My heart goes out to all those people in New Orleans, and I hope we do all we can to fix the situation.

I also hope we learn that disasters require some planning and preparation to stop the worst from happening. As a resident of the bay area I sure hope we can start anticipating things a little bit before we hit the trifecta of FEMA's 2001 "three likeliest, most catastrophic disasters facing this country".

I'd always assumed that someone has some plan in place to make San Francisco survive a large quake, but given the response in New Orleans, I'm getting a little scared.