I would like to keep a thread going taking in the devastation of New Orleans and other cities in the U.S. thanks to Hurricane Katrina. So far from what I've heard the overall death toll is 100 and is expected to rise. Damage estimates I heard were at 14 billion, although that was before the other levees started to give way letting more flood waters into the downtown areas of New Orleans. From what I've heard, the hardest hit areas include New Orleans, 100% flooded, a little parish (town) south of there called St. Bernard or something like that, 100% submerged, about 40,000 homes in total, Biloxi, and Gulf Port, with hotels, casiones, homes, buisness, industries, washed away, and with a minimal amount of oil proproganda, damage to Oil Refineries and the offshore oil wells.
New Orleans Down Under
Ok reports from the Coast Guard indicate that as many as seven oil rigs are adrift in the Gulf of Mexico, should be interesting to see if they sink. In addition, damage to oil refineries and surronding areas is severe enough to say that they will be shut down for upwards of 6 weeks or more, so expect prices at the pump to skyrocket even more.
Ok reports from the Coast Guard indicate that as many as seven oil rigs are adrift in the Gulf of Mexico, should be interesting to see if they sink. In addition, damage to oil refineries and surronding areas is severe enough to say that they will be shut down for upwards of 6 weeks or more, so expect prices at the pump to skyrocket even more.
I read reports of hundreds dead, just floating about.
Now, in regards to the TV at least, the only two american channels I recieve are CNN and FOX.
Hardly a hub of good reporting.
Anyway, is it just me, or is the general consensus coming out of the state is that the state officials are doing a half-assed job of getting people out of there?
What's the point of the govenor of New Orleans telling people to evacuate, when the majority of those left are the people who couldn't (for whatever reason) get out in the first place.
Odd too that most left are either elderly, black, already homeless or a mix of all three.
Hardly a hub of good reporting.
Anyway, is it just me, or is the general consensus coming out of the state is that the state officials are doing a half-assed job of getting people out of there?
What's the point of the govenor of New Orleans telling people to evacuate, when the majority of those left are the people who couldn't (for whatever reason) get out in the first place.
Odd too that most left are either elderly, black, already homeless or a mix of all three.
Oh man, can you imagine what it would be like if another hurricane suddenly popped up in the Gulf and headed for New Orleans?
And it's entirely possible too, given that we have two months to go, tropical storm 13 looked like it but then it turned north in the Atlantic, that city should be abandoned until December at least.
Another 100 people might die. Whoop-dee-fucking-doo.
It's really, really starting to piss me off how whenever any slight "tragedy" occurs in the USA, the whole world is expected to drop whatever it is they're doing and weep pitifully. Because, y'know, they're AMERICANS. Therefore, their lives must be worth more than ours, by default.
Recently, 400 or so bombs (I don't quite remember the exact number) exploded simultaneously all across Bangladesh. Granted, the death toll was relatively low, but how much TV coverage do you think that got in the States ? It makes me sick how nothing short of a tsunami can get people to look outside of their own personal little bubbles and get some fucking perspective.
I guess this would be a bad time to sing New Orleans Is Sinking.
"Who gives a crap about what happens in Bangladesh?" <---general thinking