There are a lot of things that didn't work well. We are not where we need to be as a nation in the area of preparedness.
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And it seems to me correct then, and I think it's correct now, that job one is get the planning done, make sure the buses are there. When that's done, it's completely appropriate to go around and tour around and look at the damage.
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I think we have discovered over the last few days that with all the tremendous effort using the existing resources and the traditional frameworks of the National Guard, the unusual set of challenges of conducting a massive evacuation in the context of a still dangerous flood requires us to basically break the traditional model and create a new model one for what you might call kind of an ultracatastrophe,
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absolutely an appropriate response while this and other intelligence information continued to be examined and analyzed.
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We are in the process of doing everything within our power to get resources down to the state of Florida, ... everybody's patience and forbearance.
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