I'm feeling kinda blue kinda thinking about how it was around here 1 year ago today. Just remembering all the anxieties and strife.
It's not over yet.
2006-08-29 05:58:57 · 42 answers · asked by ghoppers64 2 in Travel ➔ United States ➔ New Orleans
Frustrated and disgusted! I live on the westbank of the Mississippi River across from New Orleans. The Mayor of New Orleanbs is a racist and whiner. He scrapped his plan for rebuilding New Orleans because the residents in the 9th Ward wanted their community rebuilt which defies logic and of course he did this to obtain their votes along with his "chocolate theory" for the city.
Anybody who has been in the 9th Ward can see that it needs to be bulldozed and filled in with dirt then reinhabited as the population dictates. But the former residents want their neigborhood rebuilt and also want the government to pay for it.. Isn't that nice.
Well, here we are 1 year later and there is no plan for rebuilding New Orleans and there is no timetable as to when a plan would be available. However, the mayor blasts the government for not providing funding. Imagine a city with the reputation that New Orleans has as to corruption and yes, even though we have no plan of action just send us money. Right!!!
This thing is turning into a joke while Mississippi is well on its way to recovery.
2006-08-29 06:12:51 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I am disgusted with the fact that they have not made a group of people to sit down and go over everything that needs to be done,make a list and then ask for funding from the government.There is not set plan that I have heard of and its been a year.I would be pissed at my local politicians for this.Another thing that pisses me off is that people don't understand that at the time of Katrina,the local politicians were the ones to ask and receive help from the government.Our government is set up so that "it" as an entity can not get involved until the local politicians ask for it.State and Government are not the same.Its a local mishandling.
2006-08-29 06:04:39 · answer #2 · answered by kelliekareen 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I feel sorry for all the people who haven't even found a home. I can't believe it's already been a year. It seems like it happened yesterday. I wish I could win the lottery and I would help some people find homes. I think all the rich people in the world should donate their money to fixing up the Gulf Coast every where. Does Bill Gates really need all of his billions of dollars. He could spare a few to build some little homes.
2006-08-29 06:02:32 · answer #3 · answered by Precious 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I live in a city that was flooded 12 years ago and there is still work that needs to be done here. The distruction was far less than Katrina.
Be assured that no one re-routed the waters to only distroy the poor and Black sections of the city.
2006-08-29 06:08:12 · answer #4 · answered by Loyless H 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Angry that the situation was botched so badly. People are dead because of incompetence in the response. Wal Mart actually got the there before FEMA - the government should model their future responses after what they did. The only good thing to come out of Katrina was an awareness of just how unprepared we are for major national disasters.
2006-08-29 06:02:49 · answer #5 · answered by Paul H 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I feel very sad when I think about what all those poor people went through in New Orleans and how that wonderful city was destroyed by the hurricane. I am glad, however, that so many came to their aid and that many have been able to pick up their lives where they left off with hope and a better future.
2006-08-29 06:02:28 · answer #6 · answered by Nicky Rae 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
there is a lot to do and more to do after that. the reminder of what has happen to people and here homes and family will never beforgotten. i say a pray for all of you out there still dealing with the lost of what matters the most whather it was a person , a place, a pet or a happy home. i have home and faith in that one day new orleans and the many wonderfull people that live and lost there i hope one day it will feel like home again.
2006-08-29 07:02:37 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm very sad that so much time, money & energy is being put to rebuild a city that never should have had that location in the 1st place. The guy who founded it had engineers w/ him who advised against that location.... he ignored them! So, now we see the result.
It's just a bad spot for a city, it'll get blown away again & we'll pay to rebuild... again. It shoudl be moved a few miles north, to stable ground.
W/ Global Warming, sea level is projected to rise 5-15 feet. There are parts of N.O. that have sank 10 ft & are still sinking. That puts those areas up to 25 ft below sea level, I guess even the ocean is prejudice against Jessie Jackson!
It just doesn't make sense to rebuild a city in a place that was bad to begin w/!!!!!
2006-08-29 06:06:24 · answer #8 · answered by Fulltime in my RV (I wish) 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
My heart still goes out to those affected by Hurricane Katrina. I realize that their struggles still continue. I wish that they would be able to rebuild their homes and establish their lives in the town that they call home. I can't imagine what they have experienced and are still experiencing. I am going to say a prayer for them again today.
2006-08-29 06:01:57 · answer #9 · answered by intentionalmasterpiece 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it was a natural act; a really bad storm. It happened and it's time to move on. help those who still need help and get over it.
the problem is that a large number of those displaced from the storm are still unemployed. Why? Why cant they find a job and stop living off the handouts of the government and the working american taxpayer?
2006-08-29 06:03:24 · answer #10 · answered by Shamus 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋