actually let me rethink that. I have a grand old Idea lets move below sea level and hope and pray it doesnt flood HMMMM smart idea so i did rethink it and.....Sucks to be dem
I hope your shitting us. A huge tidal wave swallowed New Orleans...HAHAHA
You must have not been old enough to remember that the levee's collaped thus allowing the Gulf of Mexico to surge into the area that is below sea level.
humongoloid - They have huge pumps that keep the city dry. Water from the sea and rain is always rushing in, and they have to run the pumps to keep the lower part of bowl from flooding.
"Let's not rebuild in a flood prone area"...let's not rebuild on a fault line, can anyone say San Francisco. "Let's not rebuild the barn, Mary. There will just be another tornado...someday." Let's see...the last hurricane to cause this type of damage in Louisiana was 40 years ago. Let's see...alot do "self-insure" - it's called homeowner's insurance which paid out most claims contrary to belief. We can take all the precautions we want (and should) but mother nature will always top us. this is why we have a thing called property
He did not say storm surge, rather tidal surge. Tidal surges actually are rapid changes in sea level due to the tides. This causes a tidal surge to move in to or out of an inlet.
The storm surge is the onshore rush of sea water due to the storm.
Personally, I would've got the hell out BEFORE the storm! They knew it was coming and they knew it was big! The real tragedy was what happened after the storm!
so they take the SUV and head to the mountian house in Aspen, get real the point is they purchased the VCR with the bus ticket $s, they had no way to bolt.
This was predicted long ago....and published. Why no one paid attention is beyond me...ooops...I forgot...it's the U.S. government...my mistake.
Also, PLEASE people, PLEASE DO NOT BUILD ANYTHING BELOW SEA LEVEL!! especially next to the sea...duh!
and PLEASE don't R E B U I L D anything below sea level (levees or not!)
PLEASE...use your brain...if you have one.
If you are still living there...MOVE...get to higher ground...it's bound to happen again. Even though natural disasters happen everywhere...you must admit building anything below sea level is the height of stupidity (get the pun?)
Way to go Glumbert for putting this vid on near the anniversary of this horrific event.
Agreed - All land that has been flooded should be reclaimed by the US government, and left to stay wild. Americans are tired of paying for the ill planned structures in flood plains being rebuilt every 5 to 10 years. Nothing should be rebuilt below sea level or near the coast if it has been destroyed twice.
Hard for those who lived there. Stop saying they were stupid...it was their home. I would be stupid about mine. And you, yours.
Rebuilding in a flood plain invites a renewed catastrophe. Not too sure that's a cool idea... Ah well....it's OK with me if I don't have to pay for it.
God knows, that's the place to visit for amazing food. Me? I just won't own property there. If they choose to rebuild, I'll be among the first to visit. Will NOT support tax relief for anyone suffering future losses due to their vulnerability to storm damage....not a dollar. Once burned, twice learned.
It's interesting how many people are ignorant to the fact that it's IMPOSSIBLE to evacuate 10 million people from a city in a matter of hours, let alone days. Lots of people actually died en route in traffic because they ran out of gas and died of heat exhaustion on the road.
Bus ticket? Yeah right.
I don't know what to say about these people not getting the hell out. I wonder why they didn't... I wonder if they tried. Maybe they just stayed there.
You forgot to mention 10 million people in a man-made city, below sea level, with only 3 main routes to get out and a government that is afraid of hurting tourism so it doesn't issue the evac order until the last minute.
We are stupid to have allowed such growth in a place that cannot be saved no matter how much money we keep throwing at it. This, as well as all coastal homes (20 miles in and below 30' AMSL) in all hurricane prone areas, should be restricted to people who can self-insure. There is absolutely no reason why the tax payers and insurance holders of this nation should shoulder the cost of rebuilding this area. Don't think this is aimed at NEO either. I'm sick and tired of people living on barrier islands getting bailed out by FEMA. If you build on sand, your problem should not be mine.
Oh, and if you think I haven't been there... My home was in Pensacola Florida during Ivan. The eastern eye wall actually passed overhead. I lost 1 tree. The house was 110' AMSL and 9 miles from the coast and upgraded to survive 135 mph winds. I've also been through and worked recovery for 6 hurricanes in the past 6 years to include Katrina. I lived on the floor of a building in downtown Gulfport for the first 2 months after Katrina.
You can't stop damage from natural disasters, but you can do your best to avoid it. Not living in a flood prone area or at least building to accommodate it (stilts). Using building materials that withstand the excessive forces of the wind (cement homes, high-tension windows). Building structures that can take the constant mixing bowl of an earthquake. These all help. Don't ever equate a tornado to a hurricane or flood. Tornadoes are random and affect a small area. These normally do not come year after year and destroy the same house every time. Hurricanes, floods do and can be avoided. I loved the Pensacola area, but moved inland anyway.
ahh... here that last comment? "Ahll nevah stay threw anuthah hurricane agin. I will run." There you go. They didn't even try to leave. They were probably worried about robbers if they split.
just so you people know,its not below sea level everywhere in new orleans,my house was actualy 21 feet above sea level in a sarounding area and still flooded,this is a great area,lots of culture,i will admit its not very smart to live in a flood zone,buts once a place becomes home in your heart its very hard to leave.to me its no dumber than living near any ocean usa,hurricanes,tornadoes,earth quakes,and even valcanoes,they are all a part of life people,..and to ask people to give up there home and or buisness and move away from the place they call home and their family is honestly not your fucking place to do..
there is natural disasters pretty much everwhere usa,and people live in every area that has them,so is it stupid for you folks to live there??should we all pack our things and move to??????????
and as for the help we received from the gov. WE PAY TAXES TOO!!!!!!
i will admit there was way to many trashy folks taking full advantage ,but theres a lot of good people here ,who came out of their pocket to help out there neighbor,and you would be suprised on excatly how much help citizens did receive...that help has to pass through a lot of hands before it gets where it belongs
in short i hope none of you have to go through an equivilant disaster ,..BUT ..i hope your parents and your grandparents and anyone else that is close to your heart and doesn't posess the strength of heart to make itt through does,..and if they if they do i hope they happen upon your doorstep cold,and wet ,with no change of clothes and no place to live,..and i hope your government treats them the same ,and there on the street homeless and broke 2 years after that disaster hits
and we will see what kind of comments you have for them and what kinda shit you talk when its their video on glumbert
Such powerful words. I wish the government could have done MORE for you all than it did. It's sad when you watch on CNN and there's Mexicans coming across the border in army tanks willing to help. That's when you know your country has headed in the wrong direction.
We can all go ahead and talk about what this group of people should have done, and that group of people should have done, but we're not gonna get anywhere. The PAST is PAST. All we can do is just look back and learn lessons from it. That goes for the Army Corps of Engineers, the government, the people who came out to help. It's a sad government when the only place they can put you is in the Super Dome. That's no way to be treated. But enough about my griping about the government. They did the best that they could, and that FEMA guy went down like he should have. All we can do is just learn from our mistakes and try to heal. I hope to God by now you all have some place you can call home. Peace.
Jazz anyone who has ever gone to New Orleans most likely knows how nice it is and would probably return to visit , i would. i most certainly had a great time when there last Harrahs casino and the down town Aquarium were my high point . now my high point here is most of these people are funnin so try not to take it so personal :)
jazzy...thank you. Great insights from someone who lived through it. You are a compelling witness to the tragedy. The video was impressive...first hand testimony to the happenings. Good god.
There is a feeling nationally that those who suffer from natural misfortunes (and other sorts of unhappy events) should only be aided in proportion to their pre-known knowledge of the risks. That makes sense to me.
I am ab-so-freakin-ly in love with New Orleans. I learned how to eat (or NOT how to) from the jaybalaya, gumbo, and etoufee places...and real andouille and soft-shelled clams, and mud bugs...ah gharanteee....!
That said...it makes no sense at all to rebuild where you are sure to be again inundated. OK if you want to do it, and I will join you there from time to time. NOT OK IF I HAVE TO PAY FOR IT. (i.e., federal financial support).
I mean, that would be just plain dumb. Want to return to your family roots...no one will blame you. Just don't expect the rest of the republic to finance your next disaster. Sheesh...that sounds a bit harsh.
But still....if you knowingly walk into the valley of death, and get killed...you will be mourned, but not admired.
I do not understand zis allusion. Mein knowledge of ze Thespian Costner extends only to ze classic "Tin Cup" und ze hopeless "Waterworld". Oh, und of course, ze wunderbar "Dances vith Wombats", ein very long und incomprehensible film about Kevin Costner.
I read somevere zat he has ein very small villie - is zis true?
Surely ze great Yankee matinee idols all haf enormous villies?
In my first posting above i refer to the map from waterworld, i think it was tattooed upsidedown on some girls back. i never saw the end of the film as i decided to commit suicide.
I think you are being rather generous when you refer to Costner as a Thespian, apart from 'dancing with the wolfie', i think he should of been named 'i shitten my pants because i can't act'
but a touching story, where a native indian breaks her arm after falling from flossy the horse and says my arm don't work in Mohawk or Cherokee, Kevin see's his chance and removes the arm and sells it to white farmers for a pitch fork. It was a confusing time for me then, is this correct story?
I too lost ze vill to live vile votching Vatervorld. I am not familiar vith ze "selling of ze girl's arm to farmers" scene in ze epic "Dances vith Vombats".
But I seem to remember ein scene vere Costner grappled vith ein buffalo und committed ein indecent act upon it. Ze buffalo appeared unimpressed, perhaps because of ze great man's tiny villie?
ah yes the small costner willy, i heard of this problem, he has starred also in Robin Hood, where he was known as 'Robin small hood' i think this referred to his fourskin size.
In three minutes, I, throb, and trent all triple penetrated canuck's wife while douche titty f'ed her. Three minutes later, the jiz was dry and caked all over her body with the vast majority on her face. Three minutes after that, she puled her legs behind her ears and asked for more.
barnsleyfc. You have a seriouos problem with women. Did you learn evrything from the porn you watch? Women dont like triple p, take it from me.
Any time I've had it I've charged a lot and even then it isnt nice. Have some respect for canuck's wife.
FoF - you are quite right triple P is not preferred, but then with dicks the size of Throb's, Barnsley's and BileBag's, most women just wouldn't notice.
Maybe a little irritation perhaps but nothing more...
To rehash an old joke I believe we should call this lot the Thrush Triplets.
After all they are nothing more than a trio of irriating c*nts
Put some cream on them (ignore them) and they go away...
For you to have intimate knowledge on the size of our penises says a lot about you. You of course sir are always on the receiving end of everything. Rumor has it that your pelvic bone was knocked out of alignment.
Mako you keep saying we will go away. Are you putting the right cream on us or do you keep putting your topical cock cream on us so we only get harder to handle?
And the prize goes to lordandmaster ... anotehr one who believes that me, douche, barnsley, trent, etc are the same person. Get it through your thick skull moron that there are plenty of us out there.
Love it Barnsley! Fearofflying, the titty f added to the triple p makes all the difference allowing canuck's wife to enjoy it. We did get a littel worried, however, as she gasped for air insatiably gulping trent's load.
Once again, Herr Canuck, I vish to support you in vot you say about zese morons. I haf employed ze services of some - how do you say? - sadsistic bastards in mein time, but vould draw ze line at such men. Let us hope zat zere is ein cyberspace after-life vere you may meet vith zem in person und exact appropriate retribution.
i'm sure i'm not the first nor will be the last to be completely insulted by the snobbery and blatent disregard for the lives lost and even the ones saved during this tragedy. The fact that these comments turned to talk of penis size is just ridiculous. I am from Chalmette, LA and grew up there. Many people do not understand why people did not leave. If for years you knew you lived in a bowlthat could possibly flood and for the length of your own life nothing had happened despite the many warnings to date...would you leave your home and all your belongings and spend all the money fleeing a storm that may possibly never arrive? To the rest of the world it looked ridiculous because they had been watching the warnings. Sure...Hindsight is 20-20. But if you had learned to disregard most of the trumped up previous warnings, why would you spend much time looking at what you thought was just the most recent one. What you saw in the video was the richest part of Chalmette. But what you may think to be rich is not the same as it is in that town. This part of Louisiana is industrial and not everyone has the money to just hop a bus or spend tons of money in gas fleeing when you have to sit in traffic for hours upon hours in stand still traffic with the other people who are trying to get the hell out because they were actually scared enough to leave. But enough of the diatribe....my point is that you shouldn't criticize those who stayed when you've never had to make such a kind of decision ever in your life. Did you actually listen to what he was saying??? His main concern was for the life of his neighbors, his wife, his pets. Please be more considerate to life
This was an able bodied family with transportation to leave Louisiana before the Category 5 monster Hurricane Katrina arrived. Having grown up in the Chocolate City, I have no pity whatsoever for this man and wife. I am sad that they lost property due to the storm, however, they made their bed by staying home for a CATEGORY 5 HURRICANE, so now they must sleep in their water soaked bed!
Lots of crude comments on here, from immature people hiding behind phony names so that they can insult without embarassment and who miss the point. My thanks to the photographer for making his personal experience available to those of us who appreciate it. As has been already proven in various legal circles, and as has been admitted to by the Army Corps of Engineers, had the levees met appropriate standards this tragedy would not have occured. This country has levees in every state in just as bad shape.
Crude huh? Am I hiding behind my radio show that you can listen to at davesworldview.com? Every person living in Louisiana knows that political corruption for decades has led to poor infrastructure. That is beside my point of personal responsibility. That husband was a pitiful husband to not evacuate his wife out of south Louisiana with a CATEGORY 5 HURRICANE about to hit. So you can keep whining all you want, I am here to tell the truth.
How sad that you people comment on things that you really know nothing about. Our wetlands (our first defense against hurricanes) have been ruined by the oil companies. You know the ones that YOU use to put gas in your car. Also the natural gas you use for your heating and cooking comes from this area also. If we were to move as you suggested you would be paying $6 a gallon for gas never mind the cost of natural gas. Also you would have a hard time buying most of the things you are use to buy because we are at the mouth of the river which means NOTHING can go up river if we are here to work the ports. So please do some research before you speak of things you know nothing about. About federal $$$. If the federal government wouldn't have been taking our money from the sale of oil (other states get 50%) we wouldn't need federal money for anything. SO next time you want to make these stupid comments ask yourself exactly what are YOU willing to pay for us to shut down New Orleans or for LA to close her borders!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
"Our wetlands (our first defense against hurricanes) have been ruined by the oil companies."
Actually your wetlands were destroyed by dredging and straighting the Mississippi river for boat traffic, which destroyed the alluvial fan. The sedimentary process was transferred to much deeper waters in the Gulf.
I feel for this couple and all of the other families out there who stayed. I lived in Chalmette years ago. I don't understand how anyone could stay. When I found out that it was a Cat 5, my family and I got out of dodge. We didn't need the government to issue a mandatory evacuation, we watched the news. There are too many people who want to blame the government... It is not the government's responsiblility to tell people to leave. It is common sense to leave. I also understand that there are many elderly people who needed to get out. Everyone has a family, and if they don't, they have neighbors! I knew where all of my family and neighbors evacuated to. We took care of each other! If you had no way to leave...call someone to help. As far as FEMA goes, I think there are too many people who expect a handout. I have flood insurance even though I do not live in a flood zone... $250.00 a year. Why would you not have it? You cannot expect the government to bail you out because you make poor choices!!!!
I truly hope this family is well and have rebuilt their lives... God Bless!
Most of the people who have posted here should be ashamed. Do your research before making such snap judgments about the worst natural disaster in the history of our county. You have no idea what it means to live in Metro New Orleans. By the way, we weren't actually hit by the CAT 5 hurricane. The winds experienced in the Metro New Orleans area were less than a CAT 3. The massive flooding occured AFTER the storm passed when the levees failed. We were deceived by our government - they claimed we were protected from storms up to a CAT 3. The majority of the people who stayed through the storm didn't have the means to leave. And not everyone has people to depend on in a time of crisis. Check out this website for the facts: http://www.levees.org/factsheet. You should all sit up and pay attention. The next man made American disaster could be in your city.
Even though I am disappointed in the comments that I read here, I still pray that you and your families never have to experience anything similar to what we have endured since Katrina. I also pray that each of you can learn compassion. By the way, if you took the time to learn about New Orleans, you would learn about how important our port city is for the economy of our nation. And if you've never visited, you have no idea what a treasure New Orleans is to our nation.
Oh my! Say it isn't so! There are actually folks out there who don't like Louisiana. Isn't that a crying shame! I wonder how you'll like it if Louisiana stopped participating in the American economy. I wonder how you'd like it if the petroleum pumped off the shores of our state and refined in our state stopped flowing to your gas pumps in Yankeeland. I wonder how the exporters up north would like it if they couldn't get their products down the Mississippi and out into the Gulf of Mexico. I wonder how America would like it if the Port of New Orleans shut it out. Oh how you'd whine if the price of gas went up because Louisiana got sick of the BS it keeps getting from the rest of the country.
I wonder if France will take us back? I'm sure they'd love to. At least we'd all have access to healthcare.
Like it or not, you're all stuck with us. Deal with it.
So sad, huh? Karma - someday those of you who find this amusing will probably find yourself in similar situations - albeit loss of a community via fire, flood, terrorists attack, earthquake, tonadoes or worse. It's only a matter of time. When you stand in our shoes, your comments will then be validated. :)
I can't believe some of the hate that has been posted on here!! My gosh people where is your empathy for these people that have lost everything!! vschott used the word Karma!! and for all the people that haven't a heart for what these people went through Karma will be.. For the government and all the offical that did not do there job.. Karma will be.. but people come on!! have some love!! and stop all this hate that seems to spreading like an out of control fire.. PEACE!!!
I grew up in the ninth ward and moved to Chalmette and lived there for 30 years. We moved to Slidell 4 years before Katrina. We are 12 feet above sea level in Slidell, but had 3 feet of water from the Lake Pontchartrain surge. The point I want to make is that this storm affected thousands of people all along the coast many miles inland whether they were above sea level or not. There are experts who say it is a matter of time before a California earthquake sends it into the Pacifici Ocean, Miami is due for a Cat 5 hurricane and New York a tidal wave . What do you suggest these people do????
All it took was one week for me to fall in love with Southern LA. It wasn't just the land, but the people. The love of home, the fierce loyalty to it, and the stubbornness to make the best of things was amazing. So much so that my family is in the process of moving away from the man-made economic disaster brewing here in Western WA to Baton Rouge LA.
The level of ignorance shown in some of the comments here is sickening. Katrina didn't cause that flooding and it wasn't the Federal government that caused the problems. It was the levees breaking because they were poorly built and local politics that snarled things up. New Orleans wasn't the only place hit, but you hear little about the rest of the problems because other local governments responded better. People stayed either because they couldn't leave or they trusted those levees would hold. The disaster was so wide spread that there was only so much the governments at all levels could do. It was so bad that it was hard to get help *IN* to begin with. people were shooting at those who were coming into help. How is that the fault of the government? Natural disasters happen everywhere, you can't escape them, it just a matter of what you're willing to tolerate. Here in WA it's earthquakes and volcanoes. The Midwest it's tornadoes and harsh winters. The whole eastern seaboard gets slammed with noreasters every winter. It's a roll of the dice.
For those who posted about their personal experiences - Thank you. I talked to a LOT of folks when I was down there. It was that love and loyalty I heard, even in the worst of the tales, that helped me fall in love with SoLA. I've lived in a lot of places in this country but this is the first place I've ever been able to consider as a permanent home outside of Western WA. All I can do is take the lessons learned from Katrina and be as prepared as I can for what may come...as prepared as I am here in WA for our particular brands of possible disaster.
I would just like to point out that New Orleans was founded in the early 1700s and due to French and Spanish influence is beautiful. It's one thing to tell people not to rebuild a few hundred farmhouses along some flooded river, but this lovely and historic place deserves rebuilding and protecting if anything in the US does.
Visit! You'll see one of the few cities in the US that doesn't look like a crazy automobile race track/retail-strip-mall sprawling wasteland.
The ignorance I have read here is laughable. I had to throw my 2 cents in. To all you folks not wanting to rebuild New Orleans, not wanting your money or federal government money to be spent on the people from the New Orleans area, which for me was $4358, plus the Corps of Engineers picked up some trash, trees etc. in front of my house, granted I didn’t flood, how has Katrina effected your personnel budget or tax bill? I don’t think Katrina raised your personnel taxes one penny.
Now a little education for you: The Corp of Engineers does not like to speak in terms of this Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Category Scale, Cat 1 cat 2 etc. They like to put it in terms of how often an event can be expected to occur. Katrina as a Cat 3 has been categorized as a 400 year event. For comparison, Camille hit land as a Cat 5 and is considered a 100 year event. Katina was huge, the largest storm surge to ever hit North America. Do you think this country with 2.7 trillion dollar budget this past FY, the richest county in the world, spending 500 billion in Iraq, do you think this country should be able to afford to give a little help a major city in this county? When a major disaster occurs, A 400 YEAR EVENT. If some disaster ends up affecting your community you would like a little help? I’m willing to happily watch my government help your community in your time of need. A 400 YEAR EVENT folks.
How can anyone watch this video and make such ignorant remarks?
Thank god some aren't so simpleminded as to observe New Orleans is below sea level as if a point is proved. Very few, if any, areas are immune to natural disasters and Katrina was the WORST in U.S. history. Should most people in California and elsewhere living near fault lines move? There are fault lines all over the USA and one day a big one will strike the East coast, even New York City. They better get out now because it WILL happen.
New Orleans is still a major US port. Southern Louisiana supplies a significant amount of natural gas and crude oil to the USA. Hell, Louisiana supplies 20% of the sugar consumed and ranks #7 in cotton production in the USA. After hurricane Betsy in 1965 the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers planned and designed flood protection systems that were perennially under- or un-funded over the next 40 years. The cost of building decent levees in the first place is chump change compared to the cost of recovery after Katrina. If Louisiana seceded from the USA we could live quite easily selling our natural resources.
Katrina did not hit New Orleans directly. Most of the city was covered by the northwest quadrant, the area of the hurricane with the lowest impact. Most of the flooding occurred AFTER Katrina passed. Tidal surges from the northeast, equivalent to a Category 2 hurricane at most, breached numerous drainage canal levees and wiped out miles and miles of New Orleans neighborhoods.
Added to that dangerous combination was criminal negligence on the part of local, state, and especially federal authorities. It was clear by Saturday wherever Katrina landed there would be massive destruction and if New Orleans took a direct hit the potential for loss of life was great. President Bush was videotaped participating in a video-conference in which it was plainly stated by various expert advisors the likelihood of a major catastrophe was great. So where were National Guard and FEMA and other national disaster-preparedness and response personnel, who should have been stationed in safe areas by Monday morning to begin rescue efforts as soon as possible? The only Federal agency to respond immediately was the U.S. Coast Guard. They were rescuing people as soon as it was safe to fly helicopters and enter with boats and many worked 16 hour shifts before resting a few hours to go back out for 16 more. Countries from around the world volunteered to send trained rescuers and medical professionals and other people to help but almost all were turned away.
Here is a quote from an article from the San Francisco Chronicle's website,
"At first, the only rescuers on hand were the residents and officials of St. Bernard Parish. Two days after Katrina hit, a team of Vancouver Urban Search and Rescue showed up to help, and a sprinkling of officials from neighboring parishes paid visits, but it would be days before there was any sign of assistance from the U.S. government.
"I'm saying, where's the Department of Defense?" said parish Sheriff Jack Stephens. "The Canadians can show up, but the Department of Defense can't get to St. Bernard Parish?" " ----end of quote----
Ray Nagin and Kathleen Blanco are idiots and didn't help but Katrina was more than one city or one state could handle (and I often have to remind people Mississippi's Gulf Coast was hit directly and damage extended to Mobile, Alabama).
After the Twin Towers were destroyed on 9/11 did people think "That's going to happen in New York so they should move and they can dig themselves out of the mess?" The devastation of 9/11 occurred in an area of a few square miles. The destruction from Katrina extended hundreds of square miles of almost total obliteration. The destruction of New Orleans occurred because Louisiana has never been much of a concern for the U.S. government. When budgets needed slashing to fund the DOD and other more important priorities flood protection for this part of the country was repeatedly underfunded. The U.S. Corps of Engineers knew our flood protection was unreliable but, like good civil servants, kept looking busy even if nothing was being accomplished.
What makes me most sad and angry is the people who have died since Katrina who would otherwise probably be alive today. My Aunt Ruth and Uncle Bob died within a few months of each other earlier this year. Their house of over 50 years was flooded above the ceiling for days or weeks. They had no antique furniture or expensive jewelery but would have happily traded all the money they had for a few photographs, at least some of Uncle Bob's books collected over his lifetime and other intrinsically more valuable possessions. My best friend's mother died a few weeks ago because on August 29, 2005, her life changed entirely in one day. She was placed in a nursing home in Baton Rouge several weeks after Katrina because the 3 children and 2 assistants who cared for her were in different cities and no one person could have taken on full time care. It took two years for her to succumb but she is as much a victim of Katrina as anyone who died during or shortly after it hit. In 2006 the region's suicide rate increased significantly and mental health professionals were and are scarce but much needed for a large number of people still in stages of post-traumatic-stress.
This nation learned many lessons from Katrina and for the first time in modern history the world saw a raw, shocking picture of poverty and neglect in the USA, a seeming conundrum in the wealthiest country. Part of the picture of Katrina was of poverty, not race per se, but the undeniable fact is in a 65 % Black city with high poverty rates among Blacks the majority of people stuck in hell holes like the Dome Stadium or Morial Convention Center were Black. Kanye what's-his-face was correct when he said "George Bush doesn't care about Black people" but Bush doesn't give a crap about anyone without enough wealth to be a patron or well-healed connection at the least. He'll gladly accept money no matter what the amount of melanin in your skin is.
If I tick off anyone for Bush-bashing, too bad. I'd say I'm sorry but it would be a lie. Bush is the worst President of my lifetime and I was a kid during Nixon and a 20 something during Reagan's reign of terror.
Interesting that those of you that talk the longest and loudest have NO clue what goes on here in Louisiana. Our wetlands (our first line of defense) are being destroyed at an alarming rate each day, yet the government can't seem to get it together long enough to tackle the problem. And yes, this includes politicians from EVERY state. Yes, we have known for MANY years that a storm like Katrina could put us under water, but Katrina was a CATAGORY 3 when she hit land.. NOT a 5 as some of you seem to think. New Orleans has weathered many Cat. 3 storms without so much as a sneeze. What happened here, was a result of government corruption, inept politicians and greed. Of course if is cheaper to build inferior levees that structurally sound ones, and that is what happened. The city suffered a MAN-MADE disaster, not a natural one. So for those of you that have NO clue what goes on here...keep your insignificant opinion to yourself...we have work to do here and don't have time for your dribble !!
To some of you folks I've read. You have honestly, NO idea what was going on. My favorite part about the aftermath and during is what everyone who DIDN'T LIVE HERE had to say.
Why didn't everyone just leave? you knew it was bad. What about the thousands of people in old folks homes that were immobile and FEMA took their bus? What would you say to the ones that survived. What about people with NO cars. NO money. And I am not talking St. Bernard parish here. Do you think it's easy just to get up and leave? No it isn't. It's costly.
What about a 14 year old girl who was trapped in her house because her parents LEFT her there. What would you say to her? well why didn't you leave. And when your home has been your home, your family's home for some hundred years, what would you do? just leave? give up on a place you love. no, I don't think you would. Oh George Bush hates black people. Maybe he does, but he surely seems to love the Iraqui government and all their gas. Maybe he'd have sent help if we had more Oil, no? And that touching video of him flying over new orleans with a sad face. He can go to hell. And it wasn't just the storm to be afraid of, what about being STUCK in a superdome where the ARMY is screaming at you to run for your life. Do you know how terrifying it was to be away from home and think. WOW no home to go to. What about the people who are being screwed by contractors out here. good people. WE ARE GOOD PEOPLE. Do I have pitty for the people who stayed because they just didn't want to go. NO. that was their decision, and may they be blessed. What about all the "assisted" suicides. The aftermath of Katrina where mexicans are raping little girls and watching your home, your families home, your ancesters home turn into a rape infested, house looting shit hole. oh and SURPRISE your premiums just sky rocketed AGAIN.
While everyone agrees this was a catastrophe, why do the ignorant all blame Bush for this? Ray Nagin and Kathleen Blanco are the criminally guilty here. Nagin guilty of corruption, and neglect of proper citywide disaster planning. Blanco guilty of refusing federal offers of assistance for several days. Yes folks, Bush offered assisstance to Blanco, and she refused it. Bush is bound by something called the constitution, which states he has to respect the rights of states, even their right to be total dumbasses. The US military is not intended to be used to invade a US state against that state governors orders
I'm not saying Bush or FEMA did a great job, but had Blanco accepted federal assistance when offered, help sure would have arrived much sooner.
Now that I've offended all those that dream of a government controlled utopia, what's a P-rog? Is that like a canoe?
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