Three years ago this morning, Hurricane Katrina roared ashore at the Mississippi-Louisiana line. It left a swath of devastation no mountain of statistics can describe fully: 1,836 dead; hundreds of thousands homeless; upward of $150 billion in property damage. That Katrina was the costliest natural disaster, by a factor of nearly four, in U.S. history only begins to tell the story. Katrina was "the storm," New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin would say later, "that most of us have long feared." For decades, scientists had predicted his city would slip beneath the waves in the 21st century from the combination of...
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