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 By the time this is all over, the Gulf Coast might resemble something closer to the Indian Ocean than anyone could have imagined at the outset. The horror just grows exponentially.
I was in Florida during Hurricane Andrew and passed through the path of the storm a few days after. There, the threat came not from below but from above. Nothing higher than fifteen feet existed anymore -- homes flattened, every tree in sight snapped in half, concrete buildings defaced as if by a truck bomb. It looked like Hiroshima. "Only" 26 people died.
As harrowing as it might look on television, it's not the wind that kills so much as the water -- 150,000 lives taken in South Asia and perhaps hundreds more in Mississippi and Louisiana. Next time one of these comes, and they say leave... don't ask questions, just leave.
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