He knew

[ximinez]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060302/ap_on_go_pr_wh/katrina_video

WASHINGTON - On the eve of Hurricane Katrina's fateful landfall, President Bush was confident. His homeland security chief appeared relaxed. And warnings of the coming destruction — breached or overrun levees, deaths at the New Orleans Superdome and overwhelming needs for post-storm rescues — were delivered in dramatic terms to all involved. All of it was captured on videotape.

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[tealfroglette.livejournal.com]

everybody sorta knew it was a possibility during the storm if it hit directly, including the climatologists, meterologists, etc.

i'd been wearing my 'new orleans' shirts no stop in solidarity and had offered my home as evac spots for four new orlenean people, their dog and their two cats. I ten eastbound was closed tho, so they had to go north and their car broke down in north alabama where they stayed before heading to relatives in texas.

when on monday they showed us here local coverage and weather channel coverage, it had held, everybody was safe, we were celebratory. We amphibians had no idea that the levees were in such bad shape.

It wasn't until much later that evening we even heard that the levees were going.

At least with hurricanes, unlike tornadoes or some earthquakes there's warning, and that's the trouble with ignoring the warnings by people and by the folks in the govnt.