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While reading about the Gulf Coast hurricane disaster, I thought about 9/11. In both tragedies, failures of hyperbureaucratic structures resulted in the loss of lives. According to The 9/11 Commission Report, there were loads of information and hints about terrorist activities before the attack. It was the same with Katrina. Meteorologists knew at least 48 hours before the storm hit the Gulf Coast that an exceptional force of nature was aimed at New Orleans. Military and medical aid should have been set up in anticipation. I cannot believe that a civilized and highly developed rich nation was unable to provide...
...response to our coverage of Hurricane Katrina, TIME heard from Gulf Coast residents who lost their homes?but not their hope. Less optimistic were the readers angered by government failures to prepare...
...evacuee from Metairie, Louisiana. The majority of people on the Gulf Coast, even those of us who left before the storm hit land, were in a state of denial. That was in part because we've faced hurricanes and evacuations before, and in part because we didn't want to acknowledge the possibility that a catastrophe of biblical proportions was about to change our lives forever. Mistakes were made?too many of them fatal and irreversible?on all levels. Although there must be a thorough accounting of what went wrong and why, I beg the media to focus...
...slow response to Katrina [Sept. 12]. But the point is not the political tone-deafness of the President or his handlers. It is whether his incompetence and that of his appointees have cost the lives of Americans. While the White House was working on speeches, people all along the Gulf Coast were desperate. They needed food and water, not rhetoric. Taylor Hebden Bloomington, Illinois...
...discussion centered on such appeals to humanitarian efforts and human rights, the majority of the experts focused their comments on the future of relief.Michael VanRooyen, associate director of the Program on Humanitarian Crises and Human Rights at HSPH, said the hurricane exacerbated the vulnerability of many people in the Gulf Coast.“In response to Katrina...we ignored vulnerable people...This cannot be our model for a successful response,” VanRooyen said. “What separates us from less stable countries is our ability to provide protection for our population.”Daniel Curran...