Tries to examine the initial disaster programs, recovery disaster programs designed to cover-up for the initial flaws and the programs planned to prevent more disastrous disaster programs.

Federal disaster programs kind of sit there and gather moss after all the expenses of running the government agencies responsible for rendering assistance to the disaster victims are spent on staff salaries, computers, travel and all the accompaniments of perceived power. Hopefully, there will be no disasters. Otherwise, let them be small disasters which might not interrupt lunch. In the case of Hurricane Katrina, the federal disaster programs were themselves disasters which were limp responses to the thousands of dead, hundreds of thousands homeless and entire sectors of America destroyed. This new book tries to examine the initial disaster programs, recovery disaster programs designed to cover-up for the initial flaws and the programs planned to prevent more disastrous disaster programs.

Preface
Hurricane Katrina: Activities of the Social Security Administration
Hurricane Katrina: Fishing and Aquaculture Industries -- Damage and Recovery
New Orleans Levees and Floodwalls: Hurricane Damage Protection
Disaster Evacuation and Displacement Policy
Oil and Gas: Supply Issues After Katrina
Federal Stafford Act Disaster Assistance: Presidential Declarations, Eligible Activities and Funding
Organisation and Mission of the Emergency Preparedness and Response Directorate
Index.