Hmmm...already blaming the government eh? I don't believe any bigger levy (short of the biggest construction project ever undertaken by man) would've saved New Orleans from a Catagory 5. You just gotta run from those bad boys. Perhaps a mass exodus could've been more organized, yet evacuating a 100's of thousands of people within 2 days, is still pretty unrealistic. Of course there's always those who have selective memory of the weaker storms and just hope to ride it out. I believe Houston and other surrounding states/cities are stepping up as the enormity of this hits. Despite the news reports, the Astrodome is still accepting refugees, and they just opened the Reliant Center up next door as well. I'm dropping by there tonight on my way out of town to donate some clothes. Hope they like Zep and Floyd tees! :D