[PigRigger]

"Alot was theory now its reality I just dont see how other govts with the unique circumstances esp dealing with geology and economics could have done much better..."

Actually, they may have been able to do better, but at what cost....like everything in life we have to balance the cost vs. the benefit...obvioulsy to have been better prepared would have cost LA and the city of NO a great deal of resources....in the end those resources were allocated elsewhere....in hindsight it now appears to be a mistake....but for all those years before it didn't look that way...

[cajungirl]

40 years ago during Betsy, everyone talked about this possibility. 40 years ago.

Louisiana is full of good people who have been poorly served by government for as long as I have been alive.

Listening to Bobby Jindal makes it breathtakingly clear, the voters made the wrong choice. And the difference was made in New Orleans. A sad thing. But the people of NO were the ones who put Blanco and Landrieu in office.

Mike Foster would have managed this better. I feel sorry for the Gov, being a woman of a certain age I know I would be equally blithering and helpless, so I can empathise with her. But right now I long for a leader who might make me grumble but who would make me know the state was in good hands. I think Jindal would have been that kind of leader.

That said, this was an act of nature, terrible and predictable. The rest is really white noise. I still can't be reliably, consistently angry here. It is just too sad.