Well, a Cat 3 is not exactly chopped liver.
I know...I was trying to be facetious...because the day after Katrina hit....Shep Smith was standing down in the French Quarter, reporting that NO had dodged a bullet...
THAT was about an hour or so before all of the flooding started...
I just heard another idiotic statment...Bill Hemmer on Fox, who has been reporting from NO for weeks...and all day today re: the levee breaks....just said,
"Well, I think that once Rita hits shore, once again NO will be back as the main news because of the flooding from these levee breaks"....
jeez louise, as far as I am concerned....Katrina has never STOPPED being the main story...it is almost like Rita is a distraction for some of these people..
Of course, when you have Sen. Landrieu and Sen. Vitter on TV yesterday demanding your tax dollars to repair all levees, and rebuild NO...and then see THIS with just some rain....
I would think NOW is the time to say forget it---either build NO ABOVE sea level....or no taxpayer should have to fund the repairs..