2005: Hurricane Katrina
The freshest in our collective consciousness of the 10 Worst Disasters of the Century, Katrina remains as horrifying as it is instructing. In the context of 100 years of tragedy wrought by Mother Nature, the Category 5 hurricane and its aftermath can teach us just as much as we learned in its immediate aftermath.
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Katrina taught us the importation of LOCATION in considering natural disasters.
When the ground zero population is a nest of chip-on-shoulder entitlement, for whom the basic concepts of self-reliance, forethought, planning, sacrifice and personal responsibility are not even on the radar screen, the magnitude of the disaster is multiplied exponentially.
Haiti was the poorest nation on Earth anyway, a disaster couldn’t make it any worse and anything can make it better. Basically that makes this entire thread a waste of time.
Sorry, but welfare recipients and peons in thug dictatorships do not do well at “rising from the ashes!”