Saturday, August 29, 2015

Hurricane Katrina - 10th Anniversary Of A "Manmade Disaster"


Hurricane Katrina, a category 3 hurricane, devastated New Orleans and the southern Gulf coast 10 years ago today.  What was initially a terrible natural disaster quickly morphed into a manmade disaster when the storm surge overwhelmed the levees and government, most egregiously the Bush administration, failed in their response to the flooding and human misery.  One of the lessons that remains to be learned is expressed in this long but riveting clip from "The Rachel Maddow Show" last week:  we should not rely on people who don't believe in government to run the government.  The clip (with closed captioning) reminds us of those days and what still, 10 years later, remains to be done.



2 comments:

Grung_e_Gene said...

W (orst Potus Ever) took a shameless victory dance in NOLA.

W. Hackwhacker said...

Returning to the scene of the crime...