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Please don't think I am issuing a blanket indictment of the citizenry of New Orleans. Hell, I have numerous friends there (some of which I have yet to hear from). I am speaking strictly of Nagin (and Morial before him), as well as the NOPD and the rest of the city planners. They are lazy, corrupt and took almost no steps to prepare for this.

Please don't think I am issuing a blanket indictment of the citizenry of New Orleans. Hell, I have numerous friends there (some of which I have yet to hear from). I am speaking strictly of Nagin (and Morial before him), as well as the NOPD and the rest of the city planners. They are lazy, corrupt and took almost no steps to prepare for this.

I think Nagin is going to have a tough time seeking re-election. I just hope we don't get a complete utter flaming lunatic. And, I doubt that it will become highly fashionable to wear "NOPD" clothing around the country to express patriotism.

"Doctors, nurses, policemen, and private citizens, who have so far gone largely unnoticed and unappreciated in the midst of the evil that seems to take the spotlight. We can still turn this into a story of hope and compassion."
Agreed, BeachDreamer.

I just hope that it will also be a learning experience.

Has anyone seen this article? It is from the Civil Engineering section of Scientific American and is eerily prescient.
Drowning New Orleans

Cil,
Thanks for the link to the article. Was very much worth reading.

T2M, I respect your opinion because I know you have live there, but the NHC provided three days of advance warning about this storm. The city engineers know the vulnerable spots in the levees. They had time to mobilze and at least attempt to address the problem. As would be expected from NOLA government, they did nothing. Had Nagin ordered the evac 24 hours earlier, much of this could have been avoided.

JB, I could be mistaken, but I think that three days out, we thought Katrina was coming to Panama City Beach and SoWal.

JB, I could be mistaken, but I think that three days out, we thought Katrina was coming to Panama City Beach and SoWal.

At around 2 pm on Friday (3 days out) I made the call to board up my house, since all projections had it going near SoWal.

At around 4:30 on Fri, it began to change slightly, and NOLA seemed to me at risk since I had been tracking it like a dog. Cat 1 or 2, IIRC. 10 pm news sounded alarms, if you saw it or if someone told you.

Sat. morning, SoWal was probably in the clear and NOLA was seriously at risk, but not entirely. (not all projections agreed). Alarms were being sounded all over NOLA. Hotels in Houston booked up by 11 am. Still a Cat 2. Cancelled the SoWal board order.

Sat pm, there was heavy evacuation from NOLA, with outlying areas under mandatory evacuation. Contraflow was established around 4 pm.

Sat evening still a cat 2, projected to be a cat 3, with all projections agreeing on NOLA

Woke up on Sunday. Was a Cat 5. Headed directly to NOLA with few disagreements. Prayer time.

JB, I could be mistaken, but I think that three days out, we thought Katrina was coming to Panama City Beach and SoWal.

We had a crew lined up to board up on Saturday.

Three tons of food ready for delivery by air to refugees in St. Bernard Parish and on Algiers Point sat on the Crescent City Connection bridge Friday afternoon as air traffic was halted because of President Bush?s visit to New Orleans, officials said.

The provisions, secured by U.S. Rep. Charlie Melancon, D-Napoleonville, and state Agriculture Commissioner Bob Odom, baked in the afternoon sun as Bush surveyed damage across southeast Louisiana five days after Katrina made landfall as a Category 4 storm, said Melancon?s chief of staff, Casey O?Shea.

?We had arrangements to airlift food by helicopter to these folks, and now the food is sitting in trucks because they won?t let helicopters fly,? O?Shea said Friday afternoon.

The food was expected to be in the hands of storm survivors after the president left the devastated region Friday night, he said.

Ironic..NO? This always happens to the airspace as you know...one reason some people wished the politicians would stay away...but if they do, they would get SLAMMED in the media!!!