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...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 people with water, food and medicine over...
...greatly anticipated the issue of TIME that would come out following Hurricane Katrina [Sept. 12]. You did not let me down. From Nancy Gibbs' poetic story to the astounding photographs, TIME once again took me to a distant place and helped me understand the enormity of the storm's destruction. Laura Taylor Atlanta...
...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...
...certainly seen in America’s overwhelming response to Hurricane Katrina that the American people have a great potential for kindness and generosity, demonstrated by how many opened up their homes and their wallets for hurricane survivors. But many of these people needed help long before the storm ever hit, and before the storm, none of us seemed to care—and it’s unclear if we care even now. It is ironic, then, that for many of New Orleans’ poor, the hurricane did not take anything away from them, for they had little...
Lindsay E. Crouse ’06, who lived in room B-31, the hardest-hit room, said the dripping water woke her up around 3:30 a.m. She said she initially assumed that the leak had been caused by a storm, but soon realized that this did not seem reasonable, given the amount of water...