the real post...i'm still smarter though

Tonight's top ten list (though it might be fewer than ten if I get tired)...

What we actually know about Hurricane Katrina

1. It happened! http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/08/27/national/main798725.shtml

In the above story, CBS/AP also report that New Orleans still had 20% of its residents within the city limits when she came. Whoops.

2. Thousands of people probably died, but likely not tens of thousands. Hard to treat that as good news, isn't it? http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/09/national/nationalspecial/09cnd-storm.html?hp&ex=1126324800&en=fa6ffd5834d3800e&ei=5094&partner=homepage

3. Everyone in the freakin' world knew that New Orleans was a ticking timebomb, including my meterologist friends, the Tragically Hip, New Orleans' own newspaper, and countless little kids who grew up hearing tales about how unsafe the city was in the case of a hurricane before bedtime.

Except Bush. http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/0,1518,372455,00.html

4. There was a mandatory evacuation ordered before the hurricane's landfall. http://www.news24.com/News24/World/News/0,,2-10-1462_1761538,00.html

5. Kathy was down from level five to four when it hit land. http://www.capitalnews9.com/content/headlines/?ArID=146824&SecID=33

6. FEMA does offer a comprehensive plan for those in the path of a hurricane: http://www.fema.gov/hazards/hurricanes/hurricaf.shtm

7. Unfortunately, in a city where almost a third of the people live(d) below the poverty line, access to the internet and its endless information on preparedness seems as elusive as W when things are going wrong. http://msnbc.msn.com/id/9163091/

8. Things were horrible in Miss. and Alabama too, you know. http://www.cnn.com/2005/WEATHER/08/29/hurricane.katrina/

9. This is the biggest Red Cross project in recorded history. http://www.nola.com/newslogs/breakingtp/index.ssf?/mtlogs/nola_Times-Picayune/archives/2005_08_30.html

10. Fair or not, the media HAVE kept Bush under scrutiny. He has yet to give a national address concerning his plan. http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/0,1518,372455,00.html

Obie, did you really think I was gonna hang myself for littering?