Katrina underscores the issues in the Bush Administration
ecthompsonmd
August 12, 2015
For the next several days, I will re-post some of the things that I typed more than 10 years ago about Hurricane Katrina. From the Center for American Progress: 1,833 lives lost. 270,000 homes destroyed. $55 billion in insured damage. Up to $1.4 billion in American tax dollars wasted by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). Today, the costs of Hurricane Katrina are still staggering. But even more staggering has been the slow pace of recovery on the Gulf Coast. No one was happy with the federal government’s initial response to the hurricane. Eighty percent of the American public think the
