricane struck the coasts of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama. In the late summer of 2005, millions of us watched the satellite images of Hurricane Katrina as it moved through the Gulf of Mexico and drove menacing swells of water toward the American coastline. Rechtshaffen as Minority Staff Director on May 1, 2006. ![]() Stein, Counsel, Office of Senator Liebermanĭonny Ray Williams, Jr., Professional Staff Member Patricia Rojas, Professional Staff MemberĪdam R. Burrell, Office Manager/Executive Assistant ![]() Andersen, Professional Staff Memberĭavid M. Alexander, Professional Staff Member*Įric P. Hemingway, Professional Staff MemberĬlark T. ![]()
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