Not So Fast New Orleans

Rita
Above you will see the current projection for Tropical Storm (and likely soon to be Hurricane) Rita. Mayor Nagin, Governor Blanco and Mr. Shrub, I hope you are paying attention. Given current gulf conditions which haven't changed a great deal over the past three weeks, you are about to get hit by another major storm.

It was a good move to delay people going back to New Orleans. After all, there isn't electricity or drinkable water, so showing up now would be asking for trouble. A better question might be, can the levees and other systems (none of which are at full capacity currently) handle another major storm? I guess we'll have to wait and see.

If this is a second direct hit though, the question will not be whether to rebuild, that question will be gone. The new question will be where to build.

Just in case though, hurricanes don't discriminate, the center of the projected path? Galveston/Houston. Maybe god is trying to tell us not to burn so much oil by taking it away?