National Journal blog - 21 January 2010

http://security.nationaljournal.com/2010/01/haiti-rating-the-us-disaster-r.php#1408503

Comments

[J]

So the National Journal now has 'Brownie' of Katrina fame commenting on disasters like Hati. I thought that Mr. Brownie had been shown to be missing a few in the decision wise department regarding his stint as FEMA director.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_D._Brown and
http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/11/03/brown.fema.emails/

I wonder how much that Flatiron Advisors, LLC are paying Mr. Brown, and why the National Journal is using his inputs. http://security.nationaljournal.com/contributors/Brown.php

[par4]

There doesn't seem to be anybody in charge here at home either. Corporate America knows they've squeezed the last nickel out of that mess.

[William R. Cumming]

The Haiti Earthquake is the largest scale human disaster occurring in the Western Hemisphere since Columbus landed with all the disease vectors that followed. You ain't seen nothing yet.

[Charles I]

Mr Scheuer doesn't seem much of a multi-tasker, does he?

On the other hand, new horizons in urban planning beckon. There is now reporting about the robustness of one-story shantytown structures transmogrified into desirable habitation amidst the more civilized rubble.

I share WRC's optimism that more, and greater calamities await, each with wide scale cascading effects on global systems. Every state will learn the limits of its agency to be sure