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IT'S like Pompeii. No, it's like the Chicago fire. No, it's like the Galveston hurricane of 1900. No, the San Francisco earthquake.
You can make a case for all those comparisons - sort of. But one that keeps itching at the edge of my mind, for a number of reasons, is another disaster of the 20th century in America that, like Katrina, came from a combination of nature and predicted human foolishness. I'm referring to the Dust Bowl of the 1930s.See the full content of this document
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Warning Voices From Dust Bowl
Obviously Katrina wreaked its destruction in a much shorter time frame. But look at the parallels:
Katrina's power by itself did not create the huge emergency in New O...See the full content of this document
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