[BenLurkin]

“Los Angeles has long recognized that, not only are we multi-cultural but we are multi-hazards as well. Unfortunately it took Katrina to let others realize that natural disasters are as devastating as man-made disasters,”

Odd comment.

If I didn’t know better I’d say he was trying to say backwards what he would get fired for saying forwards.

[metmom]

Try again. Please ignore FReepmail. *sigh*

Unfortunately it took Katrina to let others realize that natural disasters are as devastating as man-made disasters,”

I wonder what manmade *disasters* he was thinking of that can even compare to what nature can dish out?

[lonestar]

Unfortunately it took Katrina to let others realize that natural disasters are as devastating as man-made disasters...

Is this referring to the NOLA part of Katrina as "natural disasters" or what Katrina really was, a "man made disaster?"

Literally speaking, aren't all disasters man made?-- because nature naturally recovers, unless interupted by man; destruction to "man made" has to be rebuilt.