[BenLurkin]

What 'slow response'?

[Tolik]

Very Informative!

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[tfecw]

Bump for a more in-depth reading later.

[LWalk18]

Thanks for posting this. It's a long article, but I hope people take a look because it has a lot of good points and more importantly, facts to back them up.

[GrandEagle]

for the slow response in New Orleans this week
I'm not sure that the starting premise is correct.

GE

[R. Scott]

To bad our "esteemed" news media will ignore this.

[Echo Talon]

Are you fudgin' the numbers, Cookin' the books? :D hehe

[Mike Darancette]

there were at least 6 murders, and 12 rapes among the enclosed evacuees

How does this compare to similar period of time in NO before Katrina?

[redgolum]

Good article.

I just pray that this whole incident teaches the government a bit about disaster response, and the citizen a lot on being self reliant.

[caisson71]

The heavily editorialized "news" by all stations is a tragedy in itself. It is another disgraceful example that nothing is off limits when it comes to bias in the media. I do not exempt FOX NEWS from this "dog pack" mentality either.

[Jeff Head]

GREAT article and spot on.

Here's my Lessons learned form the Katrina disaster and tragedy

[Muzzle_em]

I predict that when the water recedes, we will see a whole lot of cars in the flooded neighborhood where nobody owns a car because they are too poor. While there will be dead bodies, I don't expect tens of thousands. I do expect 1,000 - 1,500, which should NEVER happen in this country when we have the resources LIKE SCHOOL BUSES AND CITY BUSES to get people out in time.

[LongElegantLegs]

bttt

[GOP_1900AD]

I blame Nagin. He failed to lead. End of discussion.

[SolomoninSouthDakota]

New Orleans was fortunate in that the levees held for the time they did. Imagine the human loss if they had been breached on Monday morning.

[freekitty]

Maybe Russert should be the one fired.

[tumblindice]

Good post. On a directly related note, an October 2004 National Geographic article.

http://205.188.130.53/ngm/0410/feature5/

"The chances of such a storm hitting New Orleans in any given year are slight, . . ."

[Rightly Biased]

for later

[jbwbubba]

We keep hearing about the Levees were blt for a Cat 3 and not a Cat 4 or 5 when Katrina hit. However, as is noted here katrina didn't hit N.O. directly and the number of "dodging the bullet" claims. Yet the levee didn't break during the storm, it broke after the storm had passed over. I heard one report that someone saw a large ship or barge that was lose and hit a levee and caused the breach, makes sense to me.

[brothers4thID]

Good article, thanks