"nobody ever could have predicted..."

[anarch]

Check out some of the citations from an article from 2004/Hurricane Ivan, as quoted on TomDispatch/ZNet:

http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=72&ItemID=8661

Here's the first paragraph:

"The headline was: "Direct hit in New Orleans could mean a modern Atlantis," and the first paragraph of the story read: "More than 1.2 million people in metropolitan New Orleans were warned to get out Tuesday as 140-mph hurricane churned toward the Gulf Coast, threatening to submerge this below-sea-level city in what could be the most disastrous storm to hit in nearly 40 years." That was USA Today and the only catch was -- the piece had been written on September 14, 2004 as Hurricane Ivan seemed to be barreling toward New Orleans."

[BlueEyedSon]

1. No one could predict 9/11 either

[auburngrad82]

2. FEMA predicted it way back in 2001

A class 5 hurricane, a catastrophic earthquake in California and another terrorist attack in New York were the three most likely events that they would have to respond to.

http://www.hurricane.lsu.edu/_in_the_news/houston.htm

http://heynewt.mydd.com/story/2005/8/31/214547/306

http://writersontheloose.com/writers/JMartin/index.cfm?story=19164

Notice that the date on the first link is from 12/1/2001.