[NautiNurse]

I'm really glad you posted this thread. There are some marvelous photos with captions published on the USGS website. Scroll down for rescue and relief pics beginning August 29.

[Ellesu]

Thanks, great photos!

[Wally_Kalbacken]

I think it is remarkable and it's good to see the Coast Guard in its ascendancy after a long period of getting no respect.

However - you have to ask - once Mayor Nagin failed to do his job and get essentially everyone out of the city - how much expense and how many lives can be chalked up to the local failure? All this falderal about the Bush Administration and FEMA would be moot if there had been no one left in New Orleans, in the path of the storm. When you go into critical failure analysis mode (which the MSM may engage in beginning in 6 months) you come back to the Nagin failure. It all stems from that.