People comparing these two disasters or implying that the folks in the mid-west are somehow superior to the folks in New Orleans cracks me up because it shows either a complete ignorance of the situations or a very poorly disguised prejudice.
The scale alone makes these two catastrophes completely different. In Iowa, there is an estimated 1.2 Billion dollars in damages. Katrina caused more than 100x that. The energy released along with the how quickly it was delivered made Hurricane Katrina comparable to the detonation of several nuclear weapons (plural). Tell you what... the next time someone tests a nuclear weapon, gather up a bunch of people from a small town and let them build a wall out of sand bags. We'll see how they do then eh?
But lets take this further... as so many here are want to do. 1300 People lost their lives in Katrina. More than 400,000 lost their jobs. God knows how many homes were destroyed. People were without food, and water, on top of that, they had no electricity for MONTHS... and lets not forget the record heat in the weeks that followed Katrina (90+ degrees for several weeks straight). Moreover, lets not forget that N.O. was eventually evacuated and that the people were not allowed back in to most of the city for MONTHS. (How do you suppose they could help the National Guard fix the levees then? Oh that's right... folks in the o'club figured that they're just lazy and want a hand out.

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What has the toll been in Iowa? No doubt the people there are suffering, and I don't want to sound like I'm minimizing that, but lets keep some freak'n perspective. Oh, and btw, these current flood victims are seeking "hand outs" too.
Get a clue
