Better safe than sorry.........I remember some guy named Nagin who regretted not issuing a SOE until it was too late.
Actually, that was Governor Blanco's decision, which she didn't make even after Bush requesting she does. Mayor Nagin high-tailed it out of New Orleans as Katrina was reaching land fall.
Some things about Katrina I remember as I watched it:
1. Bush asked Gov. Blanco to declare a State of Emergency 2 days in advance so as to expedite fedgov FEMA. She didn't;
2. Mayor Nagin espoused unintelligible rhetoric;
3. The idiots of the Nawlins suburbs didn't leave when told the worse hurricane in decades was bearing down, when so many did;
4. The photos of the numerous school buses sitting idle that could have evacuated many of those idiots;
5. Of course, the looting, including some Nawlin's cops;
6. The gun confiscation;
7. The flight of the ghettoe dwellers to Texas and the increased crime they experienced.
8. The reported many rapes and murders in the Super Dome that proved later not to have happened.
And last, but not least, the MSM bemoaning the poor citizens of Nawlins, especially cry-baby Whorealdo holding some black child in his arms asking where is the help from Washington with his little hurt puppy dog look. Oh, whoa is us, said the drama queen. He should have been asking why Blanco and Nagin weren't doing ANYTHING!
Later, he should have been asking why Blanco didn't request fedgov assistance as is law, and why Nagin left when the SHTF. I still don't get why Fox News occasionally has that racist pr*ck on their channel.