Hurricane Isaac roared through the Carribean and into the United States recently. The difference in the destruction between the Carribean island of Haiti and the southern coast of the US is stark. In Haiti, as a tropical storm, Isaac killed 24 people at latest count. As a hurricane, Isaac will certainly cause material destruction and inconvenience but will most likely not result in the loss of life like that in Haiti. On the one hand, in a country with little infrastructure and emergency preparedness, the death toll is great. On the other hand in a country with every conceivable advantage, we suffer property damage. It's quite a contrast that two countries two hours apart and connected by the same hemisphere suffer such different fates.
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