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It's incredible. FEMA in 2000 did an analysis in which it described the three worst disaster scenarios possible in the U.S.: the first was a category 5 hurricane hitting New Orleans, the second was a major earthquake in San Francisco, and the third was (ironically) a terrorist attack in New York City. This has the makings of one of the worst disasters in the history of this country.
We live in Miami, and our house was in the eye of Katrina. At 10PM Thursday night we were hearing deafening wind and sheets of rain blasting sideways into our house like ocean surf, trees were bent over, the house was shuddering, lightning and thunder every 20 seconds or so all around us, and the kitchen filled with about an inch of water. After the hurricane passed there were occasional tornadoes, one of which ripped through a local park and uprooted about 20 trees. That was just a category 1 hurricane, and we were 10 feet above sea level.
I can't imagine what would have happened if we were 14 feet below sea level, under a category 5 . . . . .
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