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Lt. Gen. Honore was in charge of the Katrina response in New Orleans 12 years ago and warned CNN's Eric Burnett that 'night is coming' -- saying it was going to get a lot worse before it got better.
Honore carefully crafted his words and slammed the response in Houston as being grossly inadequate, disgusted by the fact that they didn't even have 100 helicopters in the city to do search and rescues. He harkened back to the Katrina rescue plan where the 5th army (engineers) used a 'significant grid system' for search and rescue. Now, according to Honore, 'it looks like no one in Texas ever read the plan.'
"You have to come in big and you've got to be there right at the edge of the storm so you can come in as soon as possible and go in and rescue people.
Back during Katrina, Honore said they had 240 helicopters and 40,000 national guard within the first 4 days, orders of magnitude more than what's on the ground in Texas now.
"They just got 100 helicopters here. Something is significantly wrong with command and control and they need to stop patting each other on the back who are waiting to get rescued."
"I know I'm sounding critical," Honore acknowledged as he called for an "Army response to local civil disasters.
"They've come upon a time when their mission is too big for the state National Guard — and they need to get the hell over it and bring them in when they have a big mission."
Watch.