Listening to the cables, the reporters are just beginning to "get it."
Some of them are beginning to get quite edgy with the reporters in NO.
By tomorrow, there should be all out panic.
You would think they had a pre-storm plan to evac their reporters since they were hyping this as the BIG ONE. Either that, or the reporters signed a BIG Release form.
One would think somebody would announce some coordinated plan to get everyone out of the bowls - everybody. Maybe nobody is in charge, and nobody is trying to fit all the pieces together. Nobody is trying to set up some temporary camp to house tens of thousands of evacuees. Nobody is organizing sending in fleets of those big military helocopters to transport those in the bowl to the camp outside it. Why? Their probably isn't a chapter on it in the Fema handbooks that one can readily turn to. All three levels of government on this one appear to be horribly and tragically incompetent. Heck that one levee was leaking for 24 hours with nobody knowing about it, and just some reporters and Freepers chatting about just why the water was rising.