Your History | What if Katrina Had Fizzled Out... But Not Before New Orleans Had Already Been Fully Evacuated?

Oh, sure.

These days everyone's a shade-tree meterologist/FEMA expert.

Unlike the boneheaded local, state and federal officials who lacked such foresight in dealing with Katrina, We The People saw this disaster coming right down Bourbon Street. Had it been up to us, the levees would have been fortified years ago... and the bon temps would have continued to roulez.

Even after the shock of 9/11, the public never lost its focus on the urgent need to build an effective levee system in New Orleans. "Forget terror, forget social security, forget tax relief," we shouted at well-attended Pro-Levee rallies across the nation. "We shall not rest until we've built a levee system big and expensive enough to protect the Big Easy!" Citizens from Maine to California wrote Congress demanding that all local porkbarrel projects be scrapped until the crisis in the Southeast had been averted.

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