I don't understand this story ("School buses used to evacuate"), where Governor Blanco says they want to do the evacuation without disrupting schools. What's wrong with "School's out. All school-bus drivers in Louisiana: drive to your schools, get your kids home early, then get yo' ass the hell down to New Orleans. If you can get the kids home with fewer buses than you've got, get the rest of the buses the hell down to New Orleans now. People are dying down there"?

Hurricanes happen. Even levee breaches happen, at least with Category 4. But all this Mad Max Beyond Superdome shit should never, ever, have been allowed to happen. Where's the Dunkirk of little boats? Where is the United States Marine Corps?

Peter