[Jim Noble]

if WE, sitting here at our keyboards days in advance, can figure some of this stuff out, why in the world can't the people who are PAID to figure this stuff out can't figure it out.

The municipal officals of NO (and it's not just NO) are usually amiable boobs, experienced in saying "yes" and it getting the money later from others.

This disaster could have happened in any major city which did not have Rudy Giuliani and his crew running it.

If Boston could get Cat V hurricanes, you would have seen the idiot Menino babbling while the Back Bay and Fenway disappeared beneath the waves.

The people who are PAID to figure this out are the wrong people, and it's the fault of the voters.

[King Prout]

very true - and now the electorate is paying a true butcher's bill.