10 Things We've Learned from Hurricane Katrina

• The United States is a very rich and powerful country, but it still has too many very poor and powerless people.
  
  
  
• Whenever you tell tens of thousands of people to leave a city, it’s best to check first to see if they have a ride.
  
  
  
• Mike Brown’s previous job as an overseer of horse shows did not prepare him well for managing the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
  
  
  
• Four years after 160-foot-long planes veered off course, crashed into buildings and killed thousands, we still don’t feel very secure or prepared, even for something that was forecast hours in advance, was as large as 500 miles wide, and was seen on satellite photos for days.
  
  
  
• As soon as we question whether race is an issue, it becomes an issue.
  
  
  
• Katrina was a very, very big storm.
  
  
  
• Being the mayor of New Orleans is not an easy job, and evacuating the nation’s 35th largest city is not an easy task.
  
  
  
• If the last presidential election was being held THIS November, the President would need to spend more time in Louisiana.
  
  
  
• No one is too proud to accept charity from a third-world country.
  
  
  
• Fats Domino is still alive.