What history has taught us

[goofygirl]

Has history taught us NOTHING?


Past disasters that had similar results to Katrina:

Johnstown flood, 1889
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnstown_Flood

Galveston Hurricane of 1900
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galveston_Hurricane_of_1900

 

[bicker]

There is always a struggle between the needs stemming from some remote possibility of something perhaps happing somewhere, sometime, and the needs stemming from immediate circumstances -- even when the former is a matter of life-and-death, and the latter is only a matter of convenience and comfort.