[Dueller]

I'm gonna have to back out of this discussion for a few reasons: it seems to be moving far away from the general premise started by legion, we're now in a pi$$ing contest about how Cali gets it water, and with few exceptions none of you have seen the devastation wrought by Katrina beyond Fox and CNN. I'm from Mississippi, was on the Gulf coast as a volunteer 5 days after it hit and can tell you the devastation defied the senses...what most of you saw on TV cannot compare to the sights (and smells) in person. Hell, I'm 150 miles inland and we got 120 mph winds here...it blew half the roof off my house and we were without power for 10 days.

And Mule, I guess I've figured out what is a worse disaster to our left coast friends...the mass migration west to Kali-forn-I-A in the 30's dust bowl. Of course the WPA and other federal programs were likely shunned by their ancestors...I'm sure they did it all on their own.

But consider this: Hurricane Katrina battered the Gulf Coast of the United States. Katrina and Rita, following one month later, were two of the most intense hurricanes ever recorded in the nation’s history. The storms had a massive physical impact on the land, affecting 90,000 square miles – an area the size of Great Britain. Over 80 percent of the city of New Orleans flooded – an area seven times the size of Manhattan.

More than 1.5 million people were directly affected and more than 800,000 citizens were forced to live outside of their homes – the largest displacement of people since the great Dust Bowl migrations of the 1930s. (Courtesy of our friends at Homeland Security).

I'll sign out with these poignant words from the President: "You're doing a great job, Brownie."