At Least the Women and Minorities Didn't Suffer DisproportionatelyJames Dao of the NY Times finds
a silver lining in Katrina:
The Misery Is Spread Equally
WAVELAND, Miss., Aug. 30 - The storm was nothing if not equal opportunity in its misery.
In Waveland and Bay St. Louis, modest bungalows and working-class apartment buildings were thrashed, torn open like cellophane bags and filled to their first-floor ceilings with muddy Gulf of Mexico water by Hurricane Katrina's howling winds and powerful tidal surge.
But a few miles away, affluent Diamondhead fared no better, and perhaps worse, as the hurricane obliterated an entire subdivision of $500,000 houses, leaving just the pilings they once stood on and piles upon piles of rubbish, sodden clothing and battered appliances.Simply amazing. The Times dips deeper and deeper into self-parody mode.
