Mental makes a good point about how much of the damage from Katrina could have been limited by better land management. I won't disagree with that. What I will say is that we need to realize that there are two issues here: how did Katrina get so powerful, and how did she destroy so much. I would say that global warming helped to make her more powerful, that with the fact that the defense was damaged made the totality of the destruction as significant as it is. I hope that we, as a race, learn from both sides of the event.


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