What Makes a Natural Disaster Worse?
Dr. Figley writes this: Hurricanes are acts of God, people can actually accept it more readily. But trauma caused by people on purpose is another matter completely. Most especially terrorist-induced trauma to frighten people is very different from natural disasters. Even Katrina with all its human-caused problems, then and now, they are more manageable knowing that we can fix what went wrong. It is comforting. Yeah, great load of comfort the people of New Orleans, of whom I am one, have experienced knowing that the Katrina-spawned flooding was not an act of God, but–according to the three forensic engineering teams that investigated the disaster–the result of design and construction flaws of the Congressionally-mandated “Hurricane Protection System”, a project under the exclusive supervision and control of the US Army Corps of Engineers. How comforting to know that the very same Corps, which stonewalled those reports, while denouncing their pro-bono investigators as liars, is now doi
