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Originally Posted by Jonbo298
Yeah, I wanna see the images of N O after the water is finally drained just to see how bad the devastation truly is. Right now its mostly covered by water (obviously  )
But another thing that concerns me is that it seems like they ordered the mandatory evacuations too late and people probably underestimated how devastating it could be.
If it was made widely public that this hurricane will put New Orleans underwater and was shouted throughout city to everyone, I suspect more would have left |
It was made widely public that this hurricane would destroy New Orleans. I knew it from here in Houston, and they definitely knew it there in Nola. The governer or mayor of some town in Mississippi said he was "scared to death" by Katrina a day or two before the storm. If that isn't enough to get someone out, there's not much else to do.
I think they did everything they could to tell people to leave Nola, barring going from street to street and house to house forcing people to leave which is a logistical impossibility with the day and a half they had. And it sounds good to say that they should have ordered the mandatory evacuation earlier, but it wasn't certain that it would hit Nola EVEN at the time of when they ordered the evacuation.
I've only lived in New Orleans about three years now, but I've already been through four or five hurricane scares. Every year I've been there New Orleans has ordered an evacuation (sometimes two evacuations), and it always turned out to be nothing. It becomes a joke, a fun time and a holiday. Now imagine living there thirty years and going through that every year--you stop caring. Obviously many people weren't so ignorant, but there are always gonna be some who ride it out.
About the race issue, I think it's not a race issue. I agree with DeathsHand. I however DO think it's a valid TOPIC to bring up, I mean you'd have to put your blinders on to not notice that the evacuees that were stuck were mostly black and mostly poor. But I completely disagree that it's a race issue. The mayor of New Orleans is black--what about him? Isn't he largely responsible for New Orleans? Or is he racist, too? And remember, this is one of THE worst disasters EVER to occur in the U.S. This was no one's fault but Katrina herself.