Email: Durant le deluge [JB]

The only people in N[ew] O[rleans] for the first several days were the Coast Guard and local police, Red Cross and Salvation Army. Nobody from the federal government for four days, after Bush ended his vacation (no change in his original plans). I just can't believe the cluelessness and callousness of Bush and his whole cabinet.

Your ideas for a double levy and using school buses to evacuate everyone are excellent.

Now that the Astrodome is full with 11,000, overflow is going to Dallas and San Antonio, El Paso and elsewhere.