Katrina, a year on.

[jvlm.123 0]

Bush in New Orleans for Katrina anniversary

29 August 2006 07:48

The US President, George W Bush, has arrived in the city of New Orleans to mark the first anniversary of Hurricane Katrina which killed 1,500 people.

Only around half of the pre-storm population of 455,000 have returned to the city, much of which remains in ruins.

The White House has been harshly criticised for what was seen as a slow response.

Mr Bush acknowledged the frustrations of survivors but insisted the government was listening and responding to local concerns.

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Wow, seems that things in and around New Orleans won't be right again for years, maybe even decades...

[owenluby 1]

True,

I forgot about Hurricane Katrina or a while...

[Constantina 5]

Look at both views. Any side could not be well: another flood and New Orleans could be of Atlantis proportions. It is also expensive to move the whole city to higher ground.

[coolotter88 2]

its gonna be pretty easy to flood the city again. I wonder if terrorists even thought of flooding the city.

[Mr. B 3]

Originally posted by: coolotter88 its gonna be pretty easy to flood the city again. I wonder if terrorists even thought of flooding the city.quote>

You'd need a pretty damn big crater to start flooding the city without the help of 'bad weather.'

I live in New Orleans and even in the shape it's in there's no where else I'd rather be... most every place else is just too boring.  I would guess it'll be a good 10-20 years before the city is back on its feet, which I don't really consider surprising given the scope of the work ahead.  I think the 24 huor news cycle generates alot of impatience.  Seeing people on Tv talk about the (lack of) progress, you'd think Rome was built in a day.

[coolotter88 2]

hey welcome to this place.

[DuskTrooper 314]

Meanwhile, we're babysitting 200,000 New Orleans refugees here in Houston...

[Micah 16]

... and the crime rate has exploded in the Houston area one month after Katrina and the crime rate has gone down in New Orleans except for murder rates. Anyone see a connection?

[Stik Fig 2]

Finally someone with the *** to say something like that.

[MarcosMX 216]

wow I didn't know New Orlean's people were responsable for the crime in Houston. Here in Memphis, there are 50,000 people from New Orleans, and the crime in the city has nothing to do with these people. They behave, and love our city.

[coolotter88 2]

memphis is too cold for those cold blooded animals...they'd all freeze to death, thats why they moved to houston instead.

[Micah 16]

Coolotter88: I'm not sure if that is an insult or a compliment or something else. ??

Btw, I didn't mean all the people are causing the problems. Of course, that isn't the case. In fact, over twenty kids in my school are from New Orleans and most of them are my best friends (Eek... well, bad example. Three of them that are not my best friends have been expelled from school already. ). However, in all of those 200,000 people, at least 2% of them are gang related people and that 2% can cause serious problems throughout the city by either coming back together or joining other Houston gangs.

[coolotter88 2]

umm, i can't figure out whether if it is an insult or a compliment either , it was just a joke statement. so do you're friends want to stay in bee-u-tiful (sort of) houston? or will they be moving back to new orleans?

[confused04 14]

This day only reminds me of a city ignored by its elected officials. Its hard to not blame them as the Katrina Scenario has been known for at least 40 years after Hurricane Betsy made landfall in New Orleans. Having to see people hurt and dying in the short term, and the lack of response in the long term, is very heart breaking. I don't blame the people for living there, people gotta live somewhere and someone's gotta operate the Port of New Orleans. But to this day, the Lower Ninth Ward is still left in ruins and people who have applied for federal assistance, are still on their own.

Katrina exposed what the government is, an inefficient tangle of red tape and finger pointing.

[Micah 16]

As far as I know, they are all staying in Houston. In fact, with all the people I know that are from New Orleans, none of them have gone back.

As for Mayor Nagin, he was on NBC News with Micheal Williams. He was talking about rebuilding New Orleans and the first thing he mentioned was that he was working with Donald Trump to build three 11-story condos. He didn't mention rebuilding the Lower Ninth Ward.

[Easy Bakes 253]

Originally posted by: confused04 This day only reminds me of a city ignored by its elected officials. Its hard to not blame them as the Katrina Scenario has been known for at least 40 years after Hurricane Betsy made landfall in New Orleans. Having to see people hurt and dying in the short term, and the lack of response in the long term, is very heart breaking. I don't blame the people for living there, people gotta live somewhere and someone's gotta operate the Port of New Orleans. But to this day, the Lower Ninth Ward is still left in ruins and people who have applied for federal assistance, are still on their own.

Katrina exposed what the government is, an inefficient tangle of red tape and finger pointing.quote>

 

I noticed that myself.

Seems they had enough money to rebuild sports stadiums, hotels and casinos but not schools

and houseing. Incredible missmanagement but expected from the most corrupt state/city  govt

ever.

[cityhawk 12]

What I'm about to say has probably been talked about before on ST, but it just makes me mad that they aren't giving but maybe the slightest mention to the hardest hit places: Waveland, Gulfport, and Biloxi (all in Mississippi), and Bayou la Batre in Alabama was wiped out as well. You flip through different news channels: New Orleans...New Orleans...New Orleans...Waveland (for 10 seconds), and back to New Orleans...

[coolotter88 2]

well the sports stadiums, hotels, and casinos are needed for establishing the base economy of new orleans...:roll: