92%? say…
80,000 stayed in region / 1,000,000 population in region = 0.08 –> that means 92% evacuated from southeast Louisiana, such as was my claim.

Officials report 66,000 were actually emergency evacuated post-k. And, some officials claim 1,200,000 southeast Louisianians evacuated pre-k. Do the math and give us the credit we deserve.

Some say only 80% evacuated Pre-k from Orleans Parish.

What percentage do you think evacuated Rocky?

The mis-perceptions by lefties and righties and nearly everyone else about our very successful Katrina evacuation is very insulting to the 1,000,000 of us that evacuated before the storm. We should be commended for our efforts. IT was the second time we evacuated that summer. Furthermore, while I’m not a fan of Nagin or Blanco, in regards to the pre-k evacuation, they performed about as well as can be expected – So did surrounding parish leaders. It was the best evacuation the city has ever had. Our local weather reporters and news media did a great job encouraging us to leave too. NOAA’a National Weather Service really deserves special credit and recognition for their Pre-K performance. You and everyone else who shares your ignorance should apologize for your insulting misperceptions.

’substantiate that number’?

I wish you had been in that traffic jam that took everyone about six hours just to get as far as Baton Rouge. Substantiation:

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Look in the mirror if you want to see a crack pot.

And, stop calling me names and stop blaming us Katrina victims for doing an evacuation as best we could. Like I said, I bet your city couldn’t evacuate as well as we did Pre-k. We deserve credit.

And, these poor souls in Myanmar, and even their government, should be somewhat forgiven for not performing better before their storm or even now. Things are not as easy or as simple as they appear. Just look at how such a thing was handled by a ’superpower’.

Again, I’m glad I’m not there or have friends or family there. The Burmese are going to have it even rougher than we did – by far.

rockyroad can

Fact is, this Administration supremely f’d Katrina. Now it’s trying to allay its wrongdoing by blaming another regime of duplicating its wrongs.

Pretty simple.

Dead poor people. Dubya doesn’t care, Laura doesn’t care, the Myanmar regime doesn’t care . . . who can make political hay out of the deaths of thousands? Dubya and Laura. Dubya is responsible for the deaths of thousands in Iraq and Laura has murdered at least one old boyfriend . . . who really gives a flying f**k?

Don’t think so . . . substantiate that number. You can’t.

I just want to call you at home!

Is there noone on this website willing to join me? Yeah, Katrina was due to a Gay Pride Parade?

Amen.
I wish I could have said it that clearly.

I said 92% – not 98% – It is a fact. It was the second time we evacuated in 2005. Ever since Hurricane Georges it has been a family tradition for us. By Sunday evening, we Southeast Louisiana evacuees filled nearly every hotel room in Houston, Lafayette, Lake Charles, San Antonio, Beaumont, Dallas, Memphis, Jackson, Vicksburg, Baton Rouge, Monroe, Shreveport, Alexandria and dozens of other places. Every single family on my block in Lakeview evacuated before the storm. Every single relative I have here evacuated. All of my wife’s extended family evacuated. Chalmette, New Orleans East, Gentilly, Lakeview, all of Metry, the west bank, Slidell all looked like ghost towns by Sunday afternoon. We moved back to a rental in the warehouse district 10/14/05 and have been here since and of everyone I knew before the storm, only a small handful did not evacuate. Of course, since the storm, I’ve gotten to know a bunch of people that did not evacuate. The misperceptions about our evacuation, widespread destruction, the levees, our recovery and ‘lifestyle’ seem endless.

Here is another fact you probably don’t know: Over two thirds of us had flood insurance, but rarely enough to afford to get back in our severely flooded homes.

‘The levees were undermined from the bottom and then were topped when the bottom fell out. Clearly this is not a partisian issue.’

This is true and I agree. But both the left and right have made every effort to turn it into a stupid political issue rather than the human tragedy that it was and continues to be.
And, our government refuses to be accountable for their negligence that caused our losses. It is infuriating.

‘I am so tired of people on this website pretending to be residents of places they do not live.’

I’m sitting on my couch in my rebuilt home in the 6400 block of Vicksburg Street in NOLA, 70124. We rebuilt with our living area above the Katrina flood line – parking and storage underneath in our concrete ‘raised basement’. It was not easy or cheap getting home. Our mortgage is much larger than it was and for another thirty years rather than just the eleven we had left pre-k. Insurance and utilities cost a *lot* more than they used to. We’re very lucky in that we have a few neighbors in our block. Look out my window and you would see a few rebuilt homes, a few empty lots where homes stood pre-k and three flooded, but at least gutted abandoned homes where no one knows whats going on. Our zip code still has no post office or public school and just this week we finally got a little bit of public transportation.

For you to suggest that we should forget New Orleans and the Gulf Coast and focus on the disaster in Myanmar is ludicrous. The latest tragedy does not trump the prior tragedy. We should learn from the former to minimize the damage from the latter.

I reckon I was not clear, but I never said ‘forget New Orleans’. Having gone through this, I find it appalling that while 100k people just drowned and about a million more have been suddenly made homeless, US Citizens want to use it as just another excuse to argue about politics.
You think I hate lefties? You are correct, but I hate right wingers just as much. At this point, there are very few politicians I respect. They have all failed us.

We should learn from the former to minimize the damage from the latter.

I’m damned tired of people ‘learning’ stuff as a result of our losses. F learning. We are still all messed up here. We’re still waiting for and deserve a rescue. I’m going to be real mad when a big disaster happens somewhere else in this country and they actually get treated like US citizens because of all the ‘learning’ that was done at our expense.

New Orleans cajuns don’t even say “ya’ll.”

Generalizations? I’ve been saying y’all all my life. And, I am a yat raised in Gentilly. Most Cajuns don’t live in New Orleans, but I was born and raised here and I do happen to be of Cajun descent, but I don’t speak French. As a matter of fact I am one of the few remaining male direct descendant of Joseph Broussard dit Beausoleil who led 58 of the first Acadian families to Louisiana in 1765. No one really liked him. He was a crazy drunkard rebel rouser, like I’ve been since those levees fell down. Before this, I was never any kind of ‘activist’ for anything. Since the storm, I’ve done everything I can manage, and then some, to try to help all New Orleanians get home and to get us some reliable flood protection and federal money to help pay for our recovery. While we’ve mostly failed miserably in our efforts, I find it amazing the positive changes that can result from efforts by small groups of people.

Now instead of arguing about our fate in New Orleans, please consider the people in Myanmar.

I am so tired of people on this website pretending to be residents of places they do not live. The levees were undermined from the bottom and then were topped when the bottom fell out. Clearly this is not a partisian issue. This is an issue of the structural integrity of America’s infrastructure and of the failure of an Administration to take responsible pre-emptive action.

Where you get your 98% figure boggles the brain. I lived in New Orleans for years and went down to help friends pack up and leave before the storm. Many residents of the 9th Ward had no place to go. For so many of us who have lived through multiple hurricanes in New Orleans, it was not completely unreasonable to ride out the storm. The storm wasn’t the problem. The levees were. Bush knew about the problem with the levees and relaxed in Crawford even after having been briefed about it. No one considers this a partisian problem. It is an ongoing disaster for which the vast majority of Americans of every persuasion view harshly.

For you to suggest that we should forget New Orleans and the Gulf Coast and focus on the disaster in Myanmar is ludicrous. The latest tragedy does not trump the prior tragedy. We should learn from the former to minimize the damage from the latter. From Katrina, this Administration has learned nothing, except to to repeat the blame/shame that they encountered from a ruthless, coldly calculated dismissal.

Would you have us send our formaldyhide polluted trailers to Myanmay along with our troops. Perhaps we can quietly kill their population and set up bases there.

Like Laura, you are a wolf in sheeps clothing . . . but even a quick read of your post shows that you are all over the page in your insincerity. New Orleans cajuns don’t even say “ya’ll.”

Y’all make me mad – both those of you on the right and left. Our losses should never have become a partisan issue!!!

And, BTW… 1) 92% of Southeast Louisiana evacuated before Katrina! Give us some credit – I bet your community couldn’t do that with two days notice!
2) It was not a ‘natural disaster’ that caused our losses. We lost everything because of the worst engineering disaster in US history by the US Army Corps of Engineers. We maintained those levees just fine.

Now instead of arguing about our fate in New Orleans, please consider the people in Myanmar.

That storm sure took a deadly track. The north-east side of a Hurricane is the most vicious and pushes the greatest storm surge and the storm ran on a north east track along their coast – bad, bad, bad. The region normally has all the fresh water they could ever want, but it might be quite a while before that isn’t an issue. With all the news about rice shortages, their whole country might suffer food shortages for the next year or so since this region was a major producer of their rice.. Loss of livestock, boats, docks… 20,000+ deaths? The grief! mass confusion! Unidentified bodies. Infections! Everything caked in mud. Debris everywhere. Heat & humidity. Stench! Housing? Electricity? communications? Mosquitos & coffin flies! decimated graves. Nothing left to even loot for survival. Broken sewage systems? The bigger the effected region, the harder and longer it takes to recover or even get initial aid. I mean, how can you really help your cousin when you lost everything too along with your whole village and region, your livlihood, your local government, medical facilities, churches, hardware & grocery stores, fuel sources… I sure hope those survivors somehow get some help or a bunch more will likely die miserably in coming weeks and months. food, water, shelter, clothes, fuel, building material or a ride away from the problems. Man oh man, I wouldn’t want to be one of the survivors along that Myanmar coast.

The topic of conversation was Laura Bush’s comments on Myanmar . . .that’s where the conversation should go. . . an important topic . . . getting back . . .

Ot we understand your poor acronym for New Orleans?

Ot you have attended grade school so that your crummy acronym makes sense?

What the hell is your point?

The correct acronym for New Orleans is N.O., La. or NOLa.

Get over yourself.

Means nothing but to the intelligent. NOLA means little ot anyone.

N. O. L. A. means nothing to the ignorant!

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I’m going to a happier place. . . don’t want to think about this anymore.

You are talking Texas plains . . . not treed urban areas.

Although previous news accounts have reported Douglas was thrown from the car and broke his neck, those details were not in the report.

The speed of Laura Bush’s car was illegible on the report. The speed limit for the road was 55.

Laura Bush and her passenger, Judy Dykes, also 17, were taken to a hospital and treated for minor injuries, according to an accident account printed at the time in the Midland Reporter-Telegram.

The police report indicates no charges were filed. That section of the report was left blank.

”As far as we know, no charges were filed,” said Midland city attorney Keith Stretcher. ”I don’t think it’s unusual that charges weren’t filed.”

The speed limit on the road that she was on was 30 mph. No investigation was undertaken and no citatations were issued although it was agreed by all that she was flying when she ran the stop sign and T-boned her former boyfriend’s car. Witnesses said that he was thrown from the car and broke his neck.