New Orleans Can’t Catch a Break

This is depressing:

As the seventh anniversary of Hurricane Katrina’s landfall approaches, New Orleans—and much of the Gulf Coast—is preparing to put into practice the lessons learned from that defining storm.

Tropical Storm Isaac is following a path eerily similar to Katrina’s in 2005.

There are some obvious differences—Isaac is much weaker than Katrina—but the storm nonetheless will require Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi to execute emergency management plans that were partly shaped by Katrina.

Thousands in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama on Monday were leaving their Gulf Coast homes under mandatory evacuation.

Katrina, BP, and now this.

via Balloon Juice http://www.balloon-juice.com/2012/08/27/new-orleans-cant-catch-a-break/