Ron Moore is the one of the executive producers and visionaries behind the new Battlestar Galactica.  I follow his blog to get insight into the story lines and when he randomly answers BSG universe questions.  Today, he had a great post looking back at Katrina a year later.  Here’s a small excerpt

The subject is the one most likely to inspire yawns and rolling of eyes, so ready your mouse to click onto something else: Disaster Preparedness.

Still awake?

Okay, look, I’m not writing this because I’ve been sentenced to doing PSA’s off some DUI conviction or something, but I do work on a show that’s premised on the idea of an apocalyptic event actually happening to group of people and their struggle to survive in its aftermath, and so the idea of being ready for the unexpected does actually occur to me on occasion.

The third paragaph above is what hooked me.  The rest of it is worth the read as well.