Well, I'll add this for those interested:
Even with the lessons of Catrina, the response from the National Guard and FEMA was dismal and generally too slow.
During the first week or so, when we needed help the most, we saw nothing of FEMA, and though the Guard was around, about all they did was stand around waiting for orders.
FEMA showed up with all kinds of water about the time the water came back on. We still needed it, because the water for the first few days was hazardous to drink. The Guard was supposedly knocking on doors to see if anyone needed help, but I saw none of that until well into the second week, and when I stopped to talk to one of them, I found out they were gardsmen from Florida, not Kentucky.
The responses from government agencies is still a bureaucratic mess and far too slow to really be of much help when it is needed most. The response was a little better than during Catrina, but it was still far too slow and mostly ineffectual.
A FEMA medical team showed up at the hospital well after it already was closed and evacuated, and they just took up space for about a week and then left.
Local people huddled together, checked on each other and no doubt saved a bunch of lives during that first week when the Guard was standing around and FEMA was trying to figure out how to get here and what to do.
Generally, I believe all this "government disaster" assistance is a huge waste of taxpayer's money, and I've already figured out that their "desaster relief" programs are a joke as well, unless you've already got so much money you don't need it in the first place.