Plus, the state government had a plan in place, thanks to Jeb Bush. Maybe, Florida has it together and Louisana does not.
2007-02-02 23:42:25 · 17 answers · asked by Damn Good Dawg 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
I know Jeb Bush is not the governor, but he developed the plan and put it in place. Florida. Dems are hot that a Republican has a great plan working this out.
2007-02-03 00:05:05 · update #1
I live here in Fl. and the area that has been devastated by the tornado's has young people as well as older people living there. Unlike N.O. the people here have a life,it's all about living,working,raising their children,paying taxes, Some go to church some don't,but we don't sit around and wait for someone else to pick up the pieces. If we get help that's great. We have a state government that cares and people who voted them in.
P.S. Jeb Bush was the one who set the emergency plans up, Charlie just took office in November.
2007-02-02 23:59:12 · answer #1 · answered by Classic96 4 · 3⤊ 3⤋
Floridians are used to dealing with disasters, and helping each oter through them, maybe more that New O. Besides the area of Florida that got hit was not so poverty stricken in the first place.
PS.... Jeb is not the governor anymore, Charlie Christ is.
2007-02-03 07:47:25 · answer #2 · answered by davelibby321 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Congrats to Gov Crist. (Dr Tom Cruise is living in the past I guess)
The state of LA has never been known to be on the cutting edge of anything - unfortunately for it's people.
However to compare last nights storms to Hurricane Katrina is disingenuous.
You only have to check the news a few years back when southern Florida was under strict curfew because of the chaos after a major hurricane strike. Looting,murder,rioting FL had it all. So it happens in Florida as well.
Congratulations on being another divisive American!
2007-02-03 08:30:39 · answer #3 · answered by carl l 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
There are so many things wrong with your thinking.
Bad as it was the scale if the damage was minuscule compared to NOLA, one could walk or drive to help, Since it is a retirement community, most had families nearby that were able to do just that, 5 miles away the damage was Zero.
But the biggest difference? The Reporting, spun bad for blacks and spun good for whites even describing the same activity in NOLA.
You don't even know who is Governor.
2007-02-03 08:11:39 · answer #4 · answered by Dragon 4 · 3⤊ 1⤋
First and foremost the scope of the two disasters are no comparison and neither were the class of people that the two storms affected. Now if a storm like Katrina would have hit say Miami, then it would be fair to compare.
2007-02-03 07:53:45 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Nor did those in Mississippi. I think it has something to do with the entitlement mentality of urban poor who are frankly not self reliant in a survivalist sense of the word. My maternal grandparents were quite poor, but in the sense that they retired by skrimping to buy 'unwanted' land then outside of town, and had corn and grapes and vegetables planted, built their own house by hand, and made their own clothes.
Compare that to urban poor.
I understand that the opportunities are different, but the facts are still the facts.
2007-02-03 09:49:02 · answer #6 · answered by DAR 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
In 2004 Florida got hit by
HURRICANE CHARLEY
Landfall: Aug. 13 at Cayo Costa, just north of Captiva Island
Category: 4
Winds at landfall: 145 mph
Highest wind speed: 145 mph
Florida deaths: 33
Estimated damages in Florida: $7.5 billion
HURRICANE FRANCES
Landfall: Sept. 5 at Hutchinson Island, about 12 miles south of Port St. Lucie
Category: 2
Winds at landfall: 105 mph
Highest wind speed: 145 mph
Florida deaths: 38
Estimated damages in Florida: $4.5 billion
HURRICANE IVAN
Landfall: Sept. 16 at Gulf Shores, Ala.
Category: 3
Winds at landfall: 130 mph
Highest wind speed: 165 mph
Florida deaths: 29 in Florida
Estimated damages in Florida: $4.1 billion
HURRICANE JEANNE
Landfall: Sept. 25 near Stuart
Category: 3
Winds at landfall: 120 mph
Highest wind speed: 120 mph
Florida deaths: 17
Estimated damages in Florida: $4 billion
Estimated damages in Florida: $20.1 billion
No part of the state was not subjected to at least Tropical Storm force winds from at least one of these storms.
AT no point did we see anything near the mess New Orleans had to deal with, (and this was BEFORE Katrina, back when FEMA was allegedly "broken") and though FEMA wasn't perfect, they handled hurricane after hurricane after hurricane (some towns actually got hit twice, or three times) and at no point did you see the sort of utter breakdown N.O. had either.
That is because FEMA was scapegoated to cover up the truly stunning levels of incompetence, (and the effects of long term corruption) in the local New Orleans and Louisiana State Governments. This is even more obvious when you look within Katrina, and see how Louisiana's response was different from Mississippi.
2007-02-03 07:55:22 · answer #7 · answered by Larry R 6 · 3⤊ 2⤋
The cherry on the ice-cream would be President Bush distributing supplies to everyone within couple of days of the disaster for photo op.
2007-02-03 07:47:52 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
There's a difference between a city getting a little windblown and getting completely destroyed; even after hurricane Andrew, there was more damage to the trees in Florida then the actual property.
Plus, looting would interfere with the early-bird special at Denny's in Florida.
2007-02-03 07:47:00 · answer #9 · answered by opw290 2 · 3⤊ 4⤋
During Katrina Mississippi was the same way. Seems to me that the states that have republican leadership did better. You don't hear all of the blaming and crying that comes out of the states that have democrat leadership or the lack thereof
2007-02-03 08:20:00 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋