Lessons from the Private Sector and Coast Guard During Katrina

[Ken White]

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...And I ain't even gonna get into the Law Enforcement issues that came out of this.

Our Sheriff sent a crew over and they came back with horror stories about NOPD. Youngest son's Brother in Law went down from GA as Firefighter/Paramedic and he has a few as well and some scathing commentary on the LAArNG...

The one big similarity between Andrew and Katrina was the reluctance of the Governors from one party to ask the President from another party for help. In Andrew, Governor Chiles refused for three days to ask for Federal Assistance; the only thing that got him off the dime was the then Adjutant General of the Florida Guard threatening to resign and go public with why. IMO, for politicians to politicize a disaster is criminal.

That doesn't even address the blithering stupidity and culpability of all the mainstream media in reporting both Hurricanes -- but Katrina was a textbook example of how not to do it...

[davidbfpo]

Thread re-opened after a "lurker" recommended this 2015 article 'The Katrina Disaster and the Politics of Disavowal' by an academic from New Orleans:http://www.newclearvision.com/2015/0...nst-resilence/

This figure alone suggests the recovery has not happened:

In fact, as a recent report shows, “New Orleans is now at about 78 percent of its population before the storm” and the recent growth rate has been 1.4%.Aggregating the population with surrounding parishes is a transparent ploy to confuse the public. Many have not come back to New Orleans because of lack of opportunities here and because the dominant model of development has created obstacles to their return. To make them disappear through fake statistics is an outrage. Landrieu obviously didn’t grasp the ludicrous but painful irony of calling the post-Katrina era, in which almost a quarter of the population did not return, “the best come-back story” in U.S. history!