Likewise they also don't know that the Lord is coming, like a thief in the night. And that will surprise them too.
At the risk of offending the secular here (but those who are not will understand):
"For as in the days before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and did not know until the flood came and took them all away, so also will be the coming of the Son of Man."
-- Matthew 24:38-39
A lesson for New Orleans, which didn't learn, and for mankind in general, which still has time to learn.
Nice post.
I am not suprised at the lack of airtime this story is getting!