David's Medienkritik is reporting that German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder is comparing the European floods of 2005 and 2002 to hurricane Katrina and its aftermath.

Katrina was simply so much larger in scope than recent German floods that to speak of them in the same breath is sheer absurdity. Yet Gerhard Schroeder did exactly that in a major, nationally televised election debate watched by well over 20 million German viewers. The Chancellor first pointed to "noticeable differences" in Germany's response to recent floods versus the US response to Hurricane Katrina, clearly implying that the German response was far better and that the "difference" in response justifies a large state.

Unfortunately for the Chancellor - we have had ample experience of HUGE disasterous floods in the US that he could use for comparison. The Great Flood of 1993 being the most recent.

There are pictures of the 1993 flooding here and here and here. Those are just 3 picks from a google of "1993 floods".

Yes, the European floods were a disaster - but lets compare flood to flood - not flood to hurricane... even if there is a flood resulting from the hurricane. And yes... the response to those floods in the US was very different than the response to Katrina - as it should be. Sheesh.

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