Hurricane!

As bad as 9/11 was, the death toll and number of homeless were small compared to Hurricane Katrina.

The situations are so totally, completely, fundamentally different that I’m finding myself intensely angry every time I hear the mayors compared, and the mayor of New Orleands come up wanting. Yes, he may not be as competent, in the end, as Giuliani. Maybe Giuliani is better connected and better able to get the Feds to respond with a larger response - I don’t know that. But you can’t just line up the two situations. I don’t know what Rudi would have been able to do differently before Katrina hit, and I’m not sure just how much of a difference he might have been able to make afterwards. But the challenges of 9/11 and Katrina seem VERY different, to me.