Is the media guilty of trying to make hurricane Gustav into another Katrina? You be the judge. AP:
NEW ORLEANS – Hurricane Gustav slammed into the heart of Louisiana’s fishing and oil industry with 110 mph winds Monday, delivering only a glancing blow to New Orleans that raised hopes the city would escape the kind of catastrophic flooding brought by Katrina three years ago.
According to NOAA, 110 mph winds are a category 2 hurricane. Far, far short of Katrina. Frankly, if a city built below sea level located near the seacoast can’t ride out the expected storms that hit the area frequently, why is that city there in the first place?
Yeah, that sounds harsh, but frankly, I’m getting sick of the histrionics over this. Yeah there is a storm, yeah it happens down there – every year – and frankly, I have no desire to live below sea level near the sea coast. Why does anyone else?
The reporters acted as if they wanted the levees to break.
They did want them to, syn. It would give them something else to blame on Bush and use against the Republicans in general and McCain in particular before election day.