Hattiesburg Mayor Johnny DuPree is angry, upset and scared.
“I started trying to get federal help in here on Monday and six days after this town has struggled to get enough water and ice for its people, we finally hear from the feds,” DuPree said Saturday.
Hurricane Katrina slammed into the Mississippi Gulf Coast on Monday and slashed its way through Hattiesburg and the Pine Belt.
Two representatives from the Federal Emergency Management Agency arrived in Hattiesburg Saturday.
“I didn’t have an airplane or a telephone or a radio that worked,” DuPree said. “Finally I just sat in my car and yelled. No one heard that either.”
But wait, I was watching Meet the Press, and Haley Barbour made it sound as if Mississippi was good to go – feds came in and fixed everything up.