{"id":14702,"date":"2009-08-30T01:34:43","date_gmt":"2009-08-30T01:34:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/csm_what_katrina_has_wrought_four_years_later\/"},"modified":"2009-08-30T01:34:43","modified_gmt":"2009-08-30T01:34:43","slug":"csm_what_katrina_has_wrought_four_years_later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=14702","title":{"rendered":"CSM: What Katrina has wrought, four years later"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The storm that crashed into New Orleans and the Mississippi Gulf Coast four years ago wreaked a shocking $80 billion in damage and resulted in 1,836 confirmed fatalities. But since then, its overall legacy has broadened and, one hopes, has not been all bad.<\/p>\n<p>Count these among the lessons it taught and the changes it spawned:<\/p>\n<p>\u201d\u00a2Volunteers matter a lot in a time of crisis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201d\u00a2FEMA&#8217;s mission has shifted from a top-down to a bottom-up approach.<\/p>\n<p>\u201d\u00a2New appreciation has emerged of the need to retain and restore wetlands to help absorb storm surges.<\/p>\n<p>\u201d\u00a2Storm-tracking capabilities have advanced in ways that improve public safety.<\/p>\n<p>\u201d\u00a2Hurricanes have moved to the center of the climate-change debate.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/2009\/0829\/p02s01-usgn.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The storm that crashed into New Orleans and the Mississippi Gulf Coast four years ago wreaked a shocking $80 billion in damage and resulted in 1,836 confirmed fatalities. But since then, its overall legacy has broadened and, one hopes, has<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=14702\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,149,133,131,584],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-economy","category-history","category-hurricane-katrina","category-the-u-s-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}