Katrina Meets Chernobyl

Read this today by another native Mississippian, a brother from Biloxi:

Moore to the Point by Russell D. Moore: "This is more than a threat to my hometown, and to our neighboring communities. It is a threat to national security greater than most Americans can even contemplate, because so few of them know how dependent they are on the eco-systems of the Gulf of Mexico. This is, as one magazine put it recently, Katrina meets Chernobyl."