Seems to me that making predictions for the hurricane season isn’t all that different from flipping coins for football picks.
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Eddie Compass, former Chief of Police in New Orleans, says he “exaggerated the post-Katrina crime”: The New Orleans police chief during Hurricane Katrina, Eddie Compass, says he unnecessarily “heightened people’s fears” by repeating unconfirmed reports of out-of-control crime in the …
I’m speechless: NEW ORLEANS – The Army Corps of Engineers, rushing to meet President Bush’s promise to protect New Orleans by the start of the 2006 hurricane season, installed defective flood-control pumps last year despite warnings from its own expert …

