Katrina : Thoughts that have been on my mind...

[bud36light]

Some body gave a rats ass cause when I DROVE through there were sandbags 10 feet tall around all the man hole covers and such. But man I think I know where your coming from. That was a serious flood (some dumbass blew the levee) and it for sure didnt get the attention this ones getting. And to top it all off that is a historical district too!

[RednBlack]

It got attention. Just not on this type of scale. Jeez! How can you compare the 2?

[StudlyCamaro]

How can you compare the 2?

simple, the flod in 93 impacted my life a lot (you know, having a boil order for 2-3 months and not having running water for over a month, and sand bagging to keep the downtown district of my city dry for a week)

and to tell you the truth this disaster didnt really touch me at all... thats how i can compare it, i dont have a TV (well i have one locked up in a storage locker) and i only know one person from the enw orleans area, and she evacuated and had a tree fall on her house, but the house is fine

aond to top it off i dont really care much about posessions, so people that complain that they lost stuff can go cry to someone else, im a borderline minimalist with an interest in cars (although if it were to be taken by some crazy happening i wouldnt care all that much, i can replace it)(and if i were in the huricane's path i would have moved my car anyway)

the biggest impact the hurricane has had on me is that at work i have to move some extra mail around ever once in a while because the post office wont take mail for 47 zip codes

as for the people that died, yes thats sad, but its not like they didnt have the warning to get out...

[Doward]

They knew it was coming. Period.

The SuperDome should have been burned, with all the crack dealers inside.

Am I the ONLY one that saw this coming? As soon as I saw Katrina was going to nail New Orleans (and as someone that spent approx 7 months there when I was 12-13) I knew it was going to turn into a cess pool of human waste.

I figured a bunch of people would die, and there would be mass looting. There are a LOT of drugs/dealers in NO, and I thought this would happen.

I don't feel bad in the least about it. Like I said, they were warned, and they should have gotten out. I know that sounds cold and callous, but that's the truth. 'Oh, nobody knew it would be so strong!' It's a HURRICANE. THE MOST DESTRUCTIVE STORM NATURE HAS. I mean... if I have to actually explain that.. then... wow.

[614streets]

new orleans is the filtheist city in the usa. god was just giving a warning cleaning to thoose rat ass people. I lived through 3 canes and during charley had the red cross set up across the street , i never took any donation unlike the filthy spains and toughed it out myself try 6 days no power with no access to food water or fuel and manage to do school and work at the same time. I did. Who gives a shit. and call it my racist side.

[RednBlack]

GWB has an excellent telepromter. Never once took his eyes off it. Good speech. Now, back up your mouth with your ass. Time will tell.

President is just a figurehead, makes suggestions, and I do feel his heart is in in this one, but, as he said, we, the American public make the difference.


And we have already. To me, it is hard to pass up a Red Cross can, without dropping a dollar in. I am not rich, but I was poor. And I didn't even know it.

As far as the initial response, What would you do? Someone explain to me how the response to this magnitude of disaster could have been better? Just what could anyone have done different? Forget how the levees could have been better, forget how the city SHOULD have been evacuated 2 days before. Blame game is over. Mother Nature won.

We get to fix it. And we will.

Don't say there wasn't a warning. Even a peon like myself saw it coming.

Here we are again...Hurricane Katrina is "barreling", (excuse the pun), towards the Louisiana coastline, taking some more of our already shaken oil rigs with it. Sustained winds as of 11 AM EST @ 175 MPH. And you think you pay a lot for gas now?

And as if that's not enough, 2 more possible "Big Winds", are forming off the African coast.

And for the people in New Orleans and surrounding area. GET THE FUCK OUTA THERE!! And good luck. Hopefully, the Military will step in and help with the evacuation.

So, peace, and just drop a dollar.

And Studly...you know how it feels to be a victim. Displaced, life up-side down.

Pretty much reiterates what Brad started out with.

[RednBlack]

Blame? ........."A God of Your Choice!"

[Lyle's GTP]

new orleans is the filtheist city in the usa. god was just giving a warning cleaning to thoose rat ass people. I lived through 3 canes and during charley had the red cross set up across the street , i never took any donation unlike the filthy spains and toughed it out myself try 6 days no power with no access to food water or fuel and manage to do school and work at the same time. I did. Who gives a shit. and call it my racist side.

Fuckin' eh!! That's the way you do it.

Never been in a "disaster" myself but I live in Canada. They call it a disaster around here when the wheat doesn't grow. Suck it up and deal with it. Someone always has it worse.

Lyle

[bszopi]

Latest info from CNN about the evacuees...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Fewer than half of the Hurricane Katrina evacuees living in shelters in the Houston area want to go home again, according to a poll by The Washington Post and the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.

Forty-three percent said they want to move back home when they can. About the same number of evacuees -- 44 percent -- said they want to permanently relocate, and most of them wanted to stay in Houston, said the poll published Friday.

The slow response to the storm strained faith in government. Six in 10 said the experience has made them feel that the government doesn't care about people like them.

But their religious faith has been strengthened, eight in 10 said. And 90 percent were hopeful about the future.

The evacuees polled, all from New Orleans or elsewhere in Louisiana, also said:


More than half of their homes were destroyed. Two-thirds were renting their homes and a third were owners.


Almost three-fourths don't have insurance to cover their losses.


More than half didn't have health insurance, a usable credit card with them, or a bank or checking account from which they could withdraw money.


Nearly three-fourths heard before the hurricane hit that an evacuation order had been given; a fourth did not.


More than two-thirds said they didn't evacuate because they didn't realize how bad the storm and its aftermath would be. More than half -- 55 percent -- said one factor was that they didn't have a car or a way to leave.

The survey of 680 randomly selected evacuees at Houston-area shelters was conducted September 10-12 by ICR. The margin of error is plus or minus 4 percentage points. The Harvard School of Public Health collaborated on the project.

[weisinator]

On the flip side, four chefs who evacuated to a shelter in Omaha are looking at starting a restraunt there, they cooked Gumbo for 500 this last Saturday at a pizza place in Benson. I wasn't there.

New Orleans might not be the same, but neither will the rest of the country. If that means good Cajun/Creole/Soul food and delta blues spread around the nation, count me in.

[RednBlack]

On the flip side, four chefs who evacuated to a shelter in Omaha are looking at starting a restraunt there, they cooked Gumbo for 500 this last Saturday at a pizza place in Benson. I wasn't there.

New Orleans might not be the same, but neither will the rest of the country. If that means good Cajun/Creole/Soul food and delta blues spread around the nation, count me in.

Creole in Nebraska! Sounds like some people were relocated to a nice place! That's cool!

As of today, my company and 4 other plastic manufacturing companies, have shipped 2 loads of food to the delta region. Not New Orleans. Miss., and Ala. They are distributing it throughout the Gulf region as needed.

It was amazing Saturday, to see the cars lined up. Never saw so much diverse food in my life!

2 Semi Trucks left yesterday morning.(Sunday)

And not even a Mayor showed up. We can take care of ourselves.
And someday, it might get worse. And it might be you.

Neat how the Mayor of New Orleans wants his business back. Dick didn't even have a plan. Wanna play the "Blame Game?" This is probably more of a local fault, than Federal.

Now, that no one is in his town, Nagin, decides to halt all of this, in light of a hurricane. That is a thousand miles away. This guy get a wake up call?

He has people dead and displaced, and he wants to hear Jazz? Go to Nebraska my friend, drop your mayornism and get a job in a slaughter house. Rent for more money than you make.

People like this piss me off.

You may think you live outside of this thing, but it will affect us all. I feel fortunate.

And with that, I get off my box. Peace.

Edited, Poll on AOL.

Nagin's handling of the Katrina disaster?
Poor 67%
Good 12%
Fair 11%
Excellent 9%
Who's done a better job during the crisis?
President Bush 69%
Mayor Nagin 31%
Total Votes: 62,689