I lost everything in Katrina and guess what...I didn't live in New Orleans!!!!

I feel for ya dude,my friend who is an RN in Maryland was so upset that she packed her car up with a million dollars worth of meds and her son and headed to MS,she said same thing everyone was talking about NO,she said was quite devastating,she had 2 page write up in Maryland newspaper,sucks being forgotten one

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I agree with you on that one brother. NOLA was and is a dump. A breeding ground of crime and filth. After Katrina, Texas took in many of the poor and put them up all over the state. I am willing to bet that NEVER happens again. For the most part the criminals we took in NEVER WENT BACK! I am all for helping people in a disaster, but people that demand the governemnt pay to rebuild everything without so much as lifting a finger to help make me sick. Mississippi on the other hand is working it's ass off too come back. You never hear about Mississippi blaming the gov for not giving them a free house, money, and shopping cards. Somebody tell me what exactly most of the poor lost in Katrina...They RENTED HUD homes, they had pretty much nothing, and now expect us to give them a life they did not earn, like they won the lottery......yeah, I dont think so..nice try.


I am sorry for your loss in Mississippi JU. I went through there not long ago, and things look much better. I had heard that mold was the biggest problem right now. keep your chin up, this too shall pass.

Johnny I too am very sorry for your loss.

Like a few others here I also got to drive down I-10 about 9 months after Katrina. What I saw I will never forget. I was expecting to see the most damage as I came up on NO and that was just not the case at all. What I saw in MS broke my heart. I spent a lot of time living in "Tornado alley" and debris and destruction does not bother me too much. What really killed me was seeing a wide open field right off the highway with thousands of tents set up and people living in them. It was the first and the only time I have actually seen a tent city. I was amazed at how the damage began to look better as I got closer to NO and I wondered why NO was getting all the media coverage when it was so blatantly obvious to anyone with working eyes that NO really didnt have it quite as bad as other areas. What happened to MS absolutely broke my heart, but I was even more amazed at how the people there came together to make a horrible situation the best that it could be.

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that is a great point about the crime which has now spread to other areas. I feel very badly for texas, being as how they took the brunt of the "refugees." The spike in crime since katrina (other areas) has gone through the roof.
Another problem is how many of the arrest records and evidence were destroyed in the Storm. Also witnesses for trials were scattered all across the country...it makes it impossible to present a case for trial.
So, as a result, many violent criminals who would otherwise be locked up in Angola...are now running the streets. So the problem became two fold. 1) the criminal element at large was relocated to other areas... then, 2) the criminals who were locked up in jails, had to be set free. So there is a whole new group (and more violent than the first) filling the streets.
The 9th ward, which now abandoned in many areas, is being becoming a haven for a seedy groups and people on the run.

I thought New Orleans was the only place devastated by the hurricane.

Thanks for letting us know. Good job on rebuilding.

When the Northern trouble makers came down here several years ago to take the Mississippi flag by persuading all us dumb Southerners we were backwards for keeping it, we showed them where to go when the state voted to keep her flag (black and white votes). I guess the Federal powers that be didn't forget that humbling experience.