The Real Story Here

1. Logistically: the rescue effort was lost before it began. The people of New Orleans, who have knowingly lived under sea level protected only by levees since the 1700s, needed information on what to do in a flood emergency, they needed emergency equipment on hand, they needed stores of food and water, and they needed to be drilled regularly to make sure everyone knew what to do and had on hand what was needed to survive. None of this was done.
   
2. Racially: the black mayor who left the poorest of his people exposed to the ravages of flood, then blamed it on the white man.
   
3. Liberally: the female governor who did nothing to save anyone.  She's in the vanguard of numerous such public officials picked for critical positions because of their claim to victimhood, not because they can get anything done, meaning more will die across the country when crisis hits.
   
4. Catastrophically: while all eyes are on the almost biblical destruction of a major darling city, Alabama and Mississippi, who've also suffered an enormous, unprecedented blow, go largely unnoticed.
   
5. Futuristically: W. will be known as "The Man Who Rebuilt New Orleans". End of story.
   
6. Technologically: in the rush to rebuild New Orleans, all emphasis will be on a whiz-bang, high-tech, show-off levee system, which cannot be made 100% fail-safe, while the low-tech, retro-tech, informational, emergency equipment, safety pack, regularly-drilled people stuff needed to keep the masses from harm will be ignored (again).