Every death caused by a disaster is sad, buy in fact 'only' 1,836 people lost their lives during Hurricane Katrina. Perhaps more important than the number of deaths was the fact that nearly 500,000 people lost their homes,and it cost 81.2 billion US dollars to repair the damage. Katrina was by far the most expensive natural disaster in US history.
It is easy to be clever after a disaster and to say, ' Why didn't they do this,why didn't they do that?' But what lessons can we learn from the experience of a disaster like Hurricane Katrina,in one of the richest countries of the world?