THE GREAT DELUGE
This book by Douglas Brinkley tells the story of Katrina. It starts with landfall and ends when the 82nd Airborne arrived in the city and restored some semblance of order. I thought I knew most of what happened, boy was I wrong. This book is full of a lot of interesting facts. Brinkley does not let any of the politicans off the hook. He is tough on all of them and deservedly so. Nagin had a chance to show the world what he was capable of and inspire the city, instead he hid in the upper floors of the Hyatt while people where dying. The sheer incompentence of our leaders, from W on down to Nagin was criminal. These people that we elected to lead us let people die. People that could have been saved if quicker action had been taken, if better plans had been made...so many ifs.
I'm still in the midst of reading this book but I highly recommend it.
The most frightening thing is that Hurricane season is less than a week away. Have our leaders learned anything from this diaster? I'd like to think so, but truthfully I doubt it.
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