Katrina's After-Aftermath
It's bad enough that the Gulf Coast is still trying to rebuild from Hurricane Katrina, yet the storm is brewing anew thanks to videos (today's top blog post) of pre-storm meetings between weather experts, response officials and President George Bush, who promised an all-out response to the storm. Perhaps coincidentally, the buzz is emerging almost six months to the day after the storm slammed ashore...including nearly one-fourth of today's most-cited news stories. "Heckuva Job" Michael Brown, formerly of FEMA, and Homeland Security czar Michael Chertoff are again among today's most-discussed personalities because of the retrospective analysis of the federal response. The "i" word (combined with equal levels of amazement and disgust) emerges again in blogger reactions.
Even though "buzz" will never reach the levels immediately during/after the storm, it's starting a slow rise, according to BlogPulse Trend Graphs:
Passings...
Actor Jack Wild, who died of cancer this week, is today's burstiest person and being remembered for his child-actor appearances as Oliver! and in the children's show "HR Puf'n'Stuff." The Teacher blogger offers a tribute.
Posted by Sue MacDonald at March 3, 2006 11:51 AM
