>>>>http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/index.shtml
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>>>>Earl is currently 135mph, 931mb Category 4. Currently forecast to skirt the US SE coast, but the track has been adjusted slightly westward over the last few days.
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>>>The category estimate has been increasing by the day. Usually it's the other way around, they lose steam.
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>>>Katrina was not thought to be a particularly severe hurricane until it made landfall.
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>>No, that's not correct. It was a huge Category 5 storm, according to Wikipedia the 6th strongest Atlantic storm on record: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Katrina
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>>At the time I posted a message here that at one point its eye was as large as Lake Okeechobee in Florida: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Katrina-noaaGOES12.jpg
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>And there were warnings and evacuation orders galore that were ignored, and resources that would have saved lives sat because nobody cared to do anything to help themselves.
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>They (including police) did help themselves after the storm passed - to shoes, TVs, sporting goods, guns, etc since nobody was around to keep order. Pretty classy to shoot at rescue crews to keep them out of your looting areas too.
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>Then they blamed the gub-mint (federal of course, since the local gub-mint was only good for pointing fingers) and waited for $$ and new stuff.
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>Watching one of the 5th anniversary newscasts the other night I thought it was pretty typical listening to people b1tch about debris and rubble that was still in some neighborhoods that the gub-mint hasn't cleaned up for them.

Yes, there was some crap that should not have happened. The Superdome was a hellhole. What you are conveniently forgetting is the city was UNDERWATER and lots of residents didn't have cars to jump into like you or I would have. The buses that were supposed to come didn't come. I met some of the evacuees (we weren't supposed to use that word) and saw some of the devastation personally. You are being just plain ignorant.