The Only Timeline that Mattered

Quiddity points out this:

Sat 27 Aug
White House "The President today declared an emergency exists in the State of Louisiana and ordered Federal aid to supplement state and local response efforts in the parishes located in the path of Hurricane Katrina beginning on August 26, 2005, and continuing. The President's action authorizes the Department of Homeland Security, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), to coordinate all disaster relief efforts which have the purpose of alleviating the hardship and suffering caused by the emergency on the local population, and to provide appropriate assistance for required emergency measures"

Mon 29 Aug
CNN 7 a.m.: Katrina makes landfall on the Louisiana coast

Got that?

The Feds told everyone they were taking over two days before landfall.

One must assume, in fact, either that things went according to plan, or that Chertoff and Brown are incompetent.