I left New Orleans Saturday before Katrina arrived because our government leaders recommended it, page 1
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Topic started on 6-9-2005 @ 02:50 AM by outsider
Thank you - weather forcasters, satellite techs, media & government for warning me, so I could get out of the way in time.

It was all over the papers all over the media & so I left with the first wave of evacuation traffic. While traffic was bumper to bumper I got out more than 24 hours before Katrina arrived.

Am I lucky - Hell no - Paying attention and heeding the warnings of those who know better than I isn’t luck. It's following directions. Call it survival skills or whatever you like, but I call it common sense, that apparently isn't too common with some folks these days. Those who can't understand your culling time will come too.

Though I'm not a resident I was there for business & pleasure and it was difficult not to know what was coming. You could have walked out of the danger zone in just a few hours.

Yes, I feel bad for those who lost everything, and those truly unable to leave, but you know this wasn't like an earthquake or a tornado - WE had been told about Katrina coming many days before she arrived.

Those who didn't leave that were able have nobody to blame but themselves for their own ignorance.

In the past before satellite pictures & modern computerized forecasting there was no warning & people didn't have any choice - now they do.

While you can blame the government for allowing the levies to deteriorate to the point that they would not work with such a storm & thus destroying much of the city, you can't blame them for what is occurring to the people who refuse to listen.


reply posted on 6-9-2005 @ 03:56 AM by spacedoubt
This was a missed opportunity.
news.yahoo.com.../050901/480/flpc21109012015

Those buses could have been used for those who could not make it on their own. Hindsight is 20-20, I know. I wish someone would have thought of it in time..

I know that a few people thought to use this resource..
www.local6.com...
Including an 18 year old kid, who is a hero in my book..
He saved many lives..


reply posted on 6-9-2005 @ 04:17 AM by rancid1

know that a few people thought to use this resource..
www.local6.com...
Including an 18 year old kid, who is a hero in my book..
He saved many lives..

Exactly my point. The boy had a will to get the hell outta there and he did it. Yes, the guy is a hero!

Going out on a limb here and may get my pee pee smacked for it but here it goes....
From this mornings headlines. "
News source
www.breitbart.com...
www.breitbart.com...

There are lots of people still around," "Just because they say we have to evacuate -- because there's no food or water -- we know all that. But we don't want to be told we have to leave."

"I know the grounds. I know the low ground and the high ground. That's why I sit on the high ground," she said waving toward the Mississippi River.

"I'm an individualist, and that's it," she said. "Martial law cannot make me a prisoner."

Can you say stubborn? Can you say ignorant? If you want to live in toxic waste, misquito infested, soon to be desease ridden enviornment then more power to you.

More headlines:

“Experts caution that it is too soon to clearly predict the long-term impact of the devastation of New Orleans, a city of less than half a million people more than two-thirds of whom are black.”

"You've got 300,000, 400,000 people, many of them low income without a lot of means, who are not going to have the ability to wait out a year or two or three years for the region to rebuild," said Barack Obama, the only black member of the U.S. Senate.”



So, you have over 267,000 (using 400,000 as the population number) poor blacks who refused to leave who are now demanding food and water, gangs of teenage boys shooting people, raping women and wondering why the Government isn’t taking care of them.

Tell me that this is not going to enduce further racism?


reply posted on 6-9-2005 @ 08:51 AM by esdad71
www.drudgereport.com...

They were warned by the same newpaper that is now calling out the government and blaming Bush. Full responsibility falls on the shoulders of the mayor of New Orleans.


Before residents had ever heard the words "Hurricane Katrina," the New Orleans TIMES-PICAYUNE ran a story warning residents: If you stay behind during a big storm, you'll be on your own!


The mayor is a hypocrite for knowing there was nothing to do for the poor, not fighting harder to get more funding and telling them they were all on there won if they did not leave.



TIMES-PICAYUNE published a story on July 24, 2005 stating: City, state and federal emergency officials are preparing to give a historically blunt message: "In the event of a major hurricane, you're on your own."



PS- Kanye West hates white people.....
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