Comments on: Hurricane Katrina and the Demographics of Death

By: Zydeco76

Zydeco76 — Mon, 28 Apr 2014 11:08:00 +0000

As somebody that was smack in the middle of Katrina when it made landfall I can say with confidence that this article is a straight up political hit job. Right at Bush it goes… Katrina affected every inch of coast from Mobile to New Orleans. It wiped entire towns off the map. You focus on New Orleans which did infact “dodge the Bullet” It caught the edge. Yes that brought a lot of water. Biloxi got hit with a 30-40 ft wall of water. LA took serious damage. There was not an inch of Mississippi that did not get some damage. The gov of LA and the Mayor of NO are responsible for the carnage that occurred later. MS came out of the storm better off than it had been before as it applied the MASSIVE funds given by Bush to improving industry and infrastructure. In NO they were more worried about stealing everyones guns and looting. Yes I mean the authorities were looting. Waveland was leveled Bay St Louis was leveled. Many small towns were destroyed. But here we are making a litteral “act of god” into a race baiting piece political hit job. Wanna bad mouth Bush? Go ahead he gave plenty of ammo. @ obsurd wars and the AIG bailout are legitimate examples. Want to critisize FEMA? Go ahead they gave plenty of ammo. Implying that Bush neglected NO becuause he don’t care about black people is stupid false and pathetic.

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By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 15:16:00 +0000

Um. Try reading again. The figures you’re calling bunk were the figures for people who didn’t/couldn’t evacuate. You are looking at the figures for corpse counts (assuming those are actually valid anyway)

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USA: Inga evakueringsplaner för funkisar! | Funkpol.se — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 07:10:43 +0000

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By: gennieraider

gennieraider — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 06:16:00 +0000

I did not bother to read most of your post because at a glance I can tell you the stat’s are wrong. 55 percent were African-American, compared to 40 percent white, 2 percent Hispanic and 1 percent Asian-Pacific. It pretty much matched the make up of the city (but in fairness I will say there were 30-35 or so people where race was never determined). 85 percent were older than 51 and almost half were older than 75. “Neither race nor gender made anyone more likely to die, only age, a failure to evacuate and a location near a levee breach.” http://www.nola.com/hurricane/index.ssf/2009/08/answers_are_scarce_in_study_of.html
I am from New Orleans. I live in Jefferson and suffered only tree damage but my mother, family members and many of my friends lost their homes and everything inside them. I have spent a great deal of time reading various reports and investigations regarding Katrina. Sorry, your sources are junk for the most part and very little of what you have written is correct.

By: TeakLipstickFiend

TeakLipstickFiend — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 04:12:00 +0000

Why?

By: JF

JF — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 18:07:00 +0000

As someone who lived in the area during Katrina, and housed evacuees from New Orleans for a month, I KNOW it was handled poorly. But I do want to point out, Mayor Nagin is an African American. If you’re going to make ethnicity an important component of this article, you should make note of that as well.

By: Kelsey P

Kelsey P — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 15:15:00 +0000

Hmm, gives Kanye West’s comments more validity….