[bayourant]

I am just saying that the people need to look up the definition of catastrophic. Thats what we are dealing with here. Alot was theory now its reality I just dont see how other govts with the unique circumstances esp dealing with geology and economics could have done much better

[PigRigger]

"Alot was theory now its reality I just dont see how other govts with the unique circumstances esp dealing with geology and economics could have done much better..."

Actually, they may have been able to do better, but at what cost....like everything in life we have to balance the cost vs. the benefit...obvioulsy to have been better prepared would have cost LA and the city of NO a great deal of resources....in the end those resources were allocated elsewhere....in hindsight it now appears to be a mistake....but for all those years before it didn't look that way...