[Born Conservative]

At the Audubon Zoo, only three of 1,400 animals died. It has the good fortune of being located on some of the city's highest ground, but it also had a disaster plan for the animals that seemed to work better than the city's plan for humans. The only fatalities so far were two otters and a raccoon, zoo curator Dan Maloney said Sunday.

Too bad Mr. Maloney wasn't the Mayor last week...

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Indeed!

[Dems_R_Losers]

There is also a report of a hospital in Bay St. Louis, MS, which took a direct hit from Katrina, staying in operation through the storm and taking in injured and sick people afterward. This hospital had an emergency plan and executed it, and apparently did have a generator on an upper floor and stockplies of food and water. None of the hospitals in New Orleans did. The lack of preparation and execution of emergency plans in New Olreans is continuing to astonish me.