Critique: A few questions to ponder in the wake of a hurricane

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Where were the trains? Did every architect have the same reaction I did, looking at all those aerial photos of jammed highways and stalled cars (many of them useless, because gas stations were out of gas) desperately trying to flee New Orleans? Reading all those news stories about whether FEMA had ordered the necessary hundreds—or was it thousands—of buses? You'd think no one had ever invented a means of human transport that didn't rely on asphalt. I don't recall a single news report during the Gulf Coast hurricane crisis that so much as mentioned railroad trains.