Regarding the Hurricanes... Worst of 2005 amended

My wife pointed out to me that my take on the hurricane in the Best Worst of 2005 list was shallow, political, and disappointing. I guess I took for granted that of course I think the two major hurricanes that hit Florida and Louisiana were devastating, horrible, and worth mentioning as "the worst of 2005." You have to realize that I have been sitting in philosophy classes at the U of MN where Bush has been set up as the whipping boy for a natural disaster--as if he was the cause of the catastrophes--so I forgot to mention the disasters qua disasters. I also had to endure the blaming of "progress" as the cause of the hurricanes in my Spanish class. They blamed factories and industrialization as the cause of the hurricanes. I ask those who believe this junk-science to do a bit more research on the cyclical nature of hurricanes before resulting to this knee-jerk reaction to blame man. So now I amend my list with my apologies to those who have lost loved ones or property to mother nature:

WORST OF 2005: Hurricanes! Katrina was a once-in-a-century disaster and the images from New Orleans were... well, I don't know the word as I have nothing to compare them to. I have seen these images from 3rd world countries, but never before from America (not including man-made disasters ala 9-11). It was surreal--but the nightmare was indeed real. Katrina was definitely the worst of 2005.