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...Wednesday, Gregory Breerwood, operations chief for the Army Corps of Engineers, told the Wall Street Journal that none of the plans had "ever included an event of this magnitude." But Hurricane Pam, an elaborate federally sponsored simulation conducted just one year ago, had predicted an eerily similar scenario with tens of thousands of deaths. One problem, in retrospect, is that no one had wanted to believe it. "I'll be honest with you. I'm the researcher, I'm doing all the models, and sometimes I would say to myself, 'Am I Chicken Little? Could this really happen?'" says Wolshon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Did This Happen? | 9/4/2005 | See Source »

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