womzilla | One Year Ago

. . . indifference, incompetence, and an unassailable sense of entitlement nearly killed one of the United States' most important cities.

Go read the step-by-step account of the disaster.

Go watch this musical howl. (And to the song which inspired it, and of the disaster which remade America.)

Go read.

New Orleans isn't optional; as long as the Mississippi flows into the Gulf of Mexico, there will be a city near its mouth, and the narrow spit of land between Lake Pontchartrain and the river is the most sensible place for it. New Orleans is a national treasure in large part because it is a national resource. We can't act like it was a mistake to build there, and we can't turn away from the task of rebuilding.

And we can't let the people who tried to kill it get away clean.