sick of hurricane katrina?

Question

is this bad to think....? personally i am really sick of the whinning i hear about hurricane katrina, how did the gov't fail them?? ok yes the mayor should have told them to evacuate, but anybody with a half a brain with a tv knew there was a hurricane comming, so why not just leave.... also the 1900 hurricane of galveston killed 12,000 people, made katrina look like a childs toy, and the people of glaveston burried their dead and rebuilt the entire city on their own, and didnt wait and complain for the gov't to help, is anyone else sick of this...??

Answer 1

I thought I was the only one who felt this way. Thanks for saying something : ) I think if I were in this situation I would of gotten the hell out of there. If I didn't have a car there is public transportation, friends, family, credit cards to charge bus fare something don't just sit there while a hurricane comes and destroys everything then complain that the government didn't do anything. Come on that's what I'm sick about. It's not the governments job to wipe our ***.....

Answer 2

Yes, people had the chance to evacuate. What you don'
t understand is this: when about 300,000 New Orleanians are on a 3 lane highway 6 hours before a major storm, and then you throw in about 10,000 Mississippians too...

Would you rather be in a Trailblazer or a brick home when it happens?

The people down here are severely impovershed, many were before the storm, too. They lived in trailers before the storm that were blown in the nearest 4 way intersection (I kid you not.) They knew it was going to be bad, but the evacuation order was sent out too late. Yes, we didn't technically eserve to be helped, but when you consider the crime and the strikes outside of the White House sometime anyway would have gotten help to us earlier.

The people of 1900 did not expect government help. The people of the 2000's have seen the government give a third world country that has had a disaster food, water, and medical help in less than 3 hours, and think that surely the government could get to three states in it's own country faster, right? Wrong.

The biggest problem I have found was not the government- free shelter, free food, free clothes, what more could you want?- but actually the civilians. There are wanton contractors running about, charging people thousands of dollars and never doing a bit of work. I blame it not on the government, but the physically able people leaving all of the resturaunt, construction, and government appointed jobs behind for welfare each month.

Answer 3

Too many people feel this way. Why should we forget something because it is horrible. I think if anything people should pay more attention. The fact that in our modern society we had such a tragic event is somewhat beyond comprehension. Most of the people caught by Katrina couldn't leave the city because they had no way to do so. People waited for three-four days on a freeway to be rescued. Go stand on a freeway overpass for that many days in the middle of the hot summer with little to eat and almost no water and see if you can forget how horrible that can be. The hurricane in Galveston killed so many because there was no hurricane warning system, or national weather service. If people forget Katrina we might as well stop thinking about the Civil War (that was so last century) and the holocaust.

Put your ipods and Nintendo Revolution down just long enough to realize that pain exists and there are people around the world who know nothing but pain.

I just gave thumbs down to all the knotheads who think they've heard enough about Katrina. Will you also b*tch when 9/11 rolls around...I hope we never foget the horrible day.

Answer 4

Are you serious!!!Personally, I feel that the correct protocol was not taken. Many residents of New Orleans did not have power up to 10 hours before the storm so how could one possibly evacuate. Also, it was not the hurricane that caused all the disaster it was the lack of responsibility of the engineer who waited 40 + years to adhere to the codes and upkeep of the levees. When the levees broke that's when all hell broke loose. That's why people blame the govt. Do you believe if the Statue of liberty needed upkeep or maintenance it will be ignored for 30 + years or even the White House. i don't think so? Ignoring the levees was just the political agenda of the big time builders to rebuild New Orleans as a Casino district. they were just awaiting something to destroy and clear as many poor and minorities as they could without paying them off to move. Gentrification, look it up!!

Imagine your 16 year old cousin picked up for a possible suspect for vandalism on Aug. 28, 2005 just because he fit the description of a young black male with a red t-shirt and blue jeans. He sat in a holding cell for 48 hours. Due to all the drama with Katrina he was not given the phone call nor did he get evacuated. As the water grew him and other whom were stopped or detained by the police just set in a cell while the water was rising. They all drowned many were not even convicted nor did they committ crimes (runaways, profiled suspects) See the media left out so many things and you have the audacity to say its whining many people died slow and painfully, watching there lives pass by why the water rose. Our gov't who say the work for all people have their political agendas and the caliber of people whom made up New Orleans did not make their agenda!! And Katrina was an aid in whipping out what they see as the bottom percentage!!

Answer 5

I feel really bad for the people, and I did as much as I could by donations (money, clothing, other necessities) after Katrina hit. I know there are still people trying to piece their lives back together, and I want to help them in any way possible - those who are also willing to help themselves that is.

But... I am SICK of hearing the blame throwed around about how the government should have done this or shouldn't have done that. It's absurd, like the conspiracy theory about the government supposedly blowing up the levies on purpose! Come on! It was a terrible natural disaster. It should be about people helping people rebuild. Instead, it's become a battleground for the liberals to attack conservatives and even to make up ridiculous stories to try to discredit the federal government.

Answer 6

It is very bad to think, as with the other idiots who have agreed with you. You might hear whining coming from New Orleans, but guess what....in Mississippi "we buried our dead" and we've started rebuilding our entire gulf coast. We didn't complain and tell the govt to help us. The wonderful people of this country, I'd say you aren't one of them, came to our aid to help us stand up again.

People lost everything...and you're tired of hearing about it. Well I must say that I have news for you, get over it...you're the one whining. Yeah I was sick of Hurricane Katrina the day after it wiped out my hometown, including losing my job and school. It really makes you think about how much more imporant things are...gas station, restaurants, banks, people's homes, etc... Yet, here you are talking about New Orleans and comparing all the Katrina victims with them. I believe you have been watching too much of the news and how they cover the people of New Orleans...

Mississippi is in no way, shape, or form like that. Blanco, Nagin, and Bush are still trying to figure out who to blame for the storm, where as Mississippi is steadily rebuilding. So before you start shooting your mouth off...learn! Come to south Mississippi and see the MILES and MILES of NOTHING!

Answer 7

New Orleans and the Gulf Coast are use to living under conditions of impending hurricanes and I've been through several of them. You haven't heard of those, I suppose and there is no comparing this with a hurricane that came in 1900. We were fortunate that this storm came during the day, or the death toll would be alot more. This was the largest storm in the history of weather reporting.

A year ago, tomorrow morning at 9:00 AM my husband and I were floating on an icechest with our hands tied together in Waveland, MS as the eye of Katrina passed. A tornado lifted our home with us in it and tossed it into the driveway; then the salt water came in. We bailed out of the window and held on for dear life for 6 hours. We lost everything we had and I'm talking about everything. Lets' put it like this: If you're living in an area that does not flood and isn't considered a "flood area", if you know that you get in your car and you have no place to go and there will be no gasoline, what do you do when it takes 8 hours to move 4 miles in a car full of people? Like you always did, you stay home and batten down the hatches. Waveland, MS looks similar to Heroshima after the atom bomb dropped. If you've never see people dead in trees, or cars piles up 20'ft.,or if you're police and firemen had to be rescued, I guess you would be tired of this. If you've never seen the damage 5, 35ft. tital waves can do, you'd be in for the shock of your life. Not only does the water come in, but it brings the debri with it destroying everything and everyone in it's path.

If you had to walk to a bread line and stand there for hours on end to get drinkable water and food of anykind while the National Guard watched with guns drawn, you might be inclined to remember that occasion. How do you get that case of water back to your shelter, whatever it might be anyway? It was 100 degrees outside. There's no gasoline for cars; the cars dont' work. This was a pitiful situation and had it happened anywhere but in the south, people and government would have been on top of it like white on rice.

The levees crumbled in New orleans because of lack of planning and irresponsible leadership that did not spend their tax money on fortifying the levee; Katrina rose the water, but the politicians sabatoged the levees. Let's go to your town a year later and look at a city of 300,000 people. There are lights, people living in their houses, everything is alive! In N.O., whole neighborhoods are dead. The cars that were flooded are there, the town hasn't one light at night; it's like walking through a graveyard.

People on the MS gulf coast are still living in tents and trailers; some without utilities...one year later!!! You don't hear anyone from the Gulf Coast whining...they have taken a beating and they are trying to make a home there again. The FEMA officials have made it all but impossible for people to try to get back into their homes. "F.E.M.A. = Federal Emergency My ***" ! People waiting around for FEMA to help them has a very long wait.

So, if you're "sick" and tired of listening about Katrina, please turn off the channel and pray that God will never "bless you" with this sort of trial. I guarantee this tragedy was survived by folks that will live the rest of their lives with Post Traumatic Stress. They had to start over from scratch. Anyone with "half-a brain" would understand the trauma and complete devistation without judging the poor folks that had to endure. We're blessed to be alive. Now, after tomorrow, you can watch the tragedy of 9/11 and feel better about yourself. God Bless the cold hearted and God Bless all of those volunteers that tried to help us in our time of need.

Answer 8

My best friend, Quoi's house was destroyed by hurricain katrina. He came to my arts school on the west coast soon afterwards. He didn't like to talk about what happened, but I haave never seen him whine. We raised money for his family, yes. I have never met a more hopefull, free spiirited or LIVING person. He has not let hurricaine katrina tie him down.... He is alsothe best artistr I have met. Many of my other friendss from that area have used the hurricain as insparation for their art.

Maybe you should try talking to a teen or young adult from that mess. Listen to what they did to help. Know a little more about the people, and forget the news. They don't know what they are talking about anyways.

Answer 9

You're sick of the whinning? I'm assuming you have a roof over your head, plumbing, clean water, a job (after school maybe?) and are under the delusion that your government will come to your aid in such a tragedy. One must also assume that you have access to a car so that if such a tragedy were to occur and you had enough warning you could just drive away. Many people had no cars or had other reasons for not evacuating, such as couple I met whose child was in intensive care in Gulfport or the husband whose wife had Alzheimer's and he was afraid she would get lost. There were no offers of transportation, people were left on their own, even those with a "whole brain". .After Katrina, I lost what little confidence I had in our government as well as the delusion that "race is not an issue".

I am lucky in the sense that I was not a victim of Katrina, but one of the first responders down in Gulfport, MS. sent down with one of the "aid agencies". I sat in Montgomery, Alabama for two days waiting for the Red Cross to figure out a way to transport relief workers while people had no water, food, power or clothing. I saw police unload goods from an "aid" trailer directly into their cars. I had a police officer tell me, he wished the "******* had all just washed away". These same police officers would not help us when we knew there were drugs and weapons in our shelter. The RC "headquarters" had moved two days before and hadn't bothered to notify us. There was no help for these people anywhere and they are still living in conditions comparable to third world countries.

Your media wants you to believe that the agencies involved did the best they could. I was with an agency and I will tell you they didn't and they aren't doing it now. The clients in my shelter were eating MRE's while the base 1 mile away was serving hot meals to hundreds of volunteers three times a day. I went back in November with volunteer firefighters from NYC and 8 Ryder trucks full of goods. The Ryder trucks were emptied in Biloxi and the goods distributed in a matter of minutes.. In other words, not even the smallest drop in the bucket. In November, that POD (point of distribution) was the only one still open in the area and the mayor was refusing to give them a forklift because he wanted it closed down so it could be bulldozed! At that point, people were sleeping in tents on golf courses because "there was no longer a need for shelters", no rental housing available, no used cars available, and they still had no fresh water. I visited one woman that was in my shelter and she was paying $500 per month for a trailer that had previously been condemned. I could go on and on about the corruption, racism, and total incompetence that I saw there. The only people who really did help were faith based, and/or individuals who just loaded trailers, ambulances, pick-up trucks and drove down there.

You have no idea what it was like and still is for the people on the Gulf Coast. Yes, there was some crime. Some opportunistic, some completely justifiable. Would you steal to feed your children if there was no food available? Nine out of ten people I met in that shelter were brave, kind, thoughtful and terrified every second of their day because their lives had been washed away. They took care of their children, they tried to laugh and they helped each other even though they had nothing left to give. They looked for jobs, houses, and tried to wade their way through all the bull*&^% paperwork that was required to get some help.

Your media wants you to believe that New Orleans is the story. The "story" crosses hundreds of miles and thousands upon thousands of people. Let me tell you there are pictures and people that I will never forget and GOD forgive me if I do.

One reason that your fellow Americans are still in this situation is because people like you would rather not face the truth about the suffering because it's ugly and they might have to get off their butts and do something. If your sick of the whining, stop watching television and get your community involved in a helping effort so there's nothing left to whine about.

Answer 10

How ignorant can you be?


"how did the gov't fail them?? "

Lets see, Bush ignored global warming, cut funding for the rebuilding of the levies that protected the city, and appointed an unqualified boob to head FEMA. Even as people were dieing in the streets of New Orleans, Bush tried to snow the American people with his famous "Youre doin' a heck of a job, Brownie". When that didnt work, he fired Brown about 2 days later.

"so why not just leave"

Do you not know that not everyone has a car? Sick people in nursing homes, people in hospitals.. they cant just get up and leave either.

"and didnt wait and complain for the gov't to help"

How do you know that?