So that's his reason for not coming to work? he should have at least been answering calls or having a conference with his cabinet about this. when a considerably large hurricane hits the middle of the southeast, especially a city that is below sea level, there is going to be large damage evacuation or not. and people are going to staying behind, because they do it in florida, too. but the fact that it took 5 days to get help federal help in, i guess that could be put on mayor nagin's shoulders. and bush's budget left the levee's underfunded because of the large sum of money going to the war in iraq, not just congress' slashings.