88. I'm not. But the story is not as simple as "Bush fucked it up."
Edited on Sat Aug-28-10 11:09 AM by slackmaster
We learned about Hurricane Katrina in my US History class in my senior year of high school.
The teacher was a retired civil engineer. He explained in great detail how the Army Corps of Engineers had erred in its hydrological engineering of the region. We learned about which levies and parts of the city were most vulnerable. He made it clear that the disaster was going to happen sooner or later, and that for political reasons nobody was going to do anything about it.
I graduated from high school in 1975. My first reaction to Katrina was "That crabby old wind-bag Mr. Lynn was right!"
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