hurricane katrina in mississippi?

Question

im from Ms. and when hurricane katrina hit every national news coverage is about new orleans every year now on the annerversry all it talks about is new orleans never ever do they talk Ms getting damage. plus new orleans damages were because of floods and the floods shouldnt have even been there but the levies failed but on our case in mississippi our storm surge was not because of levies failing it was because the ocean nothing to do with man made stuff but all over the news all they talk about is the levies failing in new orleans places hear got up to 30 40 feet in storm serge. and this past year bush came down to Ms and gave a speech about katrina and the next day he was in new orleans giving a speech about it. so on nbc that day they didnt say nothing about bush being in Ms but only about him being new orleans. and on our local news they were talkin bout this too. we get no attenion if the levies woiuldnt have failed then there damage wouldnt have been bad Y dont we get anyatenion

ms was natrual desaster new orleans man made deisaster

dont rag on missississippi its a great place to live it doesnt take 20 minutes just to drive a mile great hospitality great people have came from Ms.

Answer 1

hehe my name is katrina......sorry
anywayz
don't worry about what the attention is put towards, it doesn't matter, people would still care about u and where u live.

Answer 2

Woah, slow down.

New Orleans is a big city. Seriously, how many people aside from Mississippi's little branch off have ever heard of Bay St. Louis or Ocean Springs? Then you think New Orleans, and Mardi Gras, and all that jazz. (No pun intended.)

Also, do you remember what we did after the storm? We started picking up. A few nuts in New Orleans decided to shoot at the helicopters, a few wanted to just sit and complain. Do you remember the diabetic seizure lady off the news? That's good news. We pulled out our chainsaws and started sawing down that tree in the road. That's not nearly as exciting.

New Orleans had a lot more people affected, like it or not.

I'm just glad that Robin Roberts is from Pass Christian. If she wasn't from down here, how much coverage would we have received at all?

Answer 3

I think part of the Problem here, is that Man Made disasters ARE preventable- so N. Orleans gets more attention because something could have and SHOULD HAVE been done to prevent the flooding from happening... Sadly, had the levies in New Orleans NOT FAILED- Mississippi WOULD have gotten alot more attention than it has... It's NOT "fair"- but such is life...and the nature of disasters... :(

Answer 4

The reason that NEWO get all this attention is because the government build these levies and did not build them to code for example they were suppost to be 17 feet in the ground but where the breaches were they were only 5 and 6 feet. it is an example of poor government work, and here in la we here on the news alot about how the president gave more money to ms than here in NO and there was also more damager per square mile in la than in ms