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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">But they are not allowed to engage until authorized by state officials, which did not happen until 2 days after the storm hit.
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<div>Third of all, what you are telling me is that the poor federal government, like some sort of gigantic, bureaucracy-crazed DMV clerk, realized that it couldn't assist in one of its three most likely catastrophic scenarios because /the proper paperwork wasn't signed/? This strains credibility and punches right through logic and out the other side. What the hell were they afraid of -- a lawsuit by the state of Louisiana?
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<div>-- ACS</div><br> </div>