I don't think anyone anticipated the breach of the levees.

—President Bush on ABC's Good Morning America, Sept. 1, 2005

I hate being played for a fool.

"We pretty much knew this would happen somewhere along the line," Gregory W. Stone, director of the Coastal Studies Institute at Louisiana State University, said Thursday.

Wow, I guess Gregory should have called GW to let him know there was a problem.

There have been so many studies, journal articals, etc. written about the scenerio that played out in New Orleans, that it makes it all the more tragic. I can't comprehend that there wasn't even an evacuation plan in place. Go out on the net and look up information on Hurricane Pam.

This was published in National Geographic 11 months ago. Read through the whole thing. There is also a lot of information about oil and gas industries.

http://www3.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0410/feature5/index.html

Aside from Playboy, is there another magazine as beautiful as National Geographic?