UPDATE: Also check out this NASA satellite retrospective of their best images from the storm.

After writing my initial look back at Hurricane Katrina earlier this week, a couple items have come to the surface that I wanted to point out. First, we have done a news story and a couple of videos (one of which is shown below) for the 5-year retrospective. Also here's a new graphic that we've made:

Second, I read the chapters on Katrina in Mike Smith's book "Warnings." Because the disaster, and the blame game, took so long to transpire, and it's been so long, I didn't really have in my head where the personnel failures had taken place. Mike has some great insight into that and it was a good refresher. But don't take my word for it, here's a portion of a review by R&B Blog :

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