Learned nothing from Katrina?

Holy flying cows.

What is the Douglas County Emergency Management Department doing? Evidently they aren't preparing to manage emergencies. Are the expectations so low after Katrina that we find it acceptable they couldn't even keep their generator and sirens running?

This wasn't an equipment failure, as Director Phillips was quoted as saying in the paper, this was a failure of emergency management officials keep their emergency equipment tested and running when an actual emergency occured.

During the next storm I won't be in my basement, I will be headed downtown with a couple of cans full of gas doing the job DCEM is supposed to be doing.


Link.