Katrina and Gustav-A Grandmother's Moral of Both Storms

The Kaitlyn Mae Book Blog ^ | 9/18/08 | Pat Fish

[Fishtalk]

In 2005 I began the laborious process of documenting Hurricane Katrina, its effect, the pathetic situation in New Orleans, levees that broke even though endless money had been thrown at the problem, school buses left to ruin in the flood waters, poor people herded into the SuperDome and the lying media who desperately wanted riots and disorder which never really came although they reported it.

President Bush was blamed for Katrina only a)Presidents, save possibly future President Obama the Messiah, cannot stop hurricanes, and b)this sort of thing is a local job with the feds expected to come in much later.

It is now 2008 and along comes Hurricane Gustav. THIS hurricane was not as deadly as Katrina but only because the levees didn't break and the local elected officials did their damn job, including the newly elected Republican Governor voted in when Louisiana realized what a bunch of losers headed their state.

Here is my missive to Kaitlyn under the series I call "Katrina for Kaitlyn" because I vowed to document all info on Katrina that Kaitlyn knows the truth about how it all came down.

Gustav allows me to finish my moral of the Katrina story and I smile that Kaitlyn will someday read all about it on Grandmother's Blog as opposed to, say, her lying public school textbooks.

A bittersweet musing from Guest Writer Michelle documents dentists, fear, pain and all that teeth require to function properly.

[Tarpon]

Don’t build houses out of sticks and straw in hurricane areas. As a corollary, don’t build anything below sea level.

[avacado]

"this sort of thing is a local job with the feds expected to come in much later."

Exactly! I just went through hurricane Ike here in Houston. I was dumbfounded when our great state of Texas was waiting on frikin' FEMA to bring ice to Houston. Can you believe that? Our state officials sat on their butts while waiting for the Feds to bring us ice.

We, Americans, have got to get off the nanny tit of the federal government! Is it any wonder that New Orleans was a complete mess! Hint: it wasn't Bush!