The Philadelphia Inquirer column Andrew Cassel
It is quite difficult, just before the header for damage in the short term - human, physical, economic - that Katrina has caused.
The consideration of the long-term loss, much less a forecast of intelligence, which is along the coast of golf Storm destroyed, is almost a super-task.
However, it is important to worry about how quickly - and whether - to restore what the hurricane took.
If nothing else, has the misfortune of one million internally displaced people or more must be some serious rethinking on how we manage risk - both economically and politically.
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