Quote Originally Posted by Don Corleone
Well, call me a paranoid, crackpot psycho, but we haven't exactly guarded our borders very tightly for the past 4 years. I'm not claiming I have any proof or that my mind is made up or anything. I'm just saying I wouldn't be surprised to learn that a terrorist cell headed down to the Big Easy once a confirmed hit by Katrina was known.
If so, they have a rapid response efficiency that far outstrips our own nation's. Just getting to the levies during/after the storm would have been nearly impossible.Why send in terrorists to do what the storm would do for them? Doesn't make sense.

Those levies shouldn't have held. Katrina's drift to the East saved them, and that was in the last few hours when travel was not possible. I was SHOCKED (and relieved) to hear that they had not failed during the initial surge. I honestly believed New Orleans was going to completely flood during the storm, with about 100,000+ casualties, instead they were on the weak side of the storm.

We got lucky, the hit should have been much worse. You are being fooled by the focus on New Orleans. That is just part of the picture. Whole communities all around no longer exist. While many of the people survived there are no homes. Some of these were communities of 20,000+.