Katrina

[ladysilverice]

Well, just to input my opinion, you can't mobilize an army every time it looks like a hurricane might come ashore and wreck things. Mobilizing an army takes ALOT of time and money... the kind of money that taxpayers complain about. So really there isn't any way to know what a storm is going to do and how it's going to effect a certain area. I don't think anyone thought the levey's were going to break.
One thought though... I thought that right after 9/11 that NO was a high risk target area because of the two facts that it WAS a potentially dangerous levey and it WAS a high trafficed port where goods wearn't checked until already in port. You would think that they would have done something way way way back to fortify the leveys or do something to protect them. HOWEVER I don't think comparing 9/11 and this tragedy right now is exactly fair because of the differences in culture and manpower. People were at least able to get right up close to the towers right after it happened. Some of the roads in NO are still unaccessable.
Not to be argumentative either, but I think the government is a little stretched as it is with their attention split both in NO and in Iraq. With troops mobilized in Iraq and those countries, it's gonna cost more to mobilize reserves and stuff to fix things stateside.