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Selected comments on Hurricane Katrina (August 2005) from email lists Compiled by Ilan Kelman (dated 7 September 2005) disaster_grads 1 Hazardmit 41 Other Email Lists 48 SwiftH2O-News and PSDivers-PublicSafetyDiversForum 78 Other Articles 91 See also: JISCMail archives http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/natural-hazards-disasters.html Radix archives /mailman/listinfo/radix GDN archives /archives/gender-and-disaster-network.html disaster_grads (all messages) From : Courtney Flint cflint@ Reply-To : cflint@ Sent : September 2, 2005 1:58:52 PM To : disaster_grads@ Subject : Katrina Hello all, Ive been surprised by the lack of dialogue on our listserve about the tradegies occurring in the Gulf States. Seems like this should be a forum for putting together a collective set of ideas about what went horribly wrong in managing this event, where we go from here, and how the disaster field of practitioners and researchers can respond. Any thoughts? Courtney Courtney G. Flint Univ of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dept of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences 1023 Plant Sciences Laboratory 1201 South Dorner Drive Urbana, IL 61801-4778 Telephone: 217-244-1840 Fax: 217-244-3469 Cell: 217-714-6012 EMail: cflint@ From : cstalber@ Reply-To : cstalber@ Sent : September 2, 2005 2:29:09 PM To : disaster_grads@ Subject : Re: Katrina I can say the same thing about the Hazardmit list (see /mailman/listinfo/hazardmit). Hurricane Katrina should be a wake up call for re-emphasis of hazard mitigation and most specifically hazard avoidance. Are we going to fund yet another rebuilding initiative in the high hazard zone? The once cornerstone of emergency management has falled by the wayside. Why? The war on terror? Or is it that we have reversed course and returned to the notion that we can both control and predict nature? Should we permit the USACE to strengthen and heighten all the levees around New Orleans? Where is the political will to bring about s