Over at the Huffington Post, I've got a longish entry on the conclusions I draw from the Katrina tragedy one year later. Check it out.
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Over at the Huffington Post, I've got a longish entry on the conclusions I draw from the Katrina tragedy one year later. Check it out.
For some reason HuffPost and my computer cannot stand each other and commenting there is pretty much impossible. Someone in the US badly needs to research the Australian government's response to Cyclone Tracey in 1974 with the Katrina response.
Darwin then had a larger share of Australia's population than New Orleans had of the the 2005 US population. Darwin was also thousands of kilometres from the nearest large cities, Adelaide and Brisbane.
Tracey struck Darwin on 24 December 74 at Cat 5 strength. 90% of all buildings were levelled. The destruction was so bad that all communications were destroyed and it was some hours before the federal government learnt what had happened. 80% of the population had to be evacuated by air to avoid epidemics and a severe food crisis.
Nevertheless, the first evacuation flights started within 24 hours and the city was rebuilt from the ground up. The comparison with Katrina is fairly stark.
The Huffington Post is sort of like a fluffier, lightweight cousin of USA Today, which of course is sort of like a real newspaper, only lighter and fluffier.
I want to enjoy it, but I've been disappointed in every link I've ever clicked on over there.