6/8/08 Kansas City Star: U.S. Excerpts: hurricane preparedness in Mississippi

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Hurricane preparedness
Kansas City Star

6/8/08

From the Jackson (Miss.) Clarion-Ledger

As thousands of Mississippians still have not recovered from Hurricane Katrina three years ago, it must be asked: Is the federal government prepared as hurricane season officially begins?

According to the Disaster Accountability Project (https://disasteraccountability.org), a nonpartisan group that sprang up after Katrina to keep tabs on federal agencies to try to improve government response to Katrina-like disasters, the answer is no.

Ominously, despite $22 million in repairs, the 17th Street Canal levee that broke with catastrophic effect in New Orleans during Katrina is leaking again.

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