Hurricane Katrina - Two Years Later

"The most important thing to remember about the drowning of New Orleans is that it wasn't a natural disaster. It was a man-made disaster, created by lousy engineering, misplaced priorities and pork-barrel politics. Katrina was not the Category 5 killer the Big Easy had always feared; it was a Category 3 storm that missed New Orleans, where it was at worst a weak 2..."

That's how a newly published article in Time magazine on the two year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina begins.
Read the entire article from the August 13th, 2007 issue:
http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1646611_1646683_1648904-1,00.html

The above article is also featured in Dr. Jeff Masters' WunderBlog on the Weather Underground's Web site:
http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/comment.html?entrynum=737&tstamp=200708

The two year anniversary of the storm and the region's recovery is also featured in a thoughtful article in National Geographic magazine. Read more From the August 2007 issue:
http://www7.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0708/feature1/