Hurricane Preparedness Drill: Today FEMA decided to hold an emergency preparedness drill in New Orleans to test the effectiveness of the changes made since last year. Like all good preparedness tests, they didn’t announce it ahead of time, they simply launched emergency warnings on many of the government nets. The results were a little shocking.

• Mayor for Life Ray Nagin apparently didn’t know that it was just a drill. He called a press conference and immediately proclaimed that this wasn’t his fault and that if the government would spend more money on rebuilding levy’s than they would be safe. He again called for a chocolate city despite a 22% drop in minority population since Katrina. One of the press members told him that it was just a drill to which he complained that this was just a white wing conspiracy against him.
  

• Senator Mary Landrieu also hadn’t heard it was just a drill and took to the senate floor asking for $500 billion in aid relief and the resignation of President Bush for not signing the Kyoto Treaty which would have stopped this hurricane. Senator Lieberman whispered that the treaty was enacted during the Clinton administration and that he didn’t push to have it signed, to which she replied “Never mind”.
  

• President George Bush left for vacation to his ranch in Crawford. It isn’t clear if he knew it was a drill or not, he just does this from time to time.

To all my friends and readers down south, remember that we are now in the second week of the official hurricane season. Prepare!