It's like nothing America has seen, and it could have been worse. The response of some of the people left behind The government response was terrible on a local, state, and federal level.

Having been born and spent some time in New Orleans (NOT Nola, ok), I got mixed emotions. Yeah, there was rich culture to the city, but the poverty, corruption and segration was too much. As a kid, it was always a distant place we traveled to for visiting relatives, which wasn't always fun. As an adult, it was place I traveled to alone to bury relatives. There hasn't been anyone left for me to personally bury, but now there's lots of people that need burying and saving. The scope of it all is overwhelming and most of us aren't even THERE.

Links about Katrina:
The Times-Picayune in New Orleans
Surviving New Orleans to keep your internet company running

flickr stream

AP zoomable photo of New Orleans

Images from Getty

Washington Post photos

Wikkipedia entry on Katrina

Timeline of Fema funding under Bush Administration

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