Gustav May Trouble The Water in New Orleans

On the third anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans is again directly in the path of devastation. This time it's named Gustav.

Reuters reports that New Orleans and the Gulf Coast are deemed sufficiently vulnerable that evacuations have been ordered.

Has anything been learned from the Katrina debacle?

One way to find out is to watch the extraordinary documentaries made from footage shot during and after Katrina, and introducing us to people whose lives were devastated by the hurricane. Here's the must see list:

• Trouble The Water
• The Axe In The Attic
• When The Levees Broke
• Kamp Katrina

These films show the government's shameful failure to provide proper safety measures before the disaster, and sufficient relief afterwards.

Hopefully, Gustav will back off New Orleans, and we won't have any new documentaries chronicling another hurricane disaster in that vulnerable area. And let's use these revealing Katrina documentaries as the cautionary tales that they are, and assure that proper measures are taken to make and keep New Orleans safe.