To quote Michel from Gilmore Girls: "People are particularly stupid today--I can't talk to any more of them."
No, the effects of Katrina on New Orleans were no greater than an average Cat-3 hurricane.
The levies should have held. Turns out Bush was right when he said nobody expected them to fail. When they saw the hurricane weaken, and go to the east (putting NO on the correct side), it was assumed the levies would hold.
Then they broke, because they were not built correctly. People died because of the malfeasance of someone, probably politicians in New Orleans, the Levy board, and corrupt companies working on fat contracts from their buddies in politics, with union workers.
Seriously, this is the big story that MSM has been trying to supress as long as it could because it doesn't play into the "Bush killed the blacks" theme.
I've been saying all along (because I read it) that something was horribly wrong when a wall just falls over when it isn't overrun -- like happened on the one canal.