anniversary of HURRICANE KATRINA i want some people to vent their thoughts please?

Answer 1

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 2

I simply answer your Question with a question. Why didn't we see people from Florida or anyplace else along the Gulf coast that got Destroyed by Katrina "or any of the other Hurricanes of last year" Why didn't we see them all over the TV Complaining. Wait I'm pretty sure I know why. They were to BUSY rebuilding. They didn't have time to go on TV and BEG and ***** about not getting enough FAST enough Free enough. THE ENTIRE Gulf coast region was Devistated By Katrina and All you would think got hit was New Orleans. The MEDIA LOVED turning it into a RACIAL Issue. The FEDS got ALL the Blame While RAY NAGEN who DID Nothing but send Thousands directly into harms way got re-elected. All I can say Is New Orleans wanted him again they can have him. And We shouldn't spend Millions Upon Millions of dollars to re-build a City in a FISH BOWL. New Orleans will FLOOD again. Maybe not this year or next but it will. What Political party is gonna catch all teh BS next time?

Answer 3

I know that if someone told me to evacuate because there was a hurricane coming, I would leave. I don't believe that some people could not find a way out. I guarantte if it happens again, they will find a way to leave. It is also not fair that people on welfare, the ones I am paying for now, have free housing and still don't have to work. I don't like paying for their 10 children either. I don't understand that if you can't afford to have 10 children, why have any? A year is long enough to find a job and get on your feet. All the cities that were nice enough to take evacuees are now suffering because of them. Crime has gone up, disease has gone up, etc. I read that in a news magazine. Time to pick your life up, New Orleans. I feel much better now.

PS: I did not give the people on welfare 1 more cent for Katrina. I have already given you enough out of my paycheck.

Answer 4

They knew that the levies were damaged and that this would happen one day. They took their time getting to the people. I don't believe it was a race thing. They used the situation as an experiment. Just like the blackout in I believe 2003 or 2004. Almost half the nations electricity went out because someone broke 1 transformer, COME ON!!!!! They did it to see how people would react in a situation like that. In order to know the outcome of something, you have to do an experiment. And that is what the government does.

Answer 5

I am tired of NOLA. The crime rate in my city has gone up because of people we took in after Katrina.
I don't think the city should get a single penny as long as Nagan is mayor!
It ticks me off that people didn't have enough brains to leave and the CITY GOVERNMENT didn't help and then they have the nerve to blame others!
If people had left on their own, then resources could have been saved for hospitals, nursing homes and the like.

What was once the Pearl of the Gulf is now the Armpit of the Gulf.

Can't believe, I mean I just can't believe they RE-ELECTED NAGAN!!!

Answer 6

Everyone speaks of New Orleans, when it was Mississippi who took the brunt of Katrina. You don't complain about us, because you don't hear about us. The media has shown you one side of the story....the superdome, the 9th ward...

In Mississippi, we had NOTHING...MILES and MILES of nothing still there today. Lots of homes, businesses, etc...gone! We didn't cry and we didn't complain. We didn't leave our state and reek havoc in other's. We didn't take our FEMA money to go blow it on stupid things. I've seen what people use their FEMA money to do...buy building materials, hire contracters who raised the prices QUITE A BIT!!!! I saw my aunt empty her savings and drain her 401K just to get her home back. So when you vent about how terrible we victims are...you think about what you're saying. You come to south Mississippi and SEE WITH YOUR OWN EYES what people have lived in and through. You talk about being tired of it....don't you think we are too! Don't you think residents of MS are upset about how we are ALL being portrayed by the media. The military was here to keep things in check; they were in New Orleans for the war...

A year ago today, I was sleeping in a hotel room in Pensacola, FL, because we evacuated our home. Tomorrow at this time, I was convinced I was going to return to nothing...fortunately our home had damage but, not destroyed...my sister and a lot of my relatives did lose it all though. Imagine returning to see your home down the street, or not even to know where your house ends and the next begins....smell the bodies...

Answer 7

I grew up in Biloxi, and my mom still lives there. What I see is that people in MS are recovering, despite total devastation in towns like Waveland, Bay St Louis, Pass Christian, etc. I don't see that in NO. I see and hear whining.

Every single house on my mother's block got 7 feet of water. Then, when it left, it sucked half her stuff out of the house through the fron window. By the time I got down there, people were already cleaning up. That was three days after the storm.

Answer 8

we are making way too a good number of the hurricane anniversary. all of us bear in innovations the day Andrew got here by way of? How approximately Charlie, Jeanne, Ivan? i understand there have been greater, i merely won't have the capacity to bear in innovations all the names. i do no longer think of being a hurricane sufferer qualifies you for instant wealth. the government set a undesirable priority with the 9/11 sufferers. we are doing for clean Orleans merely as we did for south Florida, Mississippi, Alabama, and the Panhandle of Florida.

Answer 9

I can't help but think that if some of these posters were ever to have a truly incredible disaster like the levees breaking that they wouldn't be so mean spirited. It's only when you have seen this kind of devastation can you have a heart for the people of New Orleans.

People should stop being so judgmental and help the people who need help.

Answer 10

60% of u.s residents are still prepared to face disasters and the Us is still not ready to face another katrina... They put all the blame on Fema expecting miracles...

Super power my foot