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Originally Posted by Bytor Peltor
Three weeks after Katrina hit New Orleans, hurricane Rita hit the Texas - Louisiana border. Hurricane Rita was a bigger and more powerful storm compared to Katrina. Rita caused lots of damage, but this area has bounced back nicely. The local city officials here did a wonderful job. YES - they had three weeks of seeing everything New Orleans did wrong to change plans......but they had plans to begin with. It clear to see that the City of New Orleans didn't have plans to handle a situation like this......or if they did, it went horribly wrong.
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actually, at landfall, katrina was more powerful than rita by 20mph.
and you can't compare the damage done between lake charles and beaumont (by hurricane rita) to the damage the entire gulf coast took as a result of katrina. i've seen the entire gulf coast, post-katrina, and i've seen the path between lake charles and beaumont, and while both of the areas were severely damaged, the the areas hit by katrina are in far far worse condition than any of those hit by rita. but this isn't a dick measuring contest, so that doesn't matter. and it didn't matter whether the city officials had plans or not, either, because the city was going to get fucked, plans or not. it's a natural disaster, you can't exactly plan to dodge it.