Yesterday Joe Scarborough did his show from Biloxi, Mississippi. Scarborough Country is one of the many shows reporting on the recovery and relief effort. It seems that the media has inundated the disaster areas almost as much as hurricane Katrina did. In this case though I have to say that I think the media frenzy surrounding this story is a good thing. I wonder what would happen if there were little or no media coverage of how badly the relief efforts have been miss-managed. I think the only reason things seem to be getting on track now is because of the wide-spread reporting on how bad the situation is and how the relief effort was not even coming close to meeting the scope of the challenge. The clear lack of coordination of various government agencies and NGOs is quite disturbing. Certainly the disaster response system in this country has had billions of dollars poured into it since 9/11. So where have all those homeland security dollars gone? If a storm, which was literally seen coming miles away, can apparently catch this country's disaster response system completely off guard, then how is it capable of reacting to an unforeseen event like a terrorist attack? A nuclear, radiological or chemical/biological attack could require a similarly sized evacuation and relief effort. I consider this a big "F" on government's report card for homeland security preparedness.