The odd thing there is that the affluent places seem to have been hit hardest. That's where people could afford homes, condos, and businesses built right up to the coast. So they legitimately are the ones who need the most help. Naples got slammed to hell and back, for instance. And they need road and power crews and emergency supplies as much as anyone else. Plus (I have learned a lot from watching local news obsessively over the past week) individual county emergency departments have a LOT of say about what happens. For instance, the sheriff's department or something tried to call a curfew in my county Sunday night, and our EOC manager said "oh no you don't."

Really, I have no idea. Rick Scott's a snake, but this is weird. I'm wondering if his office is trying to hide that emergency funds got siphoned elsewhere. It wouldn't be the first time that happened in the South by a long shot. See: Katrina.