Tomorrow, Sunday, August 29, 2010 will mark the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina's landfall in Louisiana. Five years ago, Katrina struck the Gulf Coast, centered on New Orleans, as a Category 3 hurricane. More than fifty levees were breached by its storm surge, causing massive flooding.
Over 1,800 Gulf Coast residents lost their lives then, and damages totaled more than $80 billion. Many intangible things were damaged then as well, communities were erased as their neighborhoods washed away, and much of historic New Orleans was badly damaged.
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Katrina was not centered over New Orleans. It was centered over the Mississippi Gulf Coast. What Happened in New Orleans was not a natural disaster. It was man made one due to the Army Corps of Engineers inability to do anything right.
And we all know it was Bush's fault, right?
Right....his disregard of the immense damage until days later surely was...Thank God he's out of power...
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