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Pastimes : Hurricane Katrina – Historical Perspective -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ilaine who wrote (37)	9/7/2005 9:57:21 PM
From: Cisco	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 40

And how's this for preparation? Cops were told not to work on the day Katrina hit, one officer told The New York Times, but "to come in the next day, to save money on their budget." nydailynews.com The plain fact is, lives were needlessly lost in New Orleans due to the failure of Louisiana's governor, Kathleen Blanco, and the city's mayor, Ray Nagin. . . . Detailed written plans were already in place to evacuate more than a million people. The plans projected that 300,000 people would need transportation in the event of a hurricane like Katrina. If the plans had been implemented, thousands of lives would likely have been saved. opinionjournal.com