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Lifer
Where is this liberal media you speak of?
The same media that is "celebrating" 5 years after 9/11?
oh but the governments hates them because of the color of their skin.
Just last night I was watching a Katrina specail on CBS or NBC and they kept showing pictures of women holding like 3 babies all less than 2 years old. Can't help but wonder why they have THREE babies when they can't even afford to provide transportation to get themselves out of town. Everyone keeps saying "I had no means or place to go to get out of town" but yet they can support three infant children.
Rental car $200 + gas $100 + hotel (two states away) $200 = $500 bucks to avoid being smack in the middle of a hurricane. This is why you keep emergency credit cards so you can charge 500 bucks to it to avoid danger for yourself and your 3 infant children.
HomerJS
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I guess you would feel beter if the news media got back to the important story why haven't they found Natalie Holloway. It's fine if people forgot the parents sent their naive 17 yr daughter to party and get drunk in the Carribean and don't take any personal responsibility.
By all means let the so called liberal media get back to what they do best, stories on missing white girls.
Chaotic42
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A lot of people squandered the aid, but a whole lot of that money went to help people get back on their feet and they did. New Orleans get all of the attention, but there were a lot of areas that were obliterated. Waveland, MS is gone. Biloxi, MS is an absolute mess (That's my hometown), but people there, for the most part, took the aid they got and did something with it.
They're darn thankful, too.
I just don't want to see another disaster happen and then see people not give because they saw what some bad apples did in New Orleans. The smart ones got out of the way. I lived in what was basically a suburb of New Orleans and we got out of the way. I don't want to hear about people not being able to get out. These flood predictions have been out for decades. We had lesson upon lesson in school about them.
Don't lump all of us in with the idiots who didn't get out of New Orleans.
I'm from the UK and I don't want to hear about it, but for some reason they devoted a large chunk of time to the 1 year on "celebrations".
I could care less about the "news" shows about the 1 year anniversary of Katrina. I figure if you don't want to watch, find the remote. It's probably slipped down the back of the sofa. 
What's killing me is the often repeated opinion from folks in that area, that I've heard 3 or 4 times now (from different folks they're interviewing, in different areas of NOLA), is that what they're still suffering from is nothing that can't be fixed if enough money is thrown at it! WTF? I'm sorry, but after a year's time of aid, I think we've thrown quite enough money at this problem, and I don't want to see good money thrown after bad, thank you! Geez, how many more billions are they expecting?? :disgust:
That, and the nutjobs that have their conspiracy theory that George W had the levies dynamited in order to flood out the poor sections of NOLA. Geez, what are they going to come up with next? :roll:
What's killing me is the often repeated opinion from folks in that area, that I've heard 3 or 4 times now (from different folks they're interviewing, in different areas of NOLA), is that what they're still suffering from is nothing that can't be fixed if enough money is thrown at it! WTF? I'm sorry, but after a year's time of aid, I think we've thrown quite enough money at this problem, and I don't want to see good money thrown after bad, thank you! Geez, how many more billions are they expecting?? :disgust:
That, and the nutjobs that have their conspiracy theory that George W had the levies dynamited in order to flood out the poor sections of NOLA. Geez, what are they going to come up with next? :roll:
lokiju
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And Andrew was a much more powerful storm!
They ALWAYS associate hurricane Katrina with N.O. when it was the damn levees that gave and caused the flooding!
It should be addressed as the N.O. levees breaking story not the hurricane Katrina story :|
I lived in South FL at the time, Katrina went right over us and caused it's damage, then two weeks later we had Wilma that kicked our asses and caused destruction from Miami to West Palm, yet no news source said shyte about it! It's still screwed up down there from Wilma and Homestead is still 10 years later not fully recovered from the damage that Andrew caused.
Chaotic42
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Well, it wasn't the wind from Katrina that did all of the damage, it was the storm surge. The water reached I-10 in parts of Hancock County, MS. I don't know if the damage was worse than Andrew, I wasn't in Florida when Andrew hit, but I can say that the Katrina damage was far worse than any of us thought it would be.
QFT
I was there for all the storms as well as i lived in S Fla for as 20 or so years. Don't get me wrong, i feel bad for the people without homes and what not but enough about the news coverage already. Hell my parents still don't have a functual roof from Wilma..are they on the news? Nope!
Yeah, that's what I'm sick of hearing - Katrina a year later, but only in NO. I actually wouldn't mind hearing about all the other places a year later. The scope of Katrina was enormous.
Scarpozzi
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- Jun 13, 2000
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Media sucks these days. They never have anything good on the news except for exploiting people who have lost loved ones in tragedies, fires, etc... Most of them have hush orders to speak out against the bad decisions our government makes and they let important stories take a back seat to ones that are "safer bets" on selling ratings.
It's sick, but the news is no longer a free flow of information....it's a business.
It's sick, but the news is no longer a free flow of information....it's a business.
I was just saying that to my wife last night. I don't care anymore... I mean... come on. A 20 second news blurb would have satisfied me the first time around, but we got an entire media circus over it. Now, we have to deal with it the second time around... wtf?
I mean, I'm sorry, but how is this girl newsworthy at all? How was she different from the other ~50 people that were murdered that day (in the US alone)? To me, this story (along with the whole Karr thing) warrants less than a minute of news time... if that.
I have taken to changing the channel now every time I hear anything to do with that story coming on... I'm just so friggin sick of it.
Queasy
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Yep. It wasn't Katrina that did NO in. It was bad levee designs and a corrupt local government that did nothing to fix the levees even though they had been leaking long before Katrina even hit. Katrina was just kind of the tipping point. The NO flooding was a man-made disaster.
The Mississippi Gulf Coast took the brunt of Katrina.
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is why you don't live in a city shaped like a giant BOWL.
And I'm glad they're following the Dutch Engineers' advice...there isn't a group of people in the world that've had more experience reclaiming land from water. And they've been doing it for 400 years with great success.
Chaotic42
Lifer
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It's a possibility.
I've had the news on in the background for the last couple of hours, and all they want to talk about is Ernesto. It's a freaking weak tropical storms. One reporter was talking about wind gusts of "12, 13, 14 miles per hour. Some places had 35 miles per hour".
Please. That's a summer shower down there.
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