Katrina was NOT a "natural disaster"?

[Westy]

"In the end mother nature will show you who's the boss."

 Too true!


 I think many fell prey to the silly notion that if they "prayed" to a god they would be spared.

[Reschke]

From the wetlands side of things without the MS River depositing the silt from floods the wetlands have disappeared steadily since the last big flood back in 1927. This has also effected the barrier islands off the coast of Louisianna, Mississippi and Mobile Bay area of Alabama. Without those barrier islands the wetlands take a beating in huge storms and without both of those areas the inland areas of the coasts take more of a beating. There was a huge 3+ hour show on this past Sunday evening here talking about things that are in experimental stages for the release of flood waters from the MS River and how they hope that it can begin to restore the wetlands and the barrier islands. One thing they are looking into is the building of concrete structures off the coast to help begin to rebuild the barrier islands and by doing that give them a jumpstart that they would not get using only natural materials.

[BTW]

I kinda agree with the author. A lot of poor urban folks down here are content with the government taking care of them, telling them where to sleep, when to eat and when to go home.

I'm no fan of the police state. When we came home Monday, it felt we had to sneak in to the West Bank of New Orleans. Even though there was no major damage to our homes (I lost a few shingles and a magnolia tree), the was a white homeland security van driving around telling us we had to leave the city.
I was not about to leave again.

But that is the government mentality of building a city. It very convenient to have all us pesty citizens packed neatly away in shelters and hotel rooms. But you can't bring a city back by telling people to go away. You bring a city back by letting people go home, clean their yards, and get a sense of a future. Having people sitting in limbo for weeks or months will kill New Orleans - not Katrina.

Today I cut up up that magnolia tree and cut my grass. Five people on my block did the same. I doesn't even look like there was a hurricane. That's how you bring a city back - NOT by depending on FEMA.

There is no way to get through a major disaster without a lot of work and pain. It seems some folks think with FEMA in town, there will be no work or pain. Well they are in for a rude awakening.

[nirvana]

Wooo I said related the people in New Orleans to Iraqi insurgency as did this reporter...well he related New Orleans the Iraq but ALL THE SAME.

[RedTop]

It's God's fault or the Government.

Never take responsibility for your own actions when you can blame them or someone else.

It's the way it is now in this politically correct CRAPPY world we live in.

[BTW]

But right now the government is screwing up. Jefferson Parish is livable and yet they are in lock down. Aaron Broussard has a problem with relinquishing power, and its going to hurt Jefferson Parish. Let the people go home and clean up, for Christs sake. Get off the police state mode. First came the people, then the politicians. The politicians always forget this simple fact. They need to let the people fix what they are capable of fixing.

[DREDIOCK]

Originally posted by Westy
"In the end mother nature will show you who's the boss."

 Too true!


 

almost Carlinesk

"Ask those people frozen into position  in Pompei if they feel like they are a threat to the planet today"

Same could be said About N.O.

[Dago]

5- Flamebaiting, trolling, or posting to incite or annoy is not allowed.

[lazs2]

BTW... sounds like if all the government people went home you guys could get everything back to normal a lot faster.

lazs

[Edbert]

Originally posted by lazs2
BTW... sounds like if all the government people went home you guys could get everything back to normal a lot faster.
 

Of all the images from NO that remain burned into my mind it is the one of that throng of people (obese women, young children, and able-bodied men) chanting in the streets...."SEND US HELP, SEND US HELP, SEND US HELP".

[lazs2]

yep... I can't get the image of little flightless baby birds in the nest all flopping around on top of each other with their little beaks pointed skyward and cheeping pitifully.

lazs

[Torque]

saw one yesterday that made me larf. a rather obese women posing with her five young kids infront of her untouched shanty town shack. she was getting all upset on camera, she cried she couldn't do anything for the kids because the mail wasn't running and no govn't cheque.

[Dago]

Originally posted by Torque
saw one yesterday that made me larf. a rather obese women posing with her five young kids infront of her untouched shanty town shack. she was getting all upset on camera, she cried she couldn't do anything for the kids because the mail wasn't running and no govn't cheque.

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[Torque]

i don't think slavery could be used as an excuse for her, being she was white and her kids didn't look mulatto.

[dmf]

I bet Robert Tracinski ( the original orthur of the beggining of this thread) works at the weekly world news.
Its not a matter of a welfare state, or race, or creed, or culture, its a matter or the growing problem in this country, the rich and the poor, the rich can get away, while the poor are stuck where they are, the rich get the good life, while the poor do all the work.
The rich are cared for while the poor are not, If you don't make over $50,000 a year in this country, the govt just plain flat out doesn't care.