"If you're a politician, your whole focus is short term, that's one of the unfortunate weaknesses of our democratic system."

Yeah, all they have to do is blame someone else. Most of the voters will forget in 2 months, and relect them anyway.

But it doesn't matter how organized a state is, when it has 16 miilion people (FL, & that's just a "for instance") and 90% of them sit on their butts and wait to be rescued and spoon-fed their MRE's.

If they can show up at distribution points, they could just as well have shown up at their local gas stations & local grocery stores and gotten themselves some supplies when the disaster was first predicted to be headed their way.

But no, they'd rather whine and cry and wring their hands and complain to the news media how put upon and abused they are, and how they can't find gas to put in their shiny new SUV.

GROW UP, AMERICA! THE WHOLE WORLD IS SNICKERING AT US! (And rightly so!)

Sue