This is a bad article. All it says is that somehow Katrina confirms Pat's isolationist views?
I think Pat would have done well in the summers of 1915 and 1939!
BTW, Gravina Island, pop. 50 also has the Ketchican Airport on it. Still not worth a 250 million dollar bridge however. (The small "ferry" ride is actually quite quaint - it's more of a barge). Although I imagine bad weather complicates things.
This is a bad article. All it says is that somehow Katrina confirms Pat's isolationist views?
It’s not just Pat.
This is one of those weird events that everybody seems to be molding into proof of their chosen political/class/environmental/sociological/psychological theories, no matter how disparate and irrelevant.
Sometimes a hurricane is just a hurricane.