We arrived to our work site the first day and in between two houses was a huge pile of rubble and we had to clean it up. By the second day we organized the area and it looks completely different than it did two days ago. I had a different perspective when I learned from a speaker on the first day that it was not a natural disaster, but a government disaster. All over the news it was presented to me that Katrina was a natural disaster caused by the hurricanes, but really what was going on was the government did not want to rebuild the area, they just wanted to turn their heads and pretend it never happened. They tried to do so when they declared New Orleans an unsafe place to live. When in comparison Los Angeles was quickly rebuilt after the Northridge earthquake and an earthquake can hit at any time. Not to mention that the government knew the levees were not designed to withhold a huge hurricane.
David Haft
Major: Sociology
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