I couldn't listen to it. I suspect most of those people didn't survive. But, in the middle of a cat 5 hurricane, how can you expect the poor police to come rescue you?

Especially when the cops are busy looting.

I didn't recall seeing any footage of Mississippi cops looting.
The death toll wasn't all that devastating in Biloxi, so I'm hoping that a majority of them got through it ok.

Dear God.

I hope people, especially people with children, heed the warnings when they come this week.

I've also heard no reports of cops in Mississippi looting.

Nope. Everything went pretty well in Mississippi and they had towns wiped out as well. The REPUBLICAN governor showed true leadership. Maybe he could teach Blanco a thing or two?

My pet peeve: People with kids decided to stick it out in Miss. You want to play russian roulette with yourself, fine. But don't make your kids pay with their lives for your dumbass decisions.

Even the NYT can't spin this as Bush's fault.

erp

Sure this can be blamed on Bush.... as he did not spend enough money on up-grading the 911 system! An obvious Federal responsibility but since he hates people he spent all that money on Oil. Or pretzals.

Ta da!

DontBotherMeWithFacts

If Bush spent money on pretzels, by law he was obligated to allocate additional funding for beer.

FUCK!! They upgraded it to a Cat 5.

In Florida we are told not to expect emergency service in the middle of a hurricane in places that aren't in evacuation zones. That's just the way it is; it's impossible to get a rescue vehicle out in 100 mph winds.

Probably not any easier in 201 mph winds then, is it?

Rita is gusting to 175 kts.

This is going to be bad.

Oops. I gots NOLAPD on the brain for some reason.

200mph is pretty brisk.

I've done close to 200mph in a head down dive skydiving. Flopping onto your belly to slow down to a "sedate" 120mph or so it takes about 4 seconds to burn off the speed.

I can't imagine sticking around for a 200mph hurricane - that would be Oliver Willis Industrial Grade™ stupid.

Well, one thing about Texas -- they're all armed. So, I don't think we'll see much looting.

...one thing about Texas -- they're all armed

YES we are...