Katrina

[Mark Wright AIA]

Howdy
Three purile observations:

As bad as it is it isn't as bad as they thought it was going to be the
day before the storm came ashore--- a category 5 hurricane landing
square amidships on New Orleans, and overwhelming the levees on the
Mississippi side of town where the water level is substantially higher
than in Lake Ponchartrain. They thought the flooding would be even
worse than it has turned out to be, and they just *left* the poor
people there. Relief forces should have been pre-positioned for instant
deployment. "Marine One" should have landed in the Superdome parking
lot the moment the sun came out.

A few days from now a few upper-management career people at FEMA and in
the Corps of Engineers are going to start using the "we were running
around with our hair on fire" metaphor.

and lastly: Why oh why couldn't the storm have been named Katje?

Terrible situation. This is going to be bad bad bad for a long long
time, nationwide. But I'm sure George is sure that the Lord will
provide, and that the dead are in a better place.
Mark


		
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