will the National Hurricane Center retired the name? Dont they usually do for monster storms such as Katrina and Camille?

Hurricane Katrina video from Slidell, LA as a 15 foot storm surge battered the area. TornadoVideos.net storm chasers were trapped on a second floor balcony in Slidell before catching a ride on a fishing boat, and hitch-hiking back to Oklahoma City. Check out TornadoVideos.net for more insane tornado and hurricane footage.

Hmm..Another "terrorist" attack? A Katrina-like disaster? In my opinion…its for the next self-inflicted wound commited by our government to be blamed on terrorists…but what do YOU think?
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/march2008/020308Prison.htm

Prison’s for your families. How does that sound? atleast they won’t split you up before they shoot you down.

Ride Hamilton shows the FIRST intense video excerpt from his in-progress Hurricane Katrina Documentary. The only tapestry of stories filmed LIVE as it was and STILL IS happening. It covers in tragic, emotional, and honest detail - everyday of the storm from DAY ONE to TODAY. THIS PODCAST: Ride stands on Lake Pontchartrain on the eve of Katrina. The next day, Ride grabs his cameras and starts filming. Quickly he discovers everything save a few neighborhoods is destroyed or flooded. He meets …

Watching the Saubat’s house flood in Chalmette during Hurricane Katrina. See the water go from 0 to 14ft. My neighbor stayed for the hurricane and video taped my house for as long as possible. Thanks to Mr. Ray Dacula.

footage that george bush didn’t want the public to see!!

EDWARDS Makes Dumbest Statement Ever by a Presidential Candidate

RUSH: To the audio sound bites. We’re going back to the Democrat debate yesterday. The theme of the debate was that we should be talking with our enemies. The Breck Girl said that he’s going to sit down at the table with Iran and make a proposal.

EDWARDS: I think we have a clear path for America and for — for our friends on Iran, and that path is to work with our friends in Europe to put up a choice between carrots and sticks on the table for the Iranian people.

RUSH: Okay. When it comes to the real enemy, though, Edwards will not negotiate with evil, the drug companies. He will not appear on Fox News. But he will indeed go talk to the mullocracy, if you will, Ahmadinejad in Iran.

EDWARDS: There’s a fundamental question here. Whether you believe, whether voters believe the way we’re going to have universal health care is to deal with those people, to make a deal with them. I don’t. I don’t think it will work.

RUSH: Universal health care, single payer, that means everybody pays for everybody’s health care in the form of much higher taxes and a rotten system that would result from it. But he doesn’t want to get the drug companies involved; not going to talk to them; can’t be done; can’t strike a deal with evil pharmacies; can’t strike a deal with Big Pharma, can’t do it, no, no, no. We can go talk to Iran. We go talk to Castro. We can talk to all these people, but we can’t talk to the drug companies, can’t talk to fellow Americans. They are the real enemy. He was also asked a question from an e-mailer. Stephanopoulos read it. E-mail question from Seth Ford of South Jordan, Utah. "My question is to understand each candidate’s view of a personal God. Do they believe that through the power of prayer, disasters like Katrina or the Minnesota bridge collapse could have been prevented or lessened?"

EDWARDS: The answer to the question is no. I don’t — I — I — I prayed before my 16-year-old son died, I prayed before Elizabeth was diagnosed with cancer. I think there are some things that are beyond our control, and I think it is enormously important to look to God, and in my case, Christ, for guidance and for wisdom, but I don’t think you can prevent bad things from happening through prayer.

RUSH: All right. You may not be able to prevent bad things from happening through prayer, but you can make brilliant and great things happen by voting Democrat. October 11th, 2004, on the campaign trail.

EDWARDS: When John Kerry is president, people like Christopher Reeve are going to walk, get up out of that wheelchair and walk again.

RUSH: Right. So we’re not going to pray to God for anything, no, no, no, but Democrats are going to do these be miracles. Democrats can stop the bridge collapses. Democrats can stop Hurricane Katrina. Democrats could re-steer that after Bush and Rove are steering it right into New Orleans and Minneapolis. But all of this, folks, is really insignificant compared to a story on an ABC blog that I found over the weekend. ABC News’ Rick Klein reports, "When an Iowa resident asked former Senator John Edwards whether the US should follow the Cuban health care model, Edwards deflected the question, saying he didn’t know enough to answer it." The Breck Girl said, "Well, I’m going to be honest with you, I don’t know a lot about Cuba’s health care system. Is it a government-run system?" Now, folks, this is perhaps the dumbest thing a political candidate has ever said. Yeah, ABC. "He also flip-flopped in the same appearance whether he had seen Sicko or not. First he said he had, and then he said he hadn’t."

Why do you have to see Sicko to know what Cuba’s health care system is? This is worse than Dukakis and the tank. This is worse than Dan Quayle spelling potato with an e on it. This ought to disqualify him. He doesn’t know what Cuba’s health care system is? "Is it a government-run system?" I think this comes close to Gerald Ford with that faux pas in his debate where he said that the Eastern bloc of countries was not under Soviet domination. A guy running for president, we just heard a bite, talking about universal health care, he will not talk to the drug companies about it; he’ll go meet with Iran and offer them a deal; we can’t deal with real Americans; can’t deal with the drug companies. But he doesn’t even know what type of health care system Cuba has, when by reputation it’s the best in the world, according to people on his side of the aisle.

I'm just thinking about the recent three years - The Tsunami in Thailand, Katrina, the cyclone in Myanmar and now the earthquake in China. Additionally, the weather patterns appear more unpredictable and destructive. Is it too simplistic to blame it all on global warming trends due to the unrestrained burning of fossil fuels?

I recently came across this video blog on youtube where this girl was ranting about why in the F*** should taxpayers have to pay for those who chose not to leave before Hurricane Ike hit Texas.I thought she was way out of line and showed not even an ounce of compassion for human life and the well being of others.I live in Houston, although we didn’t suffer that much damage other than a couple of nights without power thankfully.When Rita and Katrina hit, our city and surrounding cities opened up our hearts, our homes and our wallets to help out any way we could.There are still a lot of the same people here who chose to call Houston home but some are still getting help from the government with housing and food stamps.My point is that no matter who or what,we still have to pay taxes like it or not.Check this out.What do you think. Go to youtube and look for “re-ur a slut”.This person makes such a fool of herself with the way she talks about people.

Oh,I wouldn't say I was being naieve.I understand that folks need to try to get their lives back on track but there are actually people here who really need the help.Some have been out of work since the storm hit due to no power yet when they go ask for help they get turned down because they're told they "make too much money" and don't qualify for any help at all.Then we have those people here from Louisianna still standing in lines asking for assistance and getting it then driving off in their expensive cars to their new HUD homes.My friend has four kids and was turned away because her husband makes too much yet,he works in a building with no power for the past two and a half weeks.They still have no power at home.

Hurricane Katrina as it hits the Gulf Coast, shot by Warren Faidley. Faidley, recently called America’s “Top Storm Chaser” by MSNBC, is one of the few journalists and professional photographers who has witnessed and survived both an F-5 tornado and a category 5 hurricane. Warren is a best-selling author, motion picture consultant (Twister) and has appeared as a news consultant for CNN and Fox News. He is recognized as one of the top hands-on severe weather exerts. Unlike most storm chasers …

I'm interested in comparing poverty rates before and after Katrina in the affected counties but am having trouble getting good data. Can anyone help with this? Thanks.