Posted on 09/01/2005 10:22:08 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Not true. The crisis itself is a combination of local mismanagement of levy and educational funds for the past several decades combined with Mother Nature and capped off by roughly a third of the able-bodied population that **chose** to remain in place when they had been ordered to evacuate.
Thus, contrary to your inane claim, answering your "one question" would not have averted this crisis.
...And where do you go and how do you get there? You walk **away** from the disaster area to any area of civilization that is connected to our infrastructure grid (e.g. food, water, sanitation, electricity, medicine, roads, phones, law/order, etc.).
Remaining in a lawless disaster area without food/water is as idiotic as "riding out a storm" when you've been given days of advance notice to evacuate. It's repeating your earlier mistake, writ large.
Likewise, shooting at the rescue helicopters and boats that are being sent to aid your evacuation is a pretty large mistake, too.
even if they had electricity--the water! "here watch me plug in my new------- ZAPP!!!"
All of them or just the lavender and maroon ones?
You use the tools god gave you. Your legs and feet. You do realize that we existed as a species for thousands of years before cars and money were invented. I survived near Los Angeles for a number of years without a car. Went through many pairs of shoes though.
I just saw this on another thread and thought it approriate for this thread as well.
Sad times of FR when people focus just on the negatives like looting and not the total loss of human life. No authority no law down there.
'When you dont have any money, a vehicle, or anywhere else to go. What are you supposed to do?'
Sad to know that im the only person that knows people that live like that.
9/11 did not destroy a whole region like Katrina did.
All the bridges are down. Where are they going to go. How are they going to "get away"?
They can have all the bottled water and Cheerios they like. But that is not what is happening. What is happening is, they are raiding the gun section at WalMart and shooting cops. Please remove your head from its present location.
There's a time and a place for these things and this isn't it. Whatever New Orleans's troubles and faults were, kicking the city when it's down is pretty low. This is a lot like Newt Gingrich blaming Susan Smith's murder of her children on liberalism. It's not the response of a flesh-and-blood human being who can see and hear and think, but of someone who's become an ideological machine, spitting out a party line on every occasion, and spinning every tragedy or catastrophe for partisan advantage.
You underestimate the economic and emotional impact of 9/11.
I was 5 blocks away from Ground Zero when the Towers fell on 9-11. Throughout downtown, people quickly abandoned their stores and shops and fled by foot. The police were overwhelmed with search and rescue operations. But New Yorkers didn't loot. Despite all the empty shops with windows smashed, New Yorkers didn't act like raving animals and steal everything in sight. Instead, there were dozens of people lining the street passing out free water, food, and necessities.
I still wouldn't loot luxury items. I'm just not like that. Perhaps, I was raised right.
9/11 had horrible emotional and economic impact. However, Katrina is going to hurt more.
Gas prices are already going through the rood and now there is less of an ability to refine crude oil. I talked to some friends in Charolette this morning and they told me that gas stations were running out of gas.
There were plenty of urban blacks working downtown in New York on 9-11. Despite all the abandoned stores, there was no looting or rioting. This is a New Orleans problem, plain and simple.
and would you rape and kill innocent people,sure they're just doing it to survive,They're nothing but animals let out of the cage.So why don't you go down and stand in the middle of these people for 5 minutes.I bet you wouldn't last one.
They live in an area that's 7 feet below sea level on a good day to begin with. A hurricane is coming. They did not get out of the way ... because ...
The NO police could predict better than anyone how dangerous the situation would get, anyway.
Well after 9/11 there were rescuers there almost immediately. There was leadership and most people wernt trapped in the city.
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