[mosquewatch.com]

Dear Mr. and Mrs. News reporters, Let me take this opportunity to tell you to go to hell, for making N.O. the ONLY place in the south, devastated by Katrina. It is very clear to me now, white people suffering, does not make a great news story.

I am not a racist, and have no ill feelings to anyone of another color , my complaint is with the idiots in the media. I live in this armpit of America that use to be a wonderful and beautiful place to live (Gulfport), it seems the media doesn't give a rats arse about anywhere else except New Orleans.

Places like Bay St. Louis, Pass Christian, totally wiped off the earth, no mention, no care, no coverage.

Damn you media idiots, for your fixation on New Orleans, we all are knee deep in crap here. Every time we look out the window while making a pot of coffee, go to the store, get a hair cut, go to work (for those of us whose jobs were destroyed) we see the devastation. There are days people OUTSIDE OF NEW ORLEANS that people don't want to wake up, today is one.

Jeff Davis

[muawiyah]

There's a tendency ~ a rather strong one ~ for news media of all kinds to AVOID doing stories on places that are totally destroyed.

Part of it has to do with getting into them, and a bigger part has to do with staying there once you get in.

That's just the way it is.

In my lifetime I've seen Hurricane Hazel visit my homestate of Indiana and rain for 30+ days. Flooded everything. State looked like a lake. Not a culvert or small bridge left anywhere. There was a lot of devastation near creeks and streams that looked like raging rivers.

Yet, when last January 2005 came around, and there were massive rains on top of a 3 foot snowfall leftover from December, and the whole place looked like another Great Lake, with devastation near creeks and sreams on the order of what you would expect from a raging, flood swollen Mississippi River, the Main Stream Media, local media, and even amateur soothsayers and tale spinners didn't seem to recall or know about the devastation nearly half a century ago.

There was little written about it at the time in fact, because, lo and behold, there was so much disruption of normal life it just didn't get written.

Still, people knew.

BTW, the damage in 2005 was substantially less than that of the earlier floods ~ mostly because folks learned what to do to make sure the damage didn't happen. Part of it has to do with NOT BUILDING IN THE FLOOD PLAIN, and certainly NOT IN THE FLOOD PATH!

One would hope New Orleans folks, and other Gulf Coast folks as well, would learn.