Righteous Anger

by Kathy K McClellan

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Righteous Anger

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Kathy K McClellan

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Photograph - Photographs

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When Hurricane Katrina hit the Missisippi Gulf Coast the insurance industry blamed almost all damage on the storm surge knowing that would release them from their responsibility to pay wind and homeowner claims. Residents, engineers and scientists know for a fact that there was an enormous amount of wind damage before any water flooded the coast.

Residents were angry that they had paid high premiums to be covered for wind damage but were not being paid for that damage. Taxpayers were angry that the National Flood Insurance Program was having to pay for flood damage even though quite a bit of that damage was caused by wind. It appeared as though everyone lost out except for the insurance industry who made millions of dollars of profit even after paying a small percentage of Hurricane Katrina claims.

This image contains a few of the signs that residents made out of scrap wood found in the debris fields. These signs were posted in front of travel trailers that were being lived in and placed where homes once stood.

These photographs were taken in Bay Saint Louis, MS, ground zero for Hurricane Katrina.

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May 17th, 2015

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