mayhaps we miss the point.
BTR's post is a word for word transcript of the warning issued by NOAA a day in advance of Katrina's landfall.
This warning was not passed on by the media. They simply didn't believe it.
Hundreds, possibly thousands died because the media edited and downplayed this warning.
The media is now wailing about federal, local, state bungling.. and has yet to take it's share of responsibility for their part in the disaster.
I suspect the guy at NOAA that put that wire out has been censured... and I bet that was the last believable disaster warning that'll ever be issued without higher level censure first.