Rita Epilogue

Due to a number of factors - where it made landfall, the lessons of Katrina, and the fact that the municipalities (and one of the states) that felt the impact were not run by whiny, left-wing extremist incompetents - Hurricane Rita ended up being not nearly the disaster that the nation had been dreading.

Not even to domestic oil production (h/t Powerline):

Hurricane Rita proved to be less destructive than her sister Katrina, sparing the states of Texas and Louisiana with less destruction than what was seen in most parts of Louisiana and Mississippi last month.

Rita made less damage than expected to the oil refineries situated near the coast of Texas.

I skimmed a number of such stories yesterday, and they all seem to have a common thread running through them: massive disappointment. The Extreme Media wanted nothing short of meteorological Armageddon (or at least $4 a gallon gasoline) so as to launch into another massive PR attack against the Bush Administration, and there just wasn't enough there to fuel a full-scale assault.

Or maybe it's that the utter groundlessness of their post-Katrina offensive is now coming fully to light and they're shifting into Emily Latella mode....