[TheSpottedOwl]

The biggest problem is that there was no plan in place to move cooperate residents, and imo the warning wasn't given the mandatory evacuation notice soon enough. They knew this would happen eventually, so why didn't these idiots at least make the levee repairs top priority?

I know the "big one" is coming in CA. At least with hurricanes, you can track them on radar. You can't do that with earthquakes.

[Arizona Carolyn]

As a matter of fact they had some earthquakes out my way in the California Desert this afternoon...

[AFPhys]

For those who missed a very early post this thread: I suggest this excellent rant by jeffers about the difficulties city and state officials face...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1474387/posts?page=106#106

I'm not vouching for ANY of this as right or wrong... but it is important for everyone to try to get a handle on the magnitude of the problems evacuating a large city ... and why it is critical that we not get into the blame game right now.


When you start thinking big, you start understanding that one person doesn't count anymore. Not the mayor, not the governor, not even President Bush. Bush will not fix this, the New Orleans police will not fix this, and the National Guard will not fix this.

They aren't big enough.

Three hundred million American people are going to fix this, or else it isn't going to get fixed.