I've been all over the internet reading and looking at pictures from the diaster area. I've also been reading different message boards, and posts. I've also listened to the news, and different press conferences.
New Orleans is badly damaged, yes, true, due to flooding. Though New Orleans did not take the brunt of the storm. There are entire communities in Biloxi, and Gulfport MS that are gone. One of my good friends and coworkers Grandmother lives in Biloxi. All that remains of her house, is a concrete slab.
I understand the New Orleans is very bad off, but, come on, you move to a city that sits below sealevel. You have dykes, levies, and protective barriers holding back water that is suppose to be occupying the area where you are walking around at, eating dinner, and doing business, and living. For awhile there, I heard "we don't understand why it's flooding?" Well, there's a song, and I quote: "mom's going to fix it all soon, mom's coming around to put it back the way it ought to be." --Tool Aenema Well, it seems that mother nature wanted back what was hers to begin with? I remember going to my beachhouse a day after Hurricane Fran swept through North Carolina. My house is on the island of Carolina and Kure Beach, which historically is home to Fort Fisher, a civil war earthern base. Right near the base was a small little cove that had been filled in and built upon. Guess what, mother nature took back what was hers, and made it the way it was suppose to be.
Roiters, looters, rapist, murders, and people shooting at the helicopters. Pure fucking ignorance. Total fucking ignorance. The governor has given orders to "shoot to kill." Good, I hope they go through with it.
Being that I've been through Category 3 and 4 hurricanes, I know what they are like. Lack of Intellegence I blame my next line on the lack of intellegence, and lack of poor readiness for the state of Louisana. Your state is along the coastal line, and history has shown that you get hit by hurricanes. The people who stayed behind, sure they may not have had a way out of town, but hell, if I knew a catagory five hurricane was heading right at me, I'd find a way out of dodge, I'd walk, hitch hike, or whatever it took. Ride a bike, whatever it took, I'd get the fuck out of town. Now, also, New Orleans, and Louisana were all talking about what could possibly happen if this storm made land fall, with the eye hitting New Orleans, they knew the flooding would be this bad. Why, then why didn't the mayor ask for help getting people out. Yes, it's alot of people, but you knew after the storm hit Florida it would curve and hit the Gulf Coast, there was time to get people out. Get the means to transport them out, and declare an emergency and make it manditory everyone leave New Orleans. Turn the city into a ghost town. If people bitch about not wanting to leave, seize their property. Make it property of the city of New Orleans, or the state of Louisana and then either force them off, and into the evacuation vechiles, or arrest their dumbasses and put them on the vechiles. Poor preperations, they had what, two days to get the people out of town?
Now, ignorance people, pure ignorance for those that had the means to get out, but didn't. Read this:
URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA
1011 AM CDT SUN AUG 28 2005
DEVASTATING DAMAGE EXPECTED
HURRICANE KATRINA
A MOST POWERFUL HURRICANE WITH UNPRECEDENTED
STRENGTH...RIVALING THE INTENSITY OF HURRICANE CAMILLE OF 1969.
MOST OF THE AREA WILL BE UNINHABITABLE FOR WEEKS...PERHAPS LONGER. AT LEAST ONE HALF OF WELL CONSTRUCTED HOMES WILL HAVE ROOF AND WALL FAILURE. ALL GABLED ROOFS WILL FAIL...LEAVING THOSE HOMES SEVERELY DAMAGED OR DESTROYED.
THE MAJORITY OF INDUSTRIAL BUILDINGS WILL BECOME NON FUNCTIONAL.
PARTIAL TO COMPLETE WALL AND ROOF FAILURE IS EXPECTED. ALL WOOD
FRAMED LOW RISING APARTMENT BUILDINGS WILL BE DESTROYED. CONCRETE
BLOCK LOW RISE APARTMENTS WILL SUSTAIN MAJOR DAMAGE...INCLUDING SOME WALL AND ROOF FAILURE.
HIGH RISE OFFICE AND APARTMENT BUILDINGS WILL SWAY DANGEROUSLY...A
FEW TO THE POINT OF TOTAL COLLAPSE. ALL WINDOWS WILL BLOW OUT.
AIRBORNE DEBRIS WILL BE WIDESPREAD...AND MAY INCLUDE HEAVY ITEMS SUCH AS HOUSEHOLD APPLIANCES AND EVEN LIGHT VEHICLES. SPORT UTILITY
VEHICLES AND LIGHT TRUCKS WILL BE MOVED. THE BLOWN DEBRIS WILL CREATE ADDITIONAL DESTRUCTION. PERSONS...PETS...AND LIVESTOCK EXPOSED TO THE WINDS WILL FACE CERTAIN DEATH IF STRUCK.
POWER OUTAGES WILL LAST FOR WEEKS...AS MOST POWER POLES WILL BE DOWN AND TRANSFORMERS DESTROYED. WATER SHORTAGES WILL MAKE HUMAN SUFFERING INCREDIBLE BY MODERN STANDARDS.
THE VAST MAJORITY OF NATIVE TREES WILL BE SNAPPED OR UPROOTED. ONLY THE HEARTIEST WILL REMAIN STANDING...BUT BE TOTALLY DEFOLIATED. FEW CROPS WILL REMAIN. LIVESTOCK LEFT EXPOSED TO THE WINDS WILL BE
KILLED
Wow, to me, that sounds like total devistation. Don't act like you didn't know this shit was going to happen.
Now, the next thing that's grating on my nerves. Why isn't the government helping, where is the army, where are the troops. Well, last time I checked, we were fighting a war on terror in Afganastan, and helping try to establish a new government, and trying to keep some sort of peace (which is a joke) in Iraq. Hmmm, maybe our troops are IN THE MIDDLE FUCKING EAST, hundres of thousands of miles away! Ohhh, yeah, there's the national guard units, but, it takes time to moblize them. You have people who have actual careers who have to be contacted and told, we are activating you. You're going to New Orleans. They have to get the word out to them, and then they have to get them together to head down there. That takes a little bit of time.
Now, this whole, well the government doesn't care because it's black people.......ohhhh, I won't touch that, but that's the ignorance coming out in that statement.
My last comment, it's going to take to much money to rebuild New Orleans, my thought, don't rebuild it. Nature's going to do this again, and try to reclaim what is rightfully hers. It will be a waist of time, and man power. Yes, I know this means people will be displaced, homeless, and jobless. Though, that's part of the risk you take, living a place that's below sealevel, and right next to the ocean.
With that said, some of y'all are thinking it, I'm just sayin' it.
--Dave out!
