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Originally Posted by KRL
Actually you can't count that, because it was the result of human engineering design failure on the levee system and poor emergency management on the part of the local and state governments, and lack of prioritization by the Federal governemnt to fix the levee despite decades of warnings.
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I agree that all those factors played into the severity of the disaster, but ultimately it was caused by the storm.
It'd certainly be a more stark statistic if categorized under 'deaths due to hurricane' than if categorized under 'deaths due to incompetant fuckwits in government too busy lining their own pockets to give a fuck about the little guy'. I suspect the number of deaths caused by that dwarf most any other measure.
