since its been over a year since katrina do you still feel pain when u think about wat happened?

Answer 1

no. those people were warned in plenty of time to get out of there. It is not like a tornado when you only have minutes or an earthquake when you have no warning at all.

Answer 2

Not really. It's become part of everyday life here. There's not a day that goes by that the news doesn't have anything about someone helping a Katrina victim, or about a contractor ripping some people off.

It's not strange that I go to school where I do, which is in a bunch of trailers. When you've lived with it for a year and a half, you really kind of get used to it.

Answer 3

Yes, and I wasn't even in the country when it happened. It astounded me how ineffective our government was in helping it's own citizens. I live in China and for the first few days our only news source was the internet. We have cable, but it was out at the time. We really couldn't believe what we were seeing. We hoped the internet was exaggerating what was happening and then the cable was fixed. I cried watching CNN, BBC, and FOX news show me the same horrifying scenes over and over. I was in China when the tsunami hit and the US was one of the first Western countries to go into the hardest hit areas, yet we were ineffectual for days in the aftermath of Katrina. I still cannot comprehend how this could have happened. People here asked what was happening that the American government couldn't help it's own people. I was unable to explain it. The scene I remember most vividly was a woman standing on a bridge where people had been stranded for days waiting for help. She had what looked like a chow dog with her. Help was finally there, but she couldn't leave, even though she wanted nothing more than to get off that bridge, because the rescue crews wouldn't let her bring her dog, her family, with her. That had to be one of the cruelest things about the rescue efforts in New Orleans, making people leave behind their pets, which many Americans consider part of the family, when it had taken so long for them, the humans, to get help. It was like asking them to murder them because they knew the animal could be dead before anyone came back for it, if they came back for it.

Answer 4

The devestation of the entire Gulf Coast region is painful. "Those people" that the first answer spoke of are Americans. They are my family. Countless "those people" who did evacuate had no place to come home to when they returned. It is hard to see the things the American government does to help rebuild other devasted places in the world, while watching "those people" live in trailer homes. The damage is so overwhelming in the South that there isn't enough...well, ANYTHING...to address the real problems of housing for average Southerners.

I feel pain when I talk to my neice, displaced to distant and unwelcoming family three states away, who can't move back to New Orleans because she can't afford to.

I feel pain when the island I was raised on is 80% wiped out. When all that is left of one of the homes (of just ONE of the families I was raised with) is the wooden plaque with the house number and last name (which was sent to them by some nice people in Texas who found it in their yard!).

I feel pain when I think about what cannot be rebuilt, like an entire culture. An entire city.

I think my real pain is felt, though, when I am confronted with the apathy of other Americans.

Answer 5

Nope, not at all. Katrina was a terrible tragedy, compounded by a corrupt and ineffective State and local government that should have been brought up on charges.
There were lots of folks that could have left, and should have left, but didnt. The people that couldnt leave could have been taken out by their own mayor. There was ample warning.
Nagin didnt and hundreds died.

Answer 6

And get ready as more of this will happen and maybe even here in america.

Answer 7

yes it still hurts.