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Sure, some places might've handled being completely destroyed a bit better, but there isn't a single fucking city in the United States that could've handled a disaster of this magnitute on its own. Therefore, its difficult for me to understand why people are bitching about Louisiana wanting more help from the Feds.
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The whole argument appears to be not aobut Louisiana needing more help from the feds, but state and local governments in Lousiana exacerbating the problem to where thousands were needlessly put in danger. Although there were federal teams in place to respond as soon as the hurricane left the area, they were insufficient to effect the immediate rescue of tens of thousands left in the city apparently because local and state officials didn't follow their own emergency evacuation plans. So instead of maybe 4 or 5 thousand needing to be rescued there was more than an order of magnitude more that needed it. It is unreasonable for federal authorities to have anticipated local government failing to follow the establish plan and immediately or nearly so have sufficient resources in place to handle the disaster that not only would have been the largest in the US without failure by local authorities, but now had been exacerbated to the point where tens of thousands of additional people needed rescued from a mostly submerged city located in the middle of a swamp that was highly inexcessable immediately except by helicopter, very small boats, and extremely limited land routes.
Further more at no time has Lousiana given full command and control over the disaster to the federal government. The Louisana governor has insisted in remaining in charge. This has limited federal response, coordination, and other efforts by having to go through and extra loop of "red tape" if you will. I'm sure the feds could have done a better job, but that doesn't mean that there was any major screw ups. I still say there isn't enough facts present to fully blame the Lousiana local government other than local leaders shouldn't be pointing at the feds for poor leadership when they still haven't seeded overall control to the feds.