Old news, but relavent news. Here is your first apple:
New Orleans population: near 0.5 million people.
Katrina wind speed: 140 mph at landfall
Deaths due to Katrina: 1000+
Here is your second apple:
Population of southern coastal region of China in affected areas: in excess of 1.5 million people
Typhoon Saomai windspeeds: about 135 mph at landfall.
Reported deaths thus far: 2
Look, I'm not being unpatriotic, and this has nothing to do with supporting a president, or slamming a political party. I want to know how equivalent storms can wreak so much human destruction in one place, yet not another. Well, I know that China was a heck of a lot more organized in evacuating some 1.5 million people, where our government couldn't be bothered with evacuating half a million people effectively.
So, politics aside, did the government (yes, the government is responsible for protecting the citizens) bungle Katrina?
2006-08-10
07:59:50
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