Thread: McCain says U.S. government failed New Orleans
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Old 04-25-2008, 06:02 AM   #6 (permalink)
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I don't think the government failed New Orleans.
::utting on my PN hat:::
New Orleans was a sh#thole pretty much other than the French Quarter(which was spared incidentally). And the people that stayed in a city shaped like a bowl when you have DAYS of warning that a CAT5 hurricane is coming are idiots. MANY cities were decimated by this hurricane OTHER than New Orleans. This obsession over this one place just pisses me off. There was a 90 mile swath of coastline and homes that were wiped out by the storm surge that went up to 5 miles inland.

I was watching Weather Channel coverage where Jeff Cantore was miles inland and the bottom fllor of the building he was in was under water. All this "New Orleans was failed" BS is just that, BS. The government did it's best to help all the people that were effected. This was a disaster of never before seen severity. But as for New Orleans, if you live in a city that is in danger of flooding from a CAT3 storm, when the CAT5 one is coming, you might better get the F out. And if you are too poor to get out in the face of those dangers, maybe you are too poor to live in New Orleans.