Remember those 10,000 body bags NO was supposed to have?

[SmokingJacket]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20277-2004Sep14.html

I wonder where they got to.

[Cobalt Violet]

1. But no one could know this would happen.

:sarcasm:

[rox63]

2. Maybe they sent them to Iraq n/t

[tuvor]

3. So bush had the heads-up a year ago, but he's claiming now that...

...no one could have imagined what has happened??????

New Orleans is often described as a disaster waiting to happen -- it is mostly below sea level, practically surrounded by water, artificially kept dry by pumps and levees, rapidly losing its natural storm protection. But rarely have its leaders sounded so afraid that the wait could be over soon.

"I'm terrified," said Windell Curole, director of the South Lafourche Levee District in the swampy bayous south of the city. "I'm telling you, we've got no elevation. This isn't hyperbole. The only place I can compare us to is Bangladesh."

What a son of a bitch.

[SofaKingLiberal]

4. Unfortunately, that might not be enough.

[SmokingJacket]

5. I agree, and a year ago it sounded like crazy talk. nt

[SaveAmerica]

6. Only city the Red Cross won't set up emergency shelters?

"The stranded will not be able to turn to the Red Cross, because New Orleans is the only city in which the relief agency refuses to set up emergency storm shelters, to ensure the safety of its own staff. Even if a 30-foot-high wall of water crashes through the French Quarter -- Maestri's worst-case scenario -- stranded residents will be on their own"

From that article