hindsight is easy.

IF New Orleans knew that a natural disaster like this was possible...(they did)..and if they knew they might not get more than a 48 hour warning in a worst case scenario....(they knew)...then money, buses, and a contingency plan could have been done long before (it wasn't)

they knew, for instance, that 20% of the population could NOT get out...poverty...etc....

the problem is that the money to have that capacity was not there...and the priority was not there....

If people before Katrina tried to get New Orleans to spend the money to develop a system to evacuate the city....who would listen?...who would legislate that?...the money wasn't there....would the federal government have done it?...

and interestingly....eliminate one aircraft carrier...and more than enough money was there...more than enough....

it's a question of wanting to build a city to protect against disasters...or not wanting to....

human error at the government level...and no one person is responsible...just another example of misplaced priorities...

plenty of money for bombs and guns and aircraft carriers....

not enough to protect a city against a terror they knew was coming one day....

so blaming them now is pointless. They won't learn....when Pompeii's smoke billowed...and fumed...many heard it..many knew the Volcano might explode.....did they evacuate? No...why?....
the old adage...

It won't happen to me