There are few doctors left, and teachers have been sacked because the schools are closed. So is this what happens when a city in the richest and most powerful country in the world suffers a major, catastrophic event like Katrina?
Is it inevitable that the response to any future major disaster like this - either natural or man-made such as a terrorist attack - will be as clueless, as disorganized, as inept as the response to Katrina?
And is this inevitable, that six months after 80 per cent of an American city is drowned by flood, that virtually no rebuilding has begun and more than half the city's 460,000 population remains scattered across the country?
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