All true of hurricanes' wrath. But as far as larger things go, hurricanes are just the natural release of heat from the tropics and have been operating this way since before life appeared on the earth. In fact, without the heat being released this way, tropical life would be endangered by being too hot for most life to survive. Another benefit of hurricanes is that they drop tremendous amounts of water on often parched land in drought. The resulting floods are devastating but the land quickly rejuvenates from the deep soaking of heavy rain dumped by the hurricane's moisture.

As far as Katrina goes, living below sea level is always a dangerous prospect. Those that do so, are only postponing disaster.

Ron

a very good depiction of mother nature's wrath.