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i'd have to disagree that natural dissasters help redistribute welth, unless you mean take from the poor and give to the rich.
To the rich a natural disaster is an inconvence that makes them a lot of money. They get the contracts to rebuild, their insurance covers all that they lost, and in the end they end up in a possition where can take advantage of the poor. The poor on the other hand loose everything they have, become desperate, and have no way of getting it back. In fact i bet in new orleans you will see a lot of the poor land owners selling their land to rich people who will build either nice luxory hotels/appartments or buisnesses.
To further strengthen my arguement lets look at it at a macro level. A natural disaster hits pakistan or india and entire regions are wiped out, the have tens if not hundreds of thousands of deaths. One hits the US and the results are not nearly as bad. A couple hundred dead, things returning to somewhat normalicy (depending on severity) in weeks to months.
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