Created by Ray Nagin.
Via NPR:
A decade after Hurricane Katrina — the costliest natural disaster in U.S. history — President Obama told a crowd in New Orleans that the storm was a “man-made” calamity that had as much to do with economic inequality and the failure of government as it did the forces of nature.
“What started out as a natural disaster became a man-made disaster — a failure of government to look out for its own citizens,” the president said in a speech at a newly opened community center in the Lower Ninth Ward, a predominantly black neighborhood that was devastated by Katrina.
Obama was a freshman U.S. senator from Illinois when Katrina struck New Orleans on Aug. 29, 2005.