Welcome to the 2005 version of the Grapes of Wrath, as this group of refugees from New Orleans attempts to take a bus to Houma, Louisiana.

Make it two in a row the dictator ignored warnings of dire events.

And for fun I will add this.

New Orleans is sinking.
And its main buffer from a hurricane, the protective Mississippi River delta, is quickly eroding away, leaving the historic city perilously close to disaster.
So vulnerable, in fact, that earlier this year the Federal Emergency Management Agency ranked the potential damage to New Orleans as among the three likeliest, most castastrophic disasters facing this country.
The other two? A massive earthquake in San Francisco, and, almost prophetically, a terrorist attack on New York City.
The New Orleans hurricane scenario may be the deadliest of all.
In the face of an approaching storm, scientists say, the city's less-than-adequate evacuation routes would strand 250,000 people or more, and probably kill one of 10 left behind as the city drowned under 20 feet of water. Thousands of refugees could land in Houston.
Economically, the toll would be shattering.
Southern Louisiana produces one-third of the country's seafood, one-fifth of its oil and one-quarter of its natural gas. The city's tourism, lifeblood of the French Quarter, would cease to exist. The Big Easy might never recover.

(Matt Stamey/The Courier)

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If I hear any more comparisons between this catastrophe and 9/11 I am going to scream.

They aren't even remotely similar. 9/11, as bad as it was, was NOTHING like this. This disaster is like something that would happen in Calcutta or some other third world city. And that's not to mention the considerable damage being done to the economy with over 1 MILLION homeless people.

The only other event comparable to this disaster is the Dust Bowl of the 1930s, when hundreds of thousands of families had to move away because of the weather conditions.