Most Americans say US is not prepared for natural disasters: Poll
Ten years after Hurricane Katrina struck the US, nearly half of Americans still think the country has not learned lessons from the devastating storm and is not better prepared for future natural disasters, according to a new survey.
The CNN/ORC poll, released Friday, shows that 51 percent of Americans believe the US is just as vulnerable to severe storms today as it was in 2005 when Hurricane Katrina struck the Southern US states that share a border with the Gulf of Mexico.
That's up from 48 percent of people who thought so one year after the hurricane in a poll by CNN, USA Today and Gallup.
African Americans and other minorities remain more angry about Katrina than whites, 36 percent of whites were angry compared with 42 percent of blacks and Hispanics.
Hurricane Katrina was the costliest natural disaster and one of the five deadliest hurricanes in the history of the United States.
At least 1,833 people died in the hurricane and subsequent floods. The most significant number of deaths occurred in New Orleans, Louisiana, which flooded as its levee system failed.
The storm is currently ranked as the third most severe United States tropical cyclone, behind only the Labor Day hurricane of 1935 and Hurricane Camille in 1969.
US government agencies like the Federal Emergency Management Agency were widely criticized for what was seen as a slow response to Katrina at the time.
A bipartisan congressional investigation called the government response a "national failure."
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