Just wanted to throw these two articles out there for people to look at. They explain pretty well the difficulty in getting federal troops into a disaster area.
Note: this isn’t about blaming any one person or group of people, but more about getting the facts out there so people can actually try and be informed in their opinions.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/08/AR2005090801862_pf.html