Hell, even I knew, in my capacities as a regular everyday college student, that a giant hurricane hitting New Orleans would be this devastating. I saw it on a documentary about hurricanes years ago. Bush knew how much money was requested to fix those levees, and he denied that money to them so he could grab some oil in the Middle East. When you channel funds that could have been used on productive social programs and divert it to destructive murder programs, there really is no excuse. Some day I hope people will wake up to the hateful ideology that neoconservatism is, and the severe problems you run into expecting the corporate media to provide you with a non-distorted image of the world.