As Isaac nears hurricane force, we remember Katrina and Camille:
“Without an honest reckoning of the storm’s moral implications, Mark Smith concludes, ‘we seem doomed to perpetuate the recovery divide the next time a powerful Atlantic storm decides to cut its teeth on southern soil.’”
(NOAA photo of damage from 1969’s Hurricane Camille, which killed 143 people)
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People seem to be greatly frightened by Hurricane Isaac. I guess they really did take something away from the reality of...
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