Katrina

[Elcoholic]

And i hate to disagree but you can never fully prepare for this. no one can truely predict what the weather will do. And they didn't plan on levey's breaking which has caused majority of the damage.

Well, the storm even lost a bit of its power before reaching land (went from class 5 to class 4 hurricane). Plus it changed dirrection just before reaching NO. They expected it to be more powerfull in NO a day before it hit so I think the richest country in the world should have prepared for even a worse situation. Also there were reports and warnings by engeniers stating the levey's wouldn't be able to hold back the water with such a storm. It should and could be expected for them to break down. And why wasn't the entire city evacuated? Why does it take ceveral days for troops to arrive while the looting started taking place on the first day? Why isn't there a huge warehouse packed with water and food about where you live so it could have been there in a day? I heard some reporter ask himself why it takes the government a couple of days to get help there while he could drive to he superdome in 2 hours. And there are so many thing that could have been prepared beter. It was ceverely underestimated and that shouldn't happen in the US I think.

African Americans make up 67.25% of the population of New Orleans (whites are only 28%) so it's normal to see a lot of black people, doing all sorts of things (good and bad), it's not bad reporting

Someone on another forum posted 2 news reports from Yahoo news. Both accompanied with a picture of someone wading through the water with a bag of looted goods and one of them was white and the other black. With the white man the comment is he was wading through the water after "finding" goods in a local grocery store and you geuss what they said how the black man got these goods. On tv they only show black people looting and they repeat the same movies all the time. I don't know but to me it all seems on purpose, biased and not good for the already tense race relations in the south.

I'm sorry but this is the dumbest thing i've heard anyone say in a long time. The government isn't going to just leave people there and make up stories of people firing at choppers...

Well, your definition of dumb comments differ from most of us so I won't take it personal.
What I mean to say is I think your government 'might' use this 'news' to cover for the bad preparation I mention above. Try to get the attention away from the real problem. Anyway, I fear that once again noone in your government will take responsibility and use stories like this to cover for their own mistake.