New Orleans
Sep. 1st, 2005 12:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gizaWell, I'm glad I got to see the city before THIS went and happened.
I did some research and, interestingly enough, people had been worried about this exact scenario happening for years. There are some good articles at http://salon.com/books/feature/2005/08/30/mcphee/index_np.html and http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/research/1282151.html. It seems that it's yet another case of the general population and our elected politicians ignoring the experts until it's too late. When will we learn?
Speaking of ignoring people, I also can't help but be really pissed off at the people who stayed in the city after they were told to leave by the government. Now, I'm not talking about "essential" people, such as police and hospital workers, or people who were too poor to get out of the city, or people who were in poor health. I'm talking about average everyday people like OFFICE WORKERS, and TOURISTS. People who had the means to leave the city and chose not to, because they didn't seem to think that a Category 5 hurricane was such as big deal after all. Now they're stuck in a flooding city with no electricity, no running water, and a lack of law and order. Smooth move. Maybe next time you'll actually LISTEN when you're told to get out of the city.
I'm also tempted to make some snide remark about how President Bush should declare "war on mother nature", but I think that's been underway by big corporations and oil companies for a number of years now...
I did some research and, interestingly enough, people had been worried about this exact scenario happening for years. There are some good articles at http://salon.com/books/feature/2005/08/30/mcphee/index_np.html and http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/research/1282151.html. It seems that it's yet another case of the general population and our elected politicians ignoring the experts until it's too late. When will we learn?
Speaking of ignoring people, I also can't help but be really pissed off at the people who stayed in the city after they were told to leave by the government. Now, I'm not talking about "essential" people, such as police and hospital workers, or people who were too poor to get out of the city, or people who were in poor health. I'm talking about average everyday people like OFFICE WORKERS, and TOURISTS. People who had the means to leave the city and chose not to, because they didn't seem to think that a Category 5 hurricane was such as big deal after all. Now they're stuck in a flooding city with no electricity, no running water, and a lack of law and order. Smooth move. Maybe next time you'll actually LISTEN when you're told to get out of the city.
I'm also tempted to make some snide remark about how President Bush should declare "war on mother nature", but I think that's been underway by big corporations and oil companies for a number of years now...
