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I wish you guys would cut them all some slack. Its not like anybody knew about any of this. Its a total and absolutel shocking suprise. Who would've guessed that a city 20' below a lake immediately adjecnt would actually flood if the wall separating the city from the lake breached (I mean come on, get real). Moreover, a plan is only as good as how well one practices implementing it, and its not like that was ever done.

"Oh, wait, we did do something, I seem to vaguely recall something, having to do with all that. Now just what was that..Oh, yeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaa.

Wooooooooooooooooaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!

Oooops. My Bad." - Mayor Nagin.

science fiction scenario

preposterous never could happen make-believe scenario

absolutely non-sensical no way in the world it could happen seminar

Pie in the sky - ivory tower - wack job nutter alarmist stuff

From the www.lsu.edu web-site (dated summer 2005):

"A second Hurricane Pam Exercise is planned for this summer," said van Heerden. "Agencies will be able to expand on aspects of response and recovery that were not explored before."

I guess its probably just me as a retrospective 20/20 hindsight - Monday morning quarterbacking armchair general that LA got sprung on them a double-secret super-dooper Hurricane Pam excercise that nobody knew was coming, left them absolutely flat-footed, and absolutely were left out in the cold due to George Bush's heartless capriciousness.

However, based on the results and outcome of this excercise, whatever these people had previously explored wasn't of any practical value whatsoever (that and two nickles would get you a dime).

I'm sure that's just me. But I guess that probably in great part is a result of not being a raving nutjob moonbat rabidly frothing at the maw, so I don't know what to tell you and all that.

On Saturday morning, I was worried that IT was going to kill tens of thousands, maybe tens of tens of thousands, and wipe out NO totally. I was making post after post about using military and other assets to get them out, now. On Sunday morning, I was in a veritable state of panic that goetterdamerung was at hand (cat 5, headed head on into NO), with still not real substantive reaction. And then the hand of God as it were, shot a breath of dry wind into the storm, weakening the monster and diverting it, and while NO is largely destroyed, and most everything under sea level will have to be bulldozed, the worst case scenario was averted - this time. "God" has warned us. We had better take heed. So says this near atheist.