First, as a project manager, I can tell you that no one ever plans 100% for the least-likely scenario. The likelihood of this kind of weather event happening and the associated aftermath was infinitessimally small. Unfortunately, it did, but any planner will tell you that they plan for the most probable scenario.

Having said that, now, speaking as an observer of people and what they complain about, had the city of New Orleans, the state of Louisiana and the Federal Government put even *one penny* of taxpayer dollars into a multi-level, comprehensive plan (which would have been very expensive) and associated preparation (also very expensive) for a scenario that was very unlikely to occur, the same people who are bitching now about there being “no planning” would have thrown their hands up in the air and said, “Why are they spending ALL THAT MONEY on something that won’t ever happen?”

And that’s all I have to say about that.