The only silver lining in Rita is that the world is going to see Texas do what Louisiana failed to do, and no matter how the MSM tries to spin it, the bozos in LA will be properly judged by history... and by God.
For quite a few years now here in Houston we've been knowing we're over due for a hurricane. Our average has been one every 8 years or so, not necessarily a bad one, but a hurricane in the neighborhood. Why did it have to be a storm of the century??? Why did there have to be poetic justice?
(Of course let us all remember the words of Algore: This is but the first sip, the first taste of the bitter cup that is being proffered to us by climate change which THIS administration has ignored by failing to sign the Kyoto accords.)