News coverage focusing on the negative? I'm shocked, nay amazed that this is happening. Why should something like this be given any different treatment than they do anything else?

The miracle in this is that there are as few people in Nawlins as there are. For a city of 500K to be evacuated as it was is amazing. The highest number I've heard for people who didn't make it out is 100K, which means 80% of the people in the city made it out.

The most disgusting part of the coverage I've seen is the opinion columns by certain people who shall remain nameless who have said that the fact that Katrina hit the city at all is the fault of the Republican Party, George W. Bush Himself, or various other versions of the same line. A Kuwait official was quoted as saying that the Hurricane was a warrior from Allah. Okay, Shiek, next time you're invaded and crying for help, go somewhere else.

To those who say the Government isn't doing enough, remember, the government is hamstrung by laws preventing the Federal Government from doing many things, which in normal times is great. Just remember that the laws you pass to keep the federal government out of your backyard may also prevent them from coming in to save your tail when the excrement hits the rotary oscillator. Saying it's anyone's FAULT is pointless. Let's get the mess cleaned up, and figure out how we can avoid the same mess the next time. All option should be on the table, up to and including completely moving New Orleans from where it is to a new site. Rebulding a city that's 7 feet below sea level every few years (remember, it floods fairly routinely) seems rather pointless.