[Goose]

While I think there is plenty of "blame" to go around at both the Federal and State level, the simple fact is that no nation/state/county or group will ever or can ever spend enough money to completely prepare them for various forms of disaster. We aren't prepared for "the big one" either. If any of the political or social entities tried to extract the money to do so, the cry of stupidity, waste and fraud would be heard everywhere, and rightly so. It is like insurance. When you chose your coverage, you buy what you can afford and/or accept a certain risk. You are always over-insured until you need it, and then you are always under-insured. The cycle repeats forever.
It is undoubtedly true we as a society could do better at this. But the long history is we have an event, we get through it, we adopt new measures to make sure "that doesn't happen again". Then as time passes, we quietly drop funding and support for whatever we did, and/or what we did is outpaced by events/population. Nobody complains because we have more pressing immediate problems. Then, it happens again. Rinse and repeat.

[Goose]

While I think there is plenty of "blame" to go around at both the Federal and State level, the simple fact is that no nation/state/county or group will ever or can ever spend enough money to completely prepare them for various forms of disaster. We aren't prepared for "the big one" either. If any of the political or social entities tried to extract the money to do so, the cry of stupidity, waste and fraud would be heard everywhere, and rightly so. It is like insurance. When you chose your coverage, you buy what you can afford and/or accept a certain risk. You are always over-insured until you need it, and then you are always under-insured. The cycle repeats forever.
It is undoubtedly true we as a society could do better at this. But the long history is we have an event, we get through it, we adopt new measures to make sure "that doesn't happen again". Then as time passes, we quietly drop funding and support for whatever we did, and/or what we did is outpaced by events/population. Nobody complains because we have more pressing immediate problems. Then, it happens again. Rinse and repeat.