Well, so far as the location of New Orleans goes..well. New Orleans was a disaster waiting to happen and would have happened whether Bush was in charge of things or not. If you want a chill to go up your spine read the October 2004 National Geographic and the article " Gone With The Water " Mind this was written ten months prior to Hurricane Katrina.

" Thousands drowned in the murky brew that was soon contaminated by sewage and industrial waste. Thousands more who survived the flood later perished from dehydration and disease as they waited to be rescued. It took two months to pump the city dry and by then the Big Easy was buried under a blanket of putrid sediment, a million people were homeless, and 50,000 were dead. It was the worst natural disaster in the history of the United States " This is from the article and this was the worst case scenario from a Category Five storm directly hitting the city with a storm surge of about 18 feet. The article also states that the Red Cross no longer opens hurricane shelters in NO because it is such a high risk area.

also to consider there is the Louisiana Coastal Area project that the Bush administration didn't seem to like too much. The stats in the article said it was estimated to cost up to 14 billion dollars over a period of 30 years. Apparently the BA wanted to go with two billion dollars over the next ten years to fund the most promising projects and as of the time period of the article, Congress hadn't yet authorized the money.

regardless home is home...even if it's in a basin eight feet below sea level...and really maybe you can't afford to call anywhere else home..nor a TV, radio, a reliable means of transportation and the like. My uncle has a sister in NO, she and all those in the medical line of work were on mandatory lockdown in the hospitals in NO...they anticipated a disaster coming and they were right.

I don't know, but I think bad as it is now it could have been much much worse. I've been through a few nasty hurricanes and I've been lucky I reckon. Survival is all that really matters now for those poor folks and whatever Bush did or did not do isn't going to matter one little bit to them, so I say do what you can to help and that's all I think I want to say on it.