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Well, it wasn't even a named storm till Wednesday. You could say that Katrina snuck up on all of us.

I'm just tired of watching everybody try to assess blame anytime something bad happens. Sure, sometimes there is true malfeasance. But this hurricane is not Bush's fault, or the news media's fault, or anybody else's fault. And anybody whose head isn't in a hole (or who isn't stoned/drunk in the French Quarter) should know that it's on the way.

I'm just big on personal responsibility, as in looking out for your own best interest by taking the time and effort to find out what's happening, both near and far. In this age of communication, there are so many outlets that none of us has any excuse for ignorance.

Free Republic is a news outlet, and we've been following the storm here for days.

So let's all just quit bitching and start praying.

Oh, I agree that people could have done their own research or just visited Drudge and GOT OUT!

But I feel sorry for the people who aren't media savvy in the backwoods of southern La. or whatever who need a lot of extra attention on this thing before the reality would hit them all. Otherwise the news just travels too slowly.

Basically I guess I'm saying the national media should have informally done the job of the mayor or governor by scaring everyone with the potential impact in a non-mandatory way. Allowing everyone to go to bed tonight without the fear of God being put in them was a huge gamble. They should have been specifially warned about the chance that if they didn't leave overnight while roads were as free as they'll ever be, that they could be trapped on the roads after waking up to a Catagory 4/5.