Why did the New Orleans storm damage get #l, yet Gulf Port, & Miss. coast #3 or 4? I went to Miss & it was BAD

Question

True, in New Orleans the houses still stand and must be demolished. On the Miss. coast there is NOTHING. Even the large steel structures were demolished. Also, Texas had some severe damage that after one year is still visible. Trees cutting houses into two pieces, buildings still not repaired. Bank of America in Beaumont is still NOT open, but operating out of a Drive In Facility. Cameron, La. was just about wiped out. Fortunately Mr. Bush & Mr. Clooney gave 2 million to rebuild their hospital. Perhaps some of the Sports Jocks who receive millions in salaries could donate to New Orleans. Of course salaries of Sports jocks could be another subject. Way out of line just like Movie Stars, etc.

Answer 1

Because it's contingent upon the amount of people affected by the storm, and the dollar amount it will cost to re-build structures in the area. To the eye, there may be more "damage" in one area versus another, but it depends on how much it will cost to replace what was lost.

Answer 2

Who comes to a decision what's blasphemy? The music makes use of Christian references almost casually, and that constitutes blasphemy for most. The lyrics are so densely full of references which have dissimilar meanings that McLean couldn't were doing some thing casual in it. The 'Father, Son and Holy Ghost' are the '3 adult males i appreciate maximum', which argues antagonistic to a personal (to McLean) counter-Christian studying yet does *enable* for the translation that it references society's move faraway from regularly occurring faith. a question right that is how a lot the music is specifically about the 60s counter-way of existence and how a lot of that is about adjustments in society as a rule. yet i imagine that's extra of a passing remark interior the music. My effect is that if McLean ought to probably imbed more beneficial than one meaning/reference in a note or line, he did. i imagine the *widely used* use of non secular imagery is the passing of the experience of fact and ease (the u . s . a . of apple pies) because the counter-way of existence technology lost the desire that they'd be able to carry about important and significant replace. for most childrens, music had replaced faith because the flexibility in which social values were said and transmitted, besides the indisputable fact that it hadn't succeeded in bringing about the replaced into hoping for utopia. The musicians (and perchance political figures (Kennedy, King and Kennedy) who were showing the helpful way ahead had died, offered out or damaged up - Dylan went electric powered, then stopped traveling after an twist of destiny, then refused to jot down protest songs; the Beatles ("All you want is Love") disbanded and the Stones ("Sympathy for the devil") grew to change into the most influential operating band, the helpful factors of the Civil Rights move were overshadowed with the help of race riots in distinct cities in the course of the summer season of 'sixty seven, at the same time as Haight-Asbury replaced into heaving with the "summer season of love". study verse 6 with that very last in options. Neither music nor faith had a answer for the continued social complications.

Answer 3

I think New Orleans has gotten most of the publicity because it's the highest concentration of population for such a specific area. Everywhere else it was more generalized into states or coasts. Plus, seeing an area damaged makes for more dramatic news footage than seeing an area completely gone.

But all of it was a terrible thing.

Answer 4

I think New Orleans got more attention primarily because it is a tourist spot, and it has the Mardi Gras. Of course, there are also some very effective activist groups in New Orleans, one of which I contributed to.....but I don't have the salary of a celebrity. I agree with you that those who are uber-rich should help out. And they would get tax breaks, so it benefits them, too.

Answer 5

As a journalist, I have to admit that many of us chose our stories on ease. New Orleans offered dynamic photos and easy stories from a city with a name everyone knows. Besides, there were large areas of the city and surrounding areas that still had electricity and/or phone service and all the amenities needed for a live feed or a laptop submission. It was easy to get to and outskirts offered motels, restaurants, and roads.

To get to places like Bay St. Louis (which pretty much no longer exists) and Boloxi takes time, hardship and offers no "quick" stories. It takes time to get stories out of a place in that kind of shape. Time is everything in journalism. Your competitor gets a graphic story first, and he's got your job next.

Besides, who wants to go slogging around in alligator infested marshes full of debris carrying 50 pounds of equipment when you can shoot from a vehicle and go home for a bath?

Answer 6

Why you ask? The answer is obvious. New Orleans didn't do for themselves. They blamed the government and cried for the government and others to bail them out. The others relied on their own merits to overcome. Failures are the selling points for the media, not successes. The biased, anti-administration media doesn't cover those who help themselves, only those who cry foul and have the entitlement mentality that they deserve the ever-open government handouts.

Answer 7

Listing storm damage is all politics because it involves federal relief dollars.

Answer 8

Simple answer, when told to leave they left, no news. In N.O., they didn't leave when told to, suffering equals news.