But don't you know that global warming will cause a new ice age? So of course there will be fewer hurricanes. Twentieth-Century Fox studios says so! QED

Or was that Kevin Costner in "Waterworld"?

There are too many disaster "docudramas" to keep straight anymore.

/sarcasm

Hey wait a minute... I thought because of EVIL oil and EVIL cars that the earth was getting warmer which meant more powerful and more frequent storms???

You have not crushed my world view. I need to find something else to believe in.

/sarcasim

Gee, I wonder why this is not a graphic on CNN?

I blame Karl Rove.

No I blame Rove!

NO!...I Blame Karl Rove! AND Global Warming!...

At some point some of these refugees are going to have to clean up after themselves and quit expecting everyone to cater to them!...I keep hearing people talk about how the service is better in Houston! I don't mean to sound so snarky! BUT reality needs to set in for these people who are able!... They have to get cleaned up and start over!...Donations are going to help alot! BUT... Blessed are those who will help themselves!... I am doing everything I personally can do to help! I hope everyone will do anything they can!...God Bless them all so much!

Give a man a fish. He will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish. He will eat forever. Is that What you meant Zsa?

You took the words right out of my mouth!...

9/3/05 3:05 P.M. - (AP) BATON ROUGE: The former head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency joined the Louisiana government Saturday to help direct the recovery from Hurricane Katrina.

James Lee Witt, who ran FEMA from 1993 to 2001, said he will stay as long as he as needed.

"He will sit at the table for me, and he will be my voice at the table," Gov. Kathleen Blanco said.

Louisiana officials are getting stretched too thin and need help, she said. "I like to hire the smartest people in the country," she added.

Witt has more than 25 years of disaster management experience. He was appointed to head FEMA in 1993, after President Clinton took office. FEMA had been strongly criticized in 1992 for its slow response to Hurricanes Andrew and Hugo; after Witt took over, it won praise for its vigorous reaction to Midwest floods and the 1994 Northridge earthquake in Los Angeles.

Blanco said that when she told Mike Brown, FEMA's current head, that she hoped to hire him, "he said, `That is absolutely the right thing to do. He will make a huge difference."'

At the National Hurricane Conference in March, Witt said putting FEMA under the Homeland Security Department hurt its ability to deal with natural disasters.

That really wouldn't have mattered, either way. This is a unique situation. Bureaucratic reshuffling wouldn't have made any difference here.