I am asking all our countrymen living near rivers to prepare so that we can prevent any tragedy,

I can't believe I'm watching what I'm watching. That's my living room. That was my living room.

In the initial response to the tragedy of Hurricane Katrina, particularly in Louisiana, governments at all levels failed in this obligation,

It was a combination of a high rate of speed and an inexperienced driver. It's an unbelievable tragedy.

in this time of national tragedy.

[Comedies], in the ancient world, were regarded as of a higher rank than tragedy, of a deeper truth, of a more difficult realization, of a sounder structure, and of a revelation more complete. The happy ending of the fairy tale, the myth, and the divine comedy of the soul, is to be read, not as a contradiction, but as a transcendence of the universal tragedy of man.... Tragedy is the shattering of the forms and of our attachments to the forms; comedy, the wild and careless, inexhaustible joy of life invincible.