If a monster hurricane like Katrina were to strike a city like New Orleans today, experts believe the federal government would be ill-equipped to respond.
“I think we’re not prepared for another Katrina and we’re getting less prepared every day as there’s talk of disassembling FEMA,” Dr. Irwin Redlener, founding director and senior advisor for the Columbia Climate School’s National Center for Disaster Preparedness, told The Independent.
