From the 'Sent Mail': Katrina nears

From: Mighty Favog
To: ***@***.com
Date: Sunday, August 28, 2005 00:03
Subject: It doesn't get worse than this . . . at least short of Armageddon


Y'all,


Amid the horror of contemplating what may be about to happen here are public-policy considerations that are going to wash across the country like a storm surge: What happens if we lose an entire major American city?

-- How do we maintain refugee camps for what could be hundreds of thousands of people for God knows how long?

-- Where do we put them all?

-- What happens to the rest of the country when we lose as much oil and gasoline production as we're about to lose?

-- When those supplies are cut off indefinitely?

-- When there's no fuel-oil shipments because there's no more Port of New Orleans -- the second biggest in the U.S.?

-- When ag, raw-material and manufactured-goods imports and exports on the Mississippi are disrupted for who knows how long?

-- Is the military prepared (and do we have enough of it left?) to go in and immediately double the size of the Port of Baton Rouge?

-- Will we, in a month, be paying $5 a gallon for gas, and will that tank the whole economy?

-- Is the U.S. government prepared to rebuild New Orleans?

-- What happens to the insurance industry if the worst happens here?


Sleep tight,

Favog