Want to honor the memory of Katrina's victims? Want to practice a little emergency preparedness here at home? It's an easy fix: come November, vote no on I-912, the Infrastructure Killer.

The Seattle P-I tells us why:

Republican arguments about shared blame for Hurricane Katrina's losses have a reasonable basis.... Acknowledging that reality has obvious implications for Washington state. It's absurd for national Republicans to tut-tut about municipal and state shortcomings in Katrina while many GOP leaders here try to sink the state gasoline tax funding that could save thousands of local lives in a disastrous earthquake. Without the gas-tax increase under threat from an initiative, the state has no prospect of replacing the state Route 520 bridge across Lake Washington or the Alaskan Way Viaduct.

Yeah, gas is expensive. But you know what's a million times more costly? Rebuilding the entire transportation infrastructure of Western Washington on a wish and a prayer, once the Big One hits.

You have a choice. Make the right one.