The plan worked great for the people with their own cars, but for the sixth of the city that relied on public transport it pretty much fell over and went "clunk", with ugly effects. I feel bad for Mayor Nagin - after a successful couple of years fighting corruption, he got whacked by a threat that he apparently didn't spend a lot of time worrying about. I don't blame him for that: you only have so much time to do your job, and if you're constantly worrying about low-order possibilities you'll never get anything substantive accomplished. Governor Blanco, not so much - it was her call to order mandatory evacuation, and she had to be pushed into it. It's all Monday morning quarterbacking at this point, really.