The levees in New Orleans broke Monday MORNING, people.
By Monday evening, the Red Cross was already calling this the "largest recovery operation in the organization's history."
How can Bush and his GOP spinmeisters now claim that no one had any idea things were going to be this bad and that's why the federal government was so slow in responding, and that's why he decided to stay on vacation FOR TWO MORE DAYS, Condi Rice decided to go on vacation, and Dick Cheney decided to stay on vacation?
From the Times-Picayune
A large section of the vital 17th Street Canal levee, where it connects to the brand new "hurricane proof" Old Hammond Highway bridge, gave way late Monday morning in Bucktown after Katrina's fiercest winds were well north. The breach sent a churning sea of water from Lake Pontchartrain coursing across Lakeview and into Mid-City, Carrollton, Gentilly, City Park and neighborhoods farther south and east.
As night fell on a devastated region, the water was still rising in the city, and nobody was willing to predict when it would stop. After the destruction already apparent in the wake of Katrina, the American Red Cross was mobilizing for what regional officials were calling the largest recovery operation in the organization's history.
