[Hoodlum91]

"He also said that evacuating the city in the event of another hurricane should be smoother in the future"

That's because everyone is out already.

[muawiyah]

Yes, most New Orleansians are far better prepared this time ~ they are already OUT OF TOWN.

[HEY4QDEMS]

New Orleans is better prepared for the upcoming hurricane season because of stronger flood walls and better evacuation plans

And two thirds less people.

[Zavien Doombringer]

Nagin told The Associated Press he's confident the Corps is using better materials and designs on the levees.

"and also... they aren't planting the explosives this time..."

[garyhope]

If only New Orleans can weather Nagin, Blanco, all the corruption, race and welfare pimps, perhaps they'll survive.

[D-Chivas]

While campaigning, he has focused on rebuilding the city. On Monday, he endorsed a proposal that would allow all residents to rebuild homes in neighborhoods shattered by the hurricanes.

Will they all be on 30 foot stilts for when the levees go again?

[kingu]

First.. Uhh, Mayor? That's the Mississippi, not De Nile. A heavy storm would tax your city, forget about something as big as Katrina. You're a sitting duck for the next five to ten years as engineers try to figure out the problem, and you're lying to people if you tell them any different.

Second, come on. Who in their right mind would leave New Orleans again? If you ducked out of town at the start, odds are you got the shaft from all the freebies. Nope, better to stick it out with an ice cooler and a nice bit of high ground, and then get evacuated by whatever authorities are left. That's a $75,000 difference on average.

And finally, just be glad that there's twenty bozos after your job, because odds are they're going to split the vote from the residents left and you're going to be able to coast in on just the out of town vote. Personally, I think you deserve to be sitting in a jail cell, along with a whole lot of other people.

[LA Woman3]

"We should be able to sustain another Katrina," the mayor said.

Nagin is as sharp as a piece of melted chocolate....

[blam]

"He said residents would be bused away from the city rather than to shelters like the Superdome, where residents were stranded in hot, dank conditions for days after Katrina hit in late August."

Did anyone ask him where they would be bussed to?

[Dog Gone]

The mayor should also clarify in advance that the cops will loot with his official blessing.

[kromike]

"We should be able to sustain another Katrina," the mayor said.

(Nagin impression)..."We have reinforced the levees with rebar made of dark chocolate and delicious white milk."

[stylin19a]

um....was Katrina a CAT 5 ?

[CharlesWayneCT]

It will help that the people who were unable or unwilling to evacuate last time have no place to return to, so they are already pre-evacuated.

[CougarGA7]

Of course they are. There's no people in there.

[Allegra]

"We should be able to sustain another Katrina," the mayor said.

Good.

Because Houston can't. Houston got burned.

[RightResponse]

"We should be able to sustain another Katrina," the mayor said.

Oh... the Walmart has been restocked?

[mass55th]

Of course they're better prepared. Most of the population has already left.

[Wombat101]

Hindsight is, of course, 20/20.

New evacuation plan for New Orleans:

The next time we have a storm bearing down on us, one which has been tracked by the Weather Channel for two weeks as it made it's way from Africa across 3,000+ miles of open ocean, and the subject of every newscast and newspaper headline for the same two weeks, is not to be trifled with.

And since your government, local, state or federal, is incapable of dealing with a stornm of Biblical proportions, then your best bet is to RUN LIKE HELL at the first mention of such a storm.

Otherwise, you have no one to blame but yourself when you voluntarily stay in a city several feet below sea level, surrounded by walls intended to keep water out, but which are not guarenteed to work, and the Mayor is going to keep several hundred school buses idle until they are swamped, rather than use them to carry you to safety,and you have to wait the whole thing out inside a sports staidum hardly designed for the purpose of granting comfortable shelter, surrounded by all the other idiots also too stupid to run, and similarly unprepared for survival.

Government cannot save you from your own, bullet-proof stupidity, and won't even make the attempt. Doing so would merely inconvenience a whole slew of government employees who you are under the mistaken impression were hired to "protect" you.

So,the ball is in your court: Either head for the hills at the first sign of danger, or, grab your ankles and kiss your backside goodbye.

[Yo-Yo]

Mayor Says New Orleans Is Better Prepared

"We now know they keep the keys to those school buses hidden above the visors.

[Graybeard58]

The Mississippi, the Gulf Of Mexico and Lake Pontchartrain will sooner or later have their way, no matter what the corp of engineers does. The forces of nature can be delayed at great expense but can't be put off forever.

Pouring money down a rat hole won't save New Orleans either.