[Torie]

He was just spinning, albeit incompetently. He probably isn't having anyone research anything. He is a deer in the headlights, who had the chief weather guy call him, whom I am listening to now, to tell him, that absent moving now, the folks who remain will likely die, because the levees will NOT hold. That caused the mayor to panic. You could hear it in his voice. Oh dear, what do I do now? Here I had a plan to just bus the impoverished to the super bowl stadium, and tell tourists to ride out the storm in their hotel rooms, and it sucked, because I am a dumbass.

If this is the perfect storm, NO isn't coming back, ever, I suspect, in any way like it was remotely before.

[Torie]

For the record, the guy who read the riot act to the mayor was Max Mayfield, of the National Weather Center. He made it clear that those that remain, are very likely to die, in his gentle drawl. He said that this the storm he had feared for 35 years, and now it has come. He said he laid it out to mayor so he could sleep at night for the rest of his sojourn on this mortal coil. This is veritable Shakespeare, with the mayor as Hamlet.

[sonsofliberty2000]

Idiot. He is a complete idiot, and has been created as such by a nation in fear of law and lawsuits. We fear expressing ourselves, doing anything at all because we fear being caught in a trap by a lawyer. I remember a South Park episode where the lawsuits brought by Cartman escalated to Everyone vs. Everyone, and it was exactly the predictament that now leads us to stand mouths agape while idiots in NO get ready to have Hurricane party's, the mayor won't budge in fear of lawsuits, and death moves forward to flush out the Big Easy.

[SE Mom]

Hurricane Camille- 17 August, 1969

WINDS: 190 mph (sustained- gusts over 220)
PRESSURE: 909 Mb./26.84 inches.
STORM - SURGE: 22 - 25 feet above Mean Tide.

http://www.geocities.com/hurricanene/hurricanecamille.htm

Just posting this link again- it's worth clicking if you've never read the story of Camille.