Kind of puts Katrina into perspective.
In a free society, people can access information to keep themselves informed. Most folks got themselves out of the path of Katrina, because they heard radio and TV reports about the coming storm.
The ruling junta in Burma didn't bother telling the people in the path of the storm of the danger coming their way, and they didn't have access to other information. The only folks who knew the storm was coming their way were the ones who had access to radio stations beamed into the country, on the order of like Radio Free Europe. The government just flat didn't care how many died.