The thing that I find most amazing and terrifying is the idea of evacuating a whole city, and the fact that they actually did manage to get a large majority of the people to leave. But that was with a few days notice... what happens when you don't have those few days?

as for New Orleans, I am an optimist, and I believe that the city will be rebuilt. It will not be easy, and the people who will suffer the most are the ones who can afford to suffer the least, but I think in the end human ingenuity will win out, and perhaps we will have a little more respect for nature when we are done.