“Katrina made Sandy look anemic. Sandy got the extra creds because it hit a liberal bastion.”
Yea. Ray Nagin, his voters, and the riff raff of Bourbon Street just needed to be a little more liberal, LOL.
Mississippi took the real brunt of Katrina. The ocean came up between 25-30 feet in some areas and moved miles inland. Not trying to minimize what Sandy did to the NE, but if a Katrina had hit, the damage would have been magnitudes greater for a much larger area.
Nagin's Chocolate city made a lot of noise and failed to take any type proper steps - faulty levees accounted for most of the damage in NOLA because the eye of the storm was to the east and the winds over NOLA were actually helping to push the water away with the counterclockwise motion. If Katrina had hit to the west of NOLA and did it's eastward drift, NOLA would be forever changed even if the levees had held.