I don't know about the rest of you, but I am so tired of the way that the difficulties of the situation on the gulf coast are being portrayed. Tell me if I am right or not...there are some things you just can't be prepared for. I would say that the scope of the difficulties that have transpired in New Orleans cannot be prepared for. How do you anticipate that people would be shooting at helicopters and people and making it impossible to get people out of the hospitals and rescued and evacuated? How do you anticipate and prepare for people dumping over and commandeering rescue boats? How do you anticipate that the criminal element (which, by the way, has always been there killing and raping and stealing, etc.) would take advantage of those who are suffering and the lack of authority in the city? How can you anticipate all that has happened? You can't! I believe that those who are making decisions are making the best decisions they can based on the info they have available at any given time. You can't always anticipate or predict the way things are going to happen. You can guess at how things may go and what you need to do to be prepared, but there is no way anyone would have guessed at some of what has occured in the New Orleans area. Lets not be so quick to judge and attempt to fix blame. Look for ways to be part of solutions and find ways we can help. All of this is nobody's fault...it is what it is. A hurricane that hit the most vulnerable spot in America to hurricanes. Pray for those directly effected.