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GUSTAV MAY MAKE KATRINA A FOND MEMORY
Like the poor, hurricanes will always be with us and always have been.
They’re not due to the myth of global warming or else how do we explain the Big One of 1938 which still stands as the most merciless storm ever to strike the East Coast?
They’re not due to the wrath of God wreaking vengeance on the wicked any more than are droughts, cold waves, heat waves, and floods.
They’re due to a capricious Mother Nature who spared us for two years following Katrina and now seems bent on compensating in 2008 for that indulgence.
If anything, hurricanes represent a test of human beings, not an intentional testing but rather more an opportunity for people to exercise their God-given sense of reason and their capacity to draw intelligent conclusions.
America’s original Sin City, the Big Easy in every way, New Orleans, was built where no city should ever have been built, below sea level for the most part and historically subject to natural assaults and ravages. It’s welcome news that the inept Mayor Nagin seems ready for Gustav and has warned looters not to loot and residents to flee the oncoming storm. This is a distinct improvement on his actions, and inactions, before, during and after Katrina when Nagin sent residents to an ill-equipped and unprepared Superdome during Katrina where they went without food, water, and adequate sanitary facilities while he got drunk in the Hyatt.
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