During Katrina the entitled class, created by the democrats expected everything from everybody else.
Yup. Just kinda hunkered down and got to work doin’ what needed to be done and not waiting for “help”. Different times back then. Man am I getting older or what?
“During Katrina the entitled class, created by the democrats expected everything from everybody else.”
I have to say upfront that these were two very different storms, in two very different centuries. And...
I have to respectfully disagree, WRT Mississippi.
Sorry for pinpointing your post. But, some history has to be shared, and yours was the first post I found to share it. ;o)
No one remembered that the eye of the storm hit the MS coast, instead of NOLA. In fact, few even reported on it. It was a factoid that was reported in real time, and not much after that.
NOLA’s problems happened a couple of days later, when the defective levees broke.
Everything was fine in NOLA until then, and then Shep’s and Geraldo’s hysteria ensued. Lordy! Have you ever seen so many reports to be so wrong?
The folks on the MS coast were left to their own devices in the aftermath of Katrina mostly because help was hard pressed to get within 150 miles of there. There were many roads/interstates closed due to the downing of millions of trees.
Staging for relief was at the Naval Air Station, in Meridian. That’s as far as Anderson Cooper, whose father is a Meridian native, could get. So.......not much reporting from that fearless CNN guy. I believe he enjoyed the food, though.
The storm surge in Katrina at 35 feet beat Camille’s 18 feet. Katrina was, also, very large and slow moving. That’s where so much of the damage occurred.
I have friends on the coast who describe it as being in a tornado for 12 hours.
OTOH, Camille was extremely strong, yet compact compared to Katrina.
Camille hit Jackson, 150 miles inland, and did some damage.
Katrina caused over half of the counties in MS to be declared a federal disaster area. My hometown is 150 miles inland, and it was much, much worse during Katrina.