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Locals join criticism of tardy response
By PENNY BROWN ROBERTS
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Advocate staff writer

The Bogalusa Medical Center limped along for a week with just enough power to run the emergency room before learning its plea for a generator was lost in a computer mishap.

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And when the East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff's Office -- contending with an influx of desperate evacuees -- was down to 24 hours of fuel for patrol cars, its regular supply suddenly got shut off.

The culprit wasn't two-story floodwaters or downed power stations or gun-toting looters, local authorities claim.

It was the very government agency charged with saving the day in times of disaster: the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

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So it's NOT just the "whiners in NO" complaining, hey Freepers?