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It’s easy to criticize the actions or lack of the same by others. When everything is said and done the Hurricane Katrina affair was handled terrible. High paid officials that knew or ought t o have known that levies could fail kept living like ostriches with their head in the sand. The aftermath of Katrina was also not handled well by many elected officials and/or civil servants (Federal, State or Local.)

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