If anyone was watching the weather channel prior to landfall, Max Mayfield said it best when being interviewd by Larry King about the difference between a CAT 5 or CAT 4, Max replied:
Well it;s like being hit by a freight train, or getting runned over by an eighteen wheeler, both outcomes are not good. Why am I pointing this out!

Well, FNC, CNN and others fevorishly went on the air and said that N.O escape a direct hit. Damage not as bad. When all the local officials were stating that this was going to be a catastrophy. Regardless where the eye came ashore, Max Mayfield said it was going to be bad, for everone, not only N.O. And now look at what we have in N.O., a major catastrophy on thier hands. This is not to say that the other areas aren't as bad, because we all know that outcome. A horrific scene up and down the Gulf Coast. Utterly un-imagineable scenes of devistation.