The ability to predict precisely when and where the next natural disaster, industrial accident, or terrorist attack will strike is limited. And, given the circumstances and difficulty of predicting which adversary will strike and how it will strike, DHS did the best they could. When it came to natural disasters such as Hurricane Katrina. A main circumstances of DHS leadership failing was the inability to understand Katrina as an incident of national significance on par with September 11 2001 (9/11). Instead, they responded to the disaster as if it was a routine natural disaster until it was too late. After Katrina made landfall, authorities understood the devastation was serious but, due to the destruction and response capabilities, lacked