Do We Have to Unlearn Some the Lessons of 911?

911 lesson	New Orleans lesson
Avoid big cities	Avoid small cities
Stay close to the ground	Stay high off the ground
Don't store fuel	Store fuel
Local governments are reliable	Local governments are unreliable

Addendum: This is embarrassing. I wrote “St. Louis” at first instead of “New Orleans.” (I might have been wondering if St. Louis might be vulnerable to some of the same problems as New Orleans … or maybe Louisiana somehow morphed into St. Louis.)