Why should young people care about weather disasters both here and across the world?
Besides the personal safety lessons that spring out of disaster stories, I think that really understanding them may make readers more sensitive to the hardship of the victims. A good result would be for readers to be more empathetic to victims in remote places around the globe and to think, somewhere in their minds, that while we humans can do nothing to stop the wind, we can do a lot to make conditions everywhere safer for when hurricanes strike. That includes building stronger houses and making and executing effective evacuation plans. Q: You had a real inside view of the disaster of Hurricane Katrina. In your opinion, what if anything could have been done differently to save more lives and minimize damage? A: New Orleans, southern Louisiana, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast should have been evacuated earlier. It seems possible to me that if evacuation orders had gone out even as little as twelve hours earlier and broadcasters kept repeating the warnings of danger, more people who chos
