2) I dont understand why you say you always knew youd be fudged if a big hurricane hit, yet you continued to live there anyway, and seem to be completely unprepared for when the big one actually came. This wasnt a terrorist attack, you knew this was going to happen, yet the threat was quite obviously either ignored, or underestimated.
We have a sensationalist media. Everything from SARS, Ecoli, West Nile Virus, terrorists, hurricanes, are out to kill us.
We hear all the time that California is going to be destroyed by an earthquake and that New Orleans is going to be taken back in the sea, but you learn to live with it. Noone knew when it would happen. Or if it would, every hurricane they tell us about is always, 'The Big One.'\
We don't have drills like Japan or what-not to prepare for disaster save for the non-chalant efforts in the public school system otherwise adults are not prepared.
And if you notice almost all of the suburban middle/upper class populations who could afford it, left New Orleans as quickly as possible, DARC, Jeeba etc, you can see on the news for yourself who got left behind.
As for the threat being underestimated or ignored, it wasn't. What do you think the levee system was for? However it was from the 60s and not made to accomadate a storm, which is reflective of New Orleans. Most buildings old and underequipped.
More could have been done to prepare but while we are an affluent nation, maybe we give out too much and take too little as we could have used better preparation for such a disaster. Louisiana and Mississippi are some of the poorest regions of the nation, due to them never fully recovering from the Civil War and mostly missing out on the industrial revolution compared to many other parts of the South such as Texas, Florida and Georgia. Louisiana, New Orleans specifically lacked much infrastructure especially after oil ran off to Texas, all the products the city had to sell were really to just whore itself out to visitors and taking in goods while the rest of it was made by a passing through oil economy this resulted in many people underemployed in the service industry. If not that, living off government subsistence checks and ending up staying behind when the flood hit.
Transportation shouldve been made available for these people
If you haven't noticed, we're an automobile based society. That's why most everyone left via the highway system, New Orleans itself has a bus system and a street car system but what good does that do for transporting people outside of the city. Gas prices crippled people's ability to move as well.
4) It sickens me to see places being run by armed looters in a country that is meant to be developed, united and civilised. There were areas struck by the Tsunami that were engaged in civil war, yet they managed to come together to help each other out in a time of crisis. it is sickening to see how many Americans are happy to selfishly and thoughtlessly take advantage of such an appauling disaster. If you think the worl d is only looking down on Bush, youre dead wrong. American society as a whole has been put very much in the spotlight, and people arent liking what they see.
a lot of poor people already engaged into criminality were left behind and decided to start stealing, we are a first world nation with a large third world populus, undereducated, underemployed and underdeveloped people are going to be chaotic and unruly when a police state is let off.
Remember New Orleans, is a highly segregated city with most of the whites living in the county or affluent parts of the city and the blacks being quite poor, while the police mostly strive to deal with tourist safety in the city. a lot of alienation went on and once the curtain went all hell broke loose.
If you want to put all of our America on trial for the way some groups in our country act, go fudge yourself, judge us in our time of need while when the tsunami disaster happens or earthquakes in Iran happen we are the first on the scene to help out.
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