Katrina, Two Years Later: Today marks the two year anniversary of hurricane. A lot of things have changed since then, a lot has not. New Orleans still suffers with rebuilding because of incompetent people in power. Insurance companies still aren't holding up to their obligations. The mayor promised to rebuild it as a "chocolate city", but now twice as many whites are living there as before, so that didn't work out too well either.

Of course if you have read my rants against the incredibly poor prognosticators at the National Hurricane Center then you are aware how I feel about that. They forecast more hurricanes for the following year (2006) because of global warming but there were far less. Then they said that this year would be worse (again with the global warming), and there have been less. The revised their predictions by one less severe hurricane, but here on the anniversary of Katrina we have had 5 named storms, in 2005 this time of year we were on 11. So we have less than half of 2005, but I guess the brilliant minds at NHC know more than I do and despite their terrible track record at figuring these things out they will come up with an accurate prediction soon. Who knows, maybe they know that the storms are just waiting for the fall. But, that means that we have to have 10 hurricanes in the next 10 weeks. That should keep the good folks at CNN busy.