Photos: Isaac's Slow-Moving Fury

THERE IS ONE HUGE THING WE CAN DO TO CHANGE THIS. LEGALIZE HEMP AND STOP THE DE-FORESTING OF THE WORLD......READ ABOUT IT, PLZ DONT SAY, OH ITS POT,THEY WANT POT, READ, PLEASE ABOUT THE HEMP MOVEMENT THAT CAN SAVE SO MANY TREES WITH SO LITTLE BUT, AS USUAL, THE BIG MONEY FROM THE BIG TIMBER HAS A BIG LOBBYIST AS DO ALL THE BIG MONEY PEEPS TO INSURE THINGS ARE VOTED AS THEY CHOSE. NOT AS WE CHOSE, WE THE PEOPLE.........IF THE GLOBAL WARMING ISNT REAL TO YOU NOW, IT WONT EVER BE. AND FOR THE SAKE OF YOUR CHILDREN, AT LEAST, READ ABOUT HEMP AND HOW WE COULD BECOME A COUNTRY THAT DOES NOT RELY ON FOREIGN OIL, CONSEQUENTLY NO MORE WAR OVER OIL............LEGALIZE HEMP, HELP UN DO THE DE-FORESTING.........THATS WHAT SHOULD BE LEARNED FROM ALL THESE "WORST IN HISTORY" STORMS, TORNADOS, FIRES, MUDSLIDES, EARTHQUAKES.................PLEASE JUST OPEN YOUR MIND ENOUGH TO JUST READ.......BLESSINGS AND PRAYERS TO ALL, AND PRAYERS FOR THE HEALING OF THE EARTH, AND ITS PEOPLES......

@ ms3FANde: Every time I read a post like that, I know it is someone that has either never truly been in every area of NO, or and you have for whatever reason, not had to comprehend the level of poverty that exists and has always existed there. Some people don't have an extra $50 let's say, actually, let's be more honest, some have no extra money, and you are talking about a huge amount of people no matter the 3or4 days of warning, they cant all magically produce enough money to be eating out, paying for rooms, go visit the 9th Ward although I wish you could have seen it before Katrina, there are still some there....but all this talk about people leaving is uneducated and just one more emotional beating for the survivors of the worst Hurricane in History, and the ones that survived in 2004 Ivan which was coming in as a Katrina but came down a notch and hit pensacola straight on, then 3 more back to back and when we thought we could take a breath one year and one day nearly to the day Ivan hit, Katrina hit from LA and Mississippi,not that stretch of land between LA and blah blah, I heard with my own ears a reporter say that, and MS being on the East and East is always Worst, got a beating again also. As did Bayou La Batre, AL and FL...Find your compassion and look around at your home and loved ones and imagine losing it all.....then u might find ur heart....people are still emotionally devastated from Katrina, some will never recover, many are working as hard as they can building a town called Gulfport, but my Gulfport is gone and the loss cannot be rebuilt. You dont understand what u r talking about regarding evacuation. I am a Mississippian. I feel that gives me the right to say what I have said. I live less than 2 hours away now, but my family is there and we dont have such a problem because we have no levees. we just get blasted and everything sucked out to who knows where. There are some people that could have left but did not. But the big numbers of people that live in the kind of poverty you see in all these states, is you live in any of them, you cannot see them. Or comprehend how their lives are........blessings to all and I pray that none of you go thru the Worst Hurricane, Tornado, Oil Spill and the grief and suffering that goes thru losing all, that were your majority of your life's memories. I will pray that for you and all Peoples.

I agree with drebenote: That Louisiana needs to recreate their towns like Venice or just move the peoples to other places in higher lands. Take all the money from the "Pork Barrel" spending fund and remake the entire State of Louisiana and some others too. Like Flint, MI, Camden, NJ, Richmond, VA and many many others that probably need to be jacked up and a Brand New City or Town ran up under the old one!! Let's see if good-ole-boy Romney can and will do that off the backs of the people and now President Obama's Instituted unimplemented plans!!! The White Rich are always looking for a way to shine off the backs of others and have the unmitigated Gaul to take the credit. But God!!

Well, it is time to move. New Orleans needs to relocate many of its citizens to HIGHER GROUND. Dig out the dirt you can and create a Venice effect and new water front property. Raise the towns or move.

Armchair quarterbacks always have the answer, right? I can't see where belittling them or questioning their IQ helps at all. Those comments show exactly who and what YOU are.

Interesting comments and I agree with some parts of ALL of them. Yes it' seems more logical to use the facts and at the same time, yes, you hope that hopefulness and mercy will come your way as well. There are all different types of people and personalities and everyone tries there best with what their truth is. The real point is that something "bad" came their way, everyone tried to make the best decision for their selves and some choices clearly didnt work out. We always have different scales of intellectualism vs emotionalism in different circumstances. Some apply it better than others> still need to have compassion, no one wants their lives ruined or their loved ones hurt.

I look at it in a different light:
We have cars that can almost park themselves!
We have stealth bombers!
We have plazma TV's!
Several space probes that are about to leave the solar system altogether and are still sending back signals!!
We have telescopes that can see billions of years back in time!
We have windows that don't need curtains!
Jumbo jets that can carry almost 500 passengers at once!
Computer hardrives not much bigger than a #10 envelope that have the capacity to hold the written contents of the Library of congress!
No we are not at the stage where we can prevent hurricanes, but you would think science, industry and technology would have the ability to100% eliminate its effect!!
Come on people, put on your thinking caps and solve this EASY problem!!
And NO, I am NOT going to try and place the blame on Obama!!!

All the more reason to get out when a Hurricane is anywhere within the path of destruction. They do turn directions after all. I live in Louisiana. I know how it is when a storm stalls and it rains in one area for days so I would think if I was told to evacuate that I would get the hell out. I agree with the Arizona Law. I am tired of seeing it over and over people choosing to stay and then are having to be plucked off their roof tops. Category 1 or not, you still can't predict storms when they hit land. They stall, you have storm surges, you have to factor in all the things that can happen. The levee's held but N.O. was hit with more rain, that went over the levee's. People wake up. When your told to get out, get out and you won't be stranded on a roof top in the rain waiting for someone to come help. Yes I feel sorry for everyone that is stranded and having problems right now but enough is enough. 3 or 4 days of warnings was plenty of enough time to get out. Yes New Orleans is on a flood plain, we've known this for years and years. This isn't something new. It's still a hurricane.

This is still a nasty hit. A Church nearly submerged? Out of the Fed levee area? They really need to get their act completely together because if it's every 7 years, there's more to come & it could be worse. Bad location to own a home I must admit..

Okay. I keep seeing the same comment "get out" followed by some choice words. Is the evacuation all inclusive, all expenses paid? Just curious.