I’m from Virginia and frankly, I’m sick of hearing about Louisiana and Katrina too. I’ve been sick of hearing about it for years now. And I’ve had it with all the people on Freerepublic who dismissed Irene. The families with dead loved ones and the people who dealing with the floods aren’t soft or weak or they may or may not have voted for Obama. This whole forum has gotten really nasty lately.
I suggest you revisit those threads.
This is a meet and greet compared to those threads. They were very nasty with many of the same freepers now squalling about their floods today celebrating the purging of New Orleans
and hooting it up with Lootie and pretending Bush's FEMA guy was just perfect
and so forth
Katrina is the 4th largest loss of life hurricane in US history total history and has left by my estimation 100s of square miles of near permanent destruction...maybe more.
Much of north east New Orleans and of course the lower 9th ward will never be rebuilt...and maybe it shouldn't. St Bernard's parish had near total destruction of structures..a county totally wiped out. The Mississippi Gulf Coast is still 6 years later a dirt strip...where many of the live oaks did survive thankfully...but it's a wasteland path 150-400 yards wife for 25 miles along Hwy 90 beach...that was once lush and beautiful and had finally gotten back to normal after Camille in 1969. Katrina ..a weaker storm..lingered and just wiped it out. Maybe 10-15% rebuilt in 6 years...very little survived...towns like Mississippi City and Long Beach virtually destroyed...Waveland beach...Pass Christian...huge destruction
1836 dead...
How many folks here who post have ever even seen it?...a few
This storm got so much hype to start with due to where government and news folks live...the Carolinas where it came ashore got short shrift and they all focused on the Big Apple.
And now it appears, that Vermont has gotten the brunt of it. I don't think it's appropriate to celebrate libs in VT getting flooded anymore than it was to celebrate purging New Orleans and that New Orleans should be left to whither and all that.
and one last note...if you know New Orleans and the coast like I do, you will learn that some things that went on there in the aftermath of the storm no one speaks of...in hushed tones...depravity..panic and reactions to that which those who survived prefer to forget..New Orleans has 100s of those stories locked away...never be unprepared after an event like that in an urban environment..a hard lesson