Whats the Difference between Hurricane Katrina and the Snowstorm that shut down Denver ?

Question

IS FEMA in Denver ? Are the Citizens of Denver Rioting ? Are the citizens of Denver rioting over their $2,000. debit cards ? Is the Mayor of Denver and the Governer of Colorado pointing blame anyone ? Should they move the residents of Denver to another city and spread its citiznes through out the country ?

So why did the "good" residents of New Orleans bascially go nuts and blame everyone else, while the residents of Denver are just dealing with it

Yeah your right, being below sea level and in the Gulf means that they weren't ready for a hurricane !

Answer 1

well for one Katrina DESTROYED thousands of homes. did that happen in Denver???


sad thing is you have a good point, but failed to present a good argument for it.

Answer 2

I think that katrina was much worse..the Water damage was the thing that really ruined New Orleans. Water is the worst damage ,worse than anything else.
I live in Denver,and yes everything was shut down,and it is still hovering around 0 degrees,but the snowstorm here was nothing like the catastrophe that happened in New Oreans where people lost their homes from floods,and were displaced out into the streets.
There were pockets of residents in Denver that have been displaced temporarily ,but after the snow melts,their homes will be still there,not like in New Orleans.
You really cannot compare the storm in Denver,to the Hurricane in New Orleans.
Don't forget,New Orleans is below sea level,and once the damns broke the ocean just flowed into the city destroying what was once their homes and streets and everything that they knew.
Denver is really not used to snowstorms like this,most of the snowstorms that occur ,happen in the mountains,higher than the city. We are at 5,280 ft,the mountain ranges where the snow really flies start at about 9,000 ft and go up to 14,100 ft,Pike's Peak.
Denver rarely gets hit,but this city has learned a lot from this storm,and not to take weather forcast lightly,like when it hit a few days before Christmas ,on the Wednesday before disrupting airline passenger traffice throughout the whole country during the Holiday rush.
We have been hit with 3 more storms since the 1st one,every weekend it seems,not we are in a deep freeze.We are supposed to be warming up in a few days above zero,like in the 20's maybe ,but that is still below the freezing mark.
The rest of the country is just starting to get hit with colder weather in the past few days,and it seems funny to hear about the other cities complaining because we have been dealing with it for a whole month already.
Texas ,through Maine..the cold ice storm is now hitting everyone,the weather affects everyone not just certain groups of people.

Answer 3

Katrina was a much larger-scale disaster. People were not only displaced in New Orleans but in other near-by towns and cities. People's entire homes were swept away. Businesses, homes, cars; people's entire lives were destroyed. Yes, the snowstorm that shut down Denver is a problem but it is not as large-scale. People's homes are not being swept away but rushing waters and winds up to 175 mph. Do you know how fast that is? That's fast enough to tear down your house and rip trees out of the ground! It destroyed 90,000 sqaure miles of land! The highest EVER recorded storm surges occured, reaching 30 feet. Have you ever seen a 30 foot wave? There are waves that big crashing against ice shelves in Antarctica! Yes, I understand that people's lives could have been saved if an evacuation was called earlier but the damamge would have been just as severe to all the buildings. Why don't you go down to New Orleans and see the damage that;s been done? Why don't you go and talk to the people who have lost EVERY LAST THING that they owned? Then talk to me about how the "good" residents of New Orleans bascially go nuts and blame everyone else, while the residents of Denver are just dealing with it!

Answer 4

An evacuation is far more disruptive to a person's life than a snowstorm. New Orleanians have had to evacuate numerous times in the past decade alone under the threat of a hurricane. Yet, New Orleans had not had a riot since they overthrew their carpet bag dictators in the 1870's. A million people are in the streets annually for Mardi Gras, yet I've never seen the NOPD have to break out riot gear. LSU won a national championship in the Superdome, no riot. Denver Broncos won a Superbowl and....

http://www.rockypreps.com/salutethat/riot4.html

Apology accepted.

Answer 5

Is FEMA needed in Denver, are there thousands of people homeless, dead or missing, going without food and water no place to relieve their body functions?

If my neighborhood was setting under water, love ones missing I would need and expect help.
It's a shame to our government when they can build another country back up after tearing it down but cannot respond to the people of this country. Has your Denver citizens reached out like the people of New Orleans did to get help?
How much did you give to the relief fund for hurricane Katrina?

Did you ask this question after the fires raged, the floods rushed in, the tornadoes roared through other states in our beautiful country?
Sounds to me like you lost something in the storm in Denver and can't get any help? Well, if you are waiting on our government good luck but don't blame NO for trying to get all the help they could.
I do agree there were those who expected something for nothing sorry but that's everywhere not just NO.
Upset in Florida..........

Answer 6

For all of you that think that NO has never been hit by a hurricane before you are mistaken. The 9th ward has been flooded 3 times before the last in the 1920's. Hurricanes hit the gulf coast several times a year, and they were given fair warning about the threat. As early as 1994 (under Clinton) the city was told that if there was a direct hit that the levies would fall, and the state of LA did nothing about it.

This is going to sound racist but I think it is true. The media has not covered Denver because there has not been 1,000s of minorities displaced. There has not been 100s of minorities killed. The media does not care about all the people in Colorado and other Northwestern States that have died, nor the 100s of 1000s of cattle that have died which will raise the price of beef around the world.

To put it short not enough minorities were affected by the storm.

Answer 7

There is no total destruction of homes and businesses. When the snow melts there will still be infrastructure, New Orleans was swept away by a miscalculation on the part of the Army Corps of Engineers they built levees that weren't up to what was needed,they underbuilt them. New Orleans didn't drown due to the hurricane, it was flooded when the levees broke. In New Orleans, there was not just no water, there was no plant left to clean sewerage. The roads were not just deep in snow and hard to pass, they were gone. No houses to live in, and if you did have a house, there was no business to go make a living in. I did btw hear that fema was in Denver, passing out generators to shelters. Insurance companies have delayed payments to those who had policies, even Trent Lott had to sue his company.
Of course you didn't want a real reason, you just wanted to say that the Blacks, (like there weren't whites there too) were "bad" and dependent on the government.

Answer 8

specific I agree that those words could be complicated. first of all Hurricanes, Typhoons and Cyclones are all of the comparable. all of them are available in from the sea and are powered by using the warmth waters, it is why why we don't get them interior the united kingdom. Hurricanes are what English human beings call them. Typhoons are jap and Cyclones are the different Asians. Tornadoes are thoroughly distinctive they arrive whilst warm air and funky air meet and puncture a layer above and then a twister starts to look and come out of the clouds and hits the Earth Please don't get blended up between those 2 they are like opposites to a minimum of one yet another.

Answer 9

Kat was a major natural disaster. Denver is a minor inconvenience at worst.
Kat destroyed not only houses, lives, and businesses but civic structure like hospitals, emergency services, law enforcement, transportation, water & sewer, electricity and other utilities, local government and it's 'services', etc. What really put the nail in the coffin was when the levees broke. Levees not built to withstand the worst. They couldn't get help because help couldn't get to them. And too many laid around drinking and partying to help themselves (waiting for the hand of God to save them, I guess). He had better things to handle than some people dumb enough to live below sea level right next to the sea!

Answer 10

Someone should pull a Kanye West and say Bush hates Denver. And as for blaming the government for Katrina, nowhere in the constitution does it say it is responsible for natural disasters. Action is supposed to be initiated with the local authorities who utterly failed the chain of disaster command.

Answer 11

There is no comparison between what happened on the Gulf coast and Denver. Snow is natural. It will melt and go away and people will still have their homes. They don't even have to leave them. On the Gulf coast, the destruction was similar to Hiroshima after the atomic bomb. Homes were totally wiped out. Those who stayed, lost everything. If you came here today and saw the coast, you wouldn't ask such a question. Almost 18 months have passed and crews are still removing rubble. We would take a snow blizzard and day.