Historically, humans get serious about avoiding disasters only after one has just struck them. 62 that logic. 2006 should have been a breakthrough year for rational behavior. With the memory of 9/11 still 63 in their minds, Americans watched hurricane Katrina. the most expensive disaster in U.S. history, on 64 TV. Anyone who didn't know it before should have learned that bad things can happen. And they are made 65 worse by our willful blindness to risk as much as our 66 to work together before everything goes to hell. Granted, some amount of delusion (错觉） is probably pan of the 67 condition. In A.D. 63. Pompeii was seriously damaged by an earthquake, and the locals immediately went to work 68 . in the same spot—until they were buried altogether by a volcano eruption 16 years later. But a 69 of the past year in disaster history suggests that modern Americans are particularly bad at 70 themselves from guaranteed threats. We know more than we 71 did about the dangers we face. But it turns _72_that in limes of crisis, our greatest enemy is _73_ the storm,the quake or the _74_itself More often ,it is ourselves.
So what has happened in the year lhal_75_the disaster on the Gulf Coast? In New Orleans, the Army Corps of Engineers has worked day and night to rebuild the flood walls. They have got the walls to _76_ they were before Katrina, more or less. That's not_77_. we can now say with confidence. But it may be all_78_can be expected from one year of hustle (忙碌). Meanwhile, New Orleans officials have crafted a plan to use buses and trains to_79_the sick and the disabled. The city estimates that 15.000 people will need a _80_ out. However, state officials have not yet determined where these people will be taken. The_81_with neighboring communities are ongoing and difficult.
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