New Orleans officials to world: We are idiots

This one is simply too much to believe.

The City of New Orleans unveiled its post-Katrina disaster relief plan today, apparently after months of thought and input. As CNN reports:

[The plan] depends more on evacuation by bus and train and won't use the Superdome and Convention Center as shelters.

Mayor Ray Nagin and New Orleans Homeland Security Director Col. Terry Ebbert said the plan will prevent a repeat of the major disaster that happened when Katrina slammed the city last year.

"We think that we have come a long way," Ebbert said.

What?!?!?

Let me get this straight: After the better part of a year, the people charged with overseeing the safety of one of America's largest cities have come to the startling conclusion that moving residents away from the disaster may be an effective plan? And not returning people to the crime-infested death traps they suffered in last summer – the Superdome and Convention Center – counts as having “come a long way”?

CNN may have said it best in the headline: “New Orleans disaster plan: Get out of town.”

Umm, yeah.