Hurricane Katrina was devastating — a reminder of the significance of leaders who have the best interests of the people around them in mind, and how tragic it can be when they do not. With Katrina’s 20th anniversary just passing, it’s important to look back on the governmental shortcomings in our history.
Hurricane Katrina struck Louisiana and Mississippi in August 2005 as a category three, where it would quickly become one of the deadliest hurricanes in the United States. While some of Katrina’s destructiveness was because of the warm waters out in the Gulf of Mexico empowering the cyclone, the largest reason for Katrina’s destruction was governmental failure.
In an official report issued a year following the tragedy, Congress refers to Katrina as a failure of initiative and leadership. The reasons for this failure were large, and cannot be attributed to one individual or government entity, but rather a multitude of factors and cross-system government faultiness…