I am so angry when people refer to Hurricane Katrina victims and only mention New Orleans!!!!?

Question

I am from DIberville, Mississippi. We lost everything to Hurrincane Katrina. We had to move to Maryland because we had no home and nowhere to stay in Mississippi. We have been living in low income housing since we moved here. How come whenever someone mentions Hurricane Katrina, everyone thinks about New Orleans? I mean, the whole lower South was affected by Hurricane Katrina. Gulfport, MS, Biloxi, MS and others have lost everything as well. People, stop thinking of New Orleans when you say Hurricane Katrina!!!!!! Anyone else feel this way?

Answer 1

I completely understand where you are coming from. I moved from New Orleans 3 years ago and most of my family lives there- I also know some people in Mississippi and surrounding areas so by personal contact, I am pretty aware of the areas that were affected and how badly.
Living in washington state while this was going on, had I not had any personal connections , I would not have had a clue. My husband and I watched CNN and many other news reports during this event and we were so angry and frustrated. I am not exaggerating when I tell you that 90 % of the footage and reporst were focused SOLEY on the Superdome. There was NO mention about the hospital nearby that my husbands family were trapped in for a week, there was NO mention of the nearby "white " neighborhood that was completely devastated and my sisterinlaw and her family lost everything because water covered the roof. There were VERY brief mentions of areas in Mississippi, we were waiting on word from my friends family and saw nothing about the Mississippi neighborhood she lived in that was just about completely wiped out. Don't blame the people, they were kept ignorant by the media. I don't know why they did this- the media really did a bang up job of making this a black / white issue and the areas that are predominately white who lost just as much if not more got absolutely no media attention. I talk to people and they still don't realize how widespread the devestation was. We were all duped by the media and the government of New Orleans who used this tragedy as a means to further their agenda.

Answer 2

I agree. The only reason New Orleans gets all the attention is because it was a bigger city, and that's what grabs the viewers. There were so many towns that were more badly damaged by Katrina than NOLA.

I grew up in California, and with the '89 earthquake, everyone was obsessed with the media coverage of San Francisco-- even though there were lots more communities affected.

The media loves to show destruction, and there's always more in the larger cities. People tune in to see that kind of thing. I personally think they need to focus more on the story of people needing aid, rather than the broken bridges or flooded streets.

Answer 3

Thank you, for speaking out,, I feel the same way,,, the other cities that were affect, are just as important as New Orleans,,,,, after seeing what most of the people did with the donations from there, I regret giving. But we also sent things to Mississippi, and those people seemed more pleased than New Orleans,, (which seemed not pleased , just wanted more) The people of New Orleans did not seem grateful, I'm sure we heard about the worse people on the news and there are good people there, but one bad apples spoils the bag.So sorry for your lose, ya'll were in our prayers.

Answer 4

Well Probably because the damage done to New Orleans was massive in scale and the comparative dollar value and death toll so massively dwarfs what happenned to other cities and towns that it's trivial in scope. there was damage to homes in Texas but not many of them were hit by other buildings then burried under 14 feet of water. When you say Holocaust most people think about the losses of the Jews but thousands of Gypsies were put to death as well as arabs and at least 1 inuit. Generally the human mind tends to scale horror into something more managable. People can't deal with what happened in New Orleans, it's a lot to ask them to realize that the destruction was even more widespread.

Answer 5

I hadn't thought much about it, but it is a really good point. We just aren't used to natural disasters as big as Katrina was. I guess it is hard for most people to wrap their heads around just how much damage the hurricane did. We saw those images of New Orleans, and that was almost too much to fathom. It seems really hard to image that much damage multiplied by miles and miles of other coastal areas. Your question has reminded me that a lot of people were affected, and I am sorry that your life is still being disrupted by the results of the storm.

Answer 6

I have never heard of Diberville, Gulfport or Biloxi and I doubt if many others around the world have. I am sorry for your loss but don't expect to change the world because you don't like what people think. Sure reality is complex but the Media needs to sell a simple story. Being angry doesn't solve anything, try to focus that energy into rebuilding your life.

Answer 7

Amen honey!!! Biloxi is not even there!!!!!!!!! Nothine but slabs of concrete, so I know what you mean, and I've been to New Orleans since the hurricane and bought beauty supplies and it looks a lot better that the Gulf coast area. The businesses are back up and running, but the coast and other areas were hit extremely worst.............. I guess you had to be there!!!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 8

Most of the Gulf Coast suffered with Katrina, New Orleans became complicated by the levees collapsing and flooding.

The situation was exacerbated by the failure of the LA. politicians and their ineptness, resulting in needless deaths. Naturally, the media feasted on this.

Unfortunately, there are those who think they can endure such disasters and never think about the rescue squads that have to risk their own lives to save them due to self stupidity.

Galveston was 90% + evacuated but one dipshit drunk who stayed was swimming in the Gulf. He had to be rescued. Geeezzz.

I had one nut ask me if he could be reimbursed by FEMA for evacuating .

If Katrina had hit Galveston we would have been covered by 30 feet of water.

Evacuees in hotels, $500.00 per night, for weeks and weeks. Thousands of mobile homes, paid by taxpayers, not used.

You pulled my string.

Answer 9

agreed. especially because MS's damage was directly caused by Katrina, while New Orleans was only damaged as extensively as it was because someone was criminally negligent in designing or constructing the levee system.

Gulf coast was victimized by Katrina, New Orleans was victimized by other humans.

Answer 10

I'm thinking it's referred to in that manner because the bulk of people affected were from New Orleans.