This one is not the winds, but the water.

That is how it is with all hurricanes/ tropical storms.

But this more than ever. People will lose interes, pay no attention, fail to evacuate -- and drown or die of injury and disease, cut off -- because it currently lacks a few knots per hour of wind and remains "just" a tropical storm.

Katrina was so horrific because people were not prepared for a hurricane.

Isaac will be horrific because it isn't even an official hurricane.