What Did YOU Learn From Hurricane Katrina?

Cloud9 · Intermediate Crude Joined: Jul 26, 2006 Posts: 834

When the power goes out, the gas pumps don't work.

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Oil Canals May Have Worsened Katrina
The Associated Press Tue, Jan 22, 2008
Service canals dug to tap oil and natural gas dart everywhere through the black mangrove shrubs, bird rushes and golden marsh. From the air, they look like a Pac-Man maze superimposed on an estuarine landscape 10 times the size of Grand Canyon National Park.
There are 10,000 miles of these oil canals. They fed America's thirst for energy, but helped bring its biggest delta to the brink of collapse. They also connect an overlooked set of dots in the Hurricane Katrina aftermath: The role that some say the oil industry played in the $135 billion disaster, the nation's costliest.
The delta, formed by the accumulation of the Mississippi River's upstream mud over thousands of years, is a shadow of what it was 100 years ago. Since the 1930s, a fifth of the 10,000-square-mile delta has turned into open water, decreasing the delta's economic and ecologic value by as much as $15 billion a year, according to Louisiana State University studies.
The rate of land loss, among the highest in the world, has exposed New Orleans and hundreds of other communities to the danger of drowning. Katrina made that painfully clear. …
Oil canals a problem?
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The right to keep and bear arms - don't hold water......... Razz

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Kill the messenger, Tex? Spike Lee interviews several folks caught up in the maelstrom of Hurricane Katrina, in this documentary. Someone was wishing that they could hear about the disaster from the inside--well here's the most definitive inside story in existence on Katrina in New Orleans.
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I watched the 'documentary' and thought it was good comedy. I enjoyed the part where evenhanded Spike asks the white guy what weapons he had and then asks him if he was hunting bin Laden, connecting a white guy defending his house with terrorists.

More humorous was the two black youths bumbling their way through the explanation of the 'debris' they had and how they got shot for looking at this 'debris'.

Even funnier is the video of the black cops looting.

Do a quick search on YouTube. You'll be there hours.

The Third World in our Midst

mistylady · Coal Joined: Apr 20, 2008 Posts: 14

I learned that the government will indeed grab your legally owned guns if they want to. I had wondered if they would push the sheeple and they did.

I learned that Civil War II is not as far off as I had thought. The book by T. Chittum is worth a read.

I learned that the powers that be can silence the truth faster than I thought.

I learned that the truth will be flushed down the memory hole and people will forget rapidly and go on with their heads in the sand.

patience · Light Sweet Crude Joined: Jan 04, 2008 Posts: 1177

dunewalker,
That same crowd got on buses to go to Houston's stadium where they were fed and housed for nothing. It was a question of do you want to work for a living, or lay around and let charity support you? Their choice was obvious. Nobody shot them, nor offered to, but a lot of locals ran out of charitable spirit in a hurry, I'm told. There were some shootings in NO, but once removed to an obviously safer city, only two wanted to work for a living.

Anybody read the line,"the crime rate went through the roof"?

Got anyone on here from Houston who can illuminate this situation?

I noticed on TV reports that NO crime rate dropped, after the fact, and was compared to "Mayberry,USA". Houston, however, had some really disgusted police.

Anybody here have nice fluffy responses to the increase in street crime in this event? Ask my childhood schoolmate, now retired from drug enforcement in a major city about his responses, after carrying his disembowelled partner up the steps into the emergency room. (They saved him.) I'm beginning to think that some of us here haven't seen the underbelly of our society up close and personal. If you have that experience, it does affect your outlook a bit.

edit: I wouldn't have shot anyone either. I don't think I know anyone who would have. The question remains, however, how should those who refuse to support themselves be treated? Jamestown rules make sense to me. If you are able and you don't work, you don't eat. Works for me. I deeply resent that my tax money contributed to feeding those louts.
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patience · Light Sweet Crude Joined: Jan 04, 2008 Posts: 1177

You're right Ludi. I wish I hadn't said that.

I still harbor some real ill feelings that some of that same bunch who wouldn't go to work were later arrested for violent crimes that put my family member at risk. I've known and liked the man for 43 years. To his credit, he did it all by the book, risking his life to get them their day in court. I could not, would not do his job. He has 3 kids at home. No excuses here, but maybe it gives background to my feelings about it all.
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