Many in the Bush administration (and their partisan parrots) claimed no one could’ve predicted how Katrina would affect the Gulf Coast…

The folks at Daily Kos — simply citizens like you and me — prove that to be nothing but a lie as their comments from just before Katrina hit show that normal folks’ eyes were wide open to the then-potential destruction.

Two of the choice comments from that time:

I wonder if anyone has told Bush yet. Isn’t he always awake for his early-morning exercise by now? What sort of prep have the Feds done? by Louise on Sun Aug 28, 2005 at 06:11:06 AM PDT

Our government better get its ass in gear and get these people out of there  … by Marie on Tue Aug 30, 2005 at 02:16:21 PM PDT

Why is it that average, every-day Americans could see what was about to happen but our conservative Bush Administration was unable to figure it out?

God Bless New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. There is much more yet to do.

(h/t DarkSyde)