FEMA gets to cover its tracks on Monday Night Football
During Monday Night Football, which featured Tennessee at New Orleans, sideline reporter Suzy Kolber spent a good chunk of her evening discussing the recovery from Hurricane Katrina.
During one such segment, Kolber said she had spoken to a top administrator at FEMA. Kolber paraphrased the administrator, saying, in effect that they were impressed they were as far along as they were, they never have had to rebuild a city before, and that they should expect the process to take 20-30 years.
If there’s one thing the U.S. government understands, it’s how to get a message across and who to get it across to. Now, the vast majority of MNF viewers will figure that these things take time. Three decades worth of time.
Because, like everything else, they never imagined anything like that could have happened.