[xzins]

Katrina was a cat 3 when it made landfall.

However, read the first sentence of the article again.

Also, the political implications are enormous in terms of appearance. Obama blew it off. I’m puzzled.

[thackney]

Katrina was the most destructive storm (in terms of dollars of damage) in our nation history.

You can look at measured wind speeds at the moment of land fall and try and pretend it wasn’t that big of a deal if you want.

But the storm surge and corresponding waves then flooding compares to little in recent history.

You can pretend the should have had equal presidential response. Those who understand hurricane damage see a vast difference.

Obama has lots and lots of real faults. When we make up stuff pretending he failed, it diminishes the argument of his real failures.

Let us focus on the real problems. There are enough of those to go around.