hurricane katrina aftermath

I must confess that I still don't quite understand what happened in New Orleans last week. Yes, I know that a hurricane devastated the city, but why were there so many people left behind? Why didn't those people leave? They knew what was coming. This was not a tsunami. This was something that the media had warned people about for days. I guess that the simple answer is that those people couldn't leave and the local government failed them. To me that is the real tragedy.

 
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