What can people who care do to help New Orleans and the Gulf Coast?

Question

Ten days ago, workers cleaning a house in New Orleans found a body of a man who died in the flood. He is the twenty-third person found dead from the storm since March.

Over two hundred thousand people have not yet made it back to New Orleans. Vacant houses stretch mile after mile, neighborhood after neighborhood. Thousands of buildings remain marked with brown ribbons where floodwaters settled. Of the thousands of homes and businesses in eastern New Orleans, thirteen percent have been re-connected to electricity.

The mass displacement of people has left New Orleans older, whiter, and more affluent. African-Americans, children, and the poor have not made it back - primarily because of severe shortages of affordable housing.

Thousands of homes remain just as they were when the floodwaters receded - ghost-like houses with open doors, upturned furniture, and walls covered with growing mold.

Answer 1

Yes, the people of New Orleans still need our help. The only thing I can think of is to complain to our elected officials about the way the clean up is being handled. Maybe starting a voting block based on this issue could help, but frankly, the cost to rebuild is far too overwhelming for most everyone effected by the hurricane. We should pray for them and speak up and out for them.

Answer 2

The best thing that could have happened to the people of New Orleans was to have a new mayor.But they instead elected that idiot Nagin into office again. There he is with all his promises, and no action. Who will he blame next time? And why my heart breaks for the children and the elderly of this city those people I see everyday on the news complaining are the ones that could be working to clean up their city and finding those who have perished in the storm. But no they had rather sit in a tent or stand on a corner and hope that a t.v. crew comes by so the can bash the president or the rest of the country for not doing enough.

Answer 3

New Orleans is a sinking city that sits below sea level and was inhabited by mostly poor people who had never been out of their state. All they knew is what their democratic leaders were telling them. If ever there was an example of what happens when everyone firmly believes their democratic party, New Orleans was it. Those people left, many of them in a miraculous sort of way were brought up out of their little bubble life and now see how the rest of the world lives.

Rebuild it, they aren't going back. Ray Nagin dreams of his chocolate city like pie in the sky. This may sound cruel, but maybe another hurricane will hit it this year and finally swamp it forever. It's stupid to put money back into a city that was slowly disappearing into the earth on it's own. And rebuilding levee's to withstand a CAT 3 is nothing short of absolute retarded thinking.