Case in point: fewer than half the residents in flood and hurricane-prone areas were insured against water damage from Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Sandy.
Imagine a stadium full of grown men and women brought to tears when The Saints blocked a punt againstthe Falcons and ran it back for a touchdown in their first home game since Hurricane Katrina.
Ortega went a step further, blaming natural disasters and hurricanes like Hurricane Felix that recently devastated Nicaragua, as the result of "aggression against mother nature carried by the greediness of imperial capitalism".
As I write this, Hurricane Isaac is lazily meandering along the Louisiana coast, pushing up storm surge waves over marshes and against levees, and dumping copious amounts of rain across the region, including New Orleans and its suburbs.