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Three years to the day Hurricane Katrina made landfall, another storm is barreling toward the Louisiana coast. Are the manmade defenses around New Orleans prepared for Gustav? Afraid not. Are the marshes and cypress swamps that once provided natural protection for the Louisiana coast still vanishing? Afraid so. How should local residents feel after a manmade catastrophe followed by three years of promises? Afraid, period...
...allies in the political world were planning to repeat and extend some of those mistakes along the entire Louisiana coast. I'm thrilled to report that over the last year, the Corps has gently applied the brakes to those plans. That won't save the coast from Gustav; the storm is coming so soon after Katrina that there isn't much else to do except hope it weakens or misses. But over the next year, decisions about the coast could determine whether southern Louisiana can be sustainable, or whether the Katrinas and Gustavs of the future will obliterate...
Much of this week, I've watched for New Orleans' painfully slow post-Katrina recovery to become a prime-time talking point from the Democratic National Convention's podium. Friday, after all, marks the third anniversary of the hurricane's arrival, and another powerful storm, Gustav, appears to be barreling toward my hometown...
...Tropical Storm Gustav is coming. Already, Bobby Jindal, Louisiana's new, young governor, has declared a state of emergency. C. Ray Nagin, New Orleans' mayor, dashed back from Denver to help coordinate his city's evacuation plans. Yesterday, my mom booked my 70-something grandparents on flights to Dallas, where they'll stay with relatives. I reserved hotel rooms for my folks in Alabama in case they need them. My mom is a hard-core Barack Obama supporter who wants to hear him say at Denver's Invesco Field "We're going to rebuild New Orleans, at whatever cost, whatever...
...Republicans to seriously address Katrina at their own convention in St. Paul. Katrina is a reminder of the Bush Administration's often bungled, uncompassionate response. So what will it take to get New Orleans back on the agenda? I am praying that the answer does not have to be Gustav...