[freeperfromnj]

Short of evacuation, nothing would have prevented so many deaths. The death count at the convention center and superdome is nothing compared to what the final body count from the outlying areas is going to be. The idiots in the press forget that if this was the Cat 5 direct hit they were originally supposed to get, everyone in the city of NO would have been wiped out, including Shepard Smith.

[abb]

And just imagine how it would have been had the storm accelerated to 25 mph and caught all the people in their cars.....

[Types_with_Fist]

Absolutely correct. The river levy likely would have gone as well and the city would simply have been gone. There would have been no talk at all of "rebuilding." I also agree with you. The death toll is going to be huge. An incredible shock to the national system.

[Mo1]

The idiots in the press forget that if this was the Cat 5 direct hit they were originally supposed to get, everyone in the city of NO would have been wiped out, including Shepard Smith.

EXACTLY!