Posted on 05/07/2010 5:33:54 PM PDT by big black dog
Looked up death toll for Katrina. 1,836 deaths, and 81 billion is damages according to Wikipedia. 1577 death in Louisiana alone with 135 listed as still missing.
Katrina redistributed over one million people from the central Gulf coast elsewhere across the United States, which became the largest diaspora in the history of the United States.[69] Houston, Texas, had an increase of 35,000 people.
In Texas, where more than 300,000 refugees were located, local officials ran 20,000 criminal background checks on the refugees, as well as on the relief workers helping them and people who opened up their homes. The background checks found that 45% of the refugees had a criminal record of some nature, and that 22% had a violent criminal record.[84] The number of homicides in Houston from September 2005 through February 22, 2006 went up by 23% relative to the same period a year before; 29 of the 170 murders involved displaced Louisianans as victims or suspects.[85]
It's okay. We didn't need his useless a$$ down here trying to score political points.
The death toll is higher than I thought it would be. That is a tragedy, and yet still, mother nature with all of her wrath, did not kill as many as a few dirtbag muslims did on nine/eleven.
Thanks for taking the time to do that. I was thinking that 30 is a terrible toll for a flood.
Damned straight.
Yes he does.
“No No No No No! Not God Bless America! God Damn America!...”
Rev. Wright, Obama’s minister of twenty years.
If you live outside of Nashville, you may not be aware, but our city was hit by a 500-year flood over the last few days. The national news coverage gave us 15 minutes, but went back to focusing on a failed car bomb and an oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. While both are clearly important stories, was that any reason to ignore our story? It may not be as terror-sexy as a failed car bomb or as eco-sexy as an oil spill, but thats no reason to be ignored.
The Cumberland River crested at its highest level in over 80 years. Nashville had its highest rainfall totals since records began. People drowned. Billions of dollars in damage occurred. It is the single largest disaster to hit Middle Tennessee since the Civil War. And yet
no one knows about it.
Does it really matter? Eventually, it will
as I mentioned, there are billions of dollars in damage. It seems bizarre that no one seems to be aware that we just experienced what is quite possibly the costliest non-hurricane disaster in American history. The funds to rebuild will have to come from somewhere, which is why people need to know. Its hard to believe that we will receive much relief if there isnt a perception that we need it.
But lets look at the other side of the coin for a moment. A large part of the reason that we are being ignored is because of who we are. Think about that for just a second. Did you hear about looting? Did you hear about crime sprees? No
you didnt. You heard about people pulling their neighbors off of rooftops. You saw a group of people trying to move two horses to higher ground. No
we didnt loot. Our biggest warning was, Dont play in the floodwater. When you think about it
that speaks a lot for our city. A large portion of why we were being ignored was that we werent doing anything to draw attention to ourselves. We were handling it on our own.
Some will be quick to find fault in the way rescue operations were handled, but the fact of the matter is that the catastrophe could not have been prevented and it is simply ignorant beyond all reason to suggest otherwise. It is a flood. It was caused by rain. You can try to find a face to stick this tragedy to, but youll be wrong.
Parts of Nashville that could never even conceivably be underwater were underwater. Some of them still are. Opry Mills and the Opryland Hotel are, for all intents and purposes, destroyed. People died sitting in standstill traffic on the Interstate. We saw boats going down West End. And, of course, we all saw the surreal image of the portable building from Lighthouse Christian floating into traffic and being destroyed when cars were knocked into it. Im still having trouble comprehending all of it.
And yet
life will go on. Well go back to work, to school, to our lives
and well carry on. In a little over a month, Ill be on this website talking about the draft. In October, well be discussing the new Predators season with nary a thought of these past few days. But in a way, they changed everyone in this town. We now know that that it can happen to us
but also know that we can handle it.
Because we are Nashville.
L. S. In Nashville
Knowing Wiki, they probably white-washed the crime that befell Houston when they took in the refugees.
I’ve heard it said by many Houstonians that they regretted their kindness after the refugees hit and began to rape, rob, hijarck cars and destroy in general.
Many are still there living off Houston’s wefare system.
http://www.city-journal.org/html/eon2006-01-04ng.html
Please dont forget 52 counties were hard hit not only by the flooding but by 13 small twisters. Millington, TN was the city in Shelby Co hit the worse, when the Big Creek Levy broke flooding the Navy base and Navy housing. Along with the Shady Oaks Trailer Court 300+ units were under 7-8 feet of water. And our governor nowhere to be seen in West Tennessee. Just saw the first FEMA agent on the news 3 tonight 7 days later. We look like a war zone. And what little coverage is of Nashville, on CNN, not FNC.
Gail Honadle
Millington, Flooding photos & video
http://www.wmctv.com/Global/category.asp?C=186748
Millington, TN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VrIVHym7PQ
For those with Face Book accounts Photos of the Navy Base in Millington.
http://www.facebook.com/NSAMidSouth
Rail Bridges Out Between Memphis & Nashville
http://www.wreg.com/news/wreg-rail-bridges-out,0,4332240.story
Dyersburg flooding photos
http://www.wreg.com/news/wreg-water-recedes-dyersburg,0,430243.story
http://www.wreg.com/videobeta/?watchId=d58798dc-7f37-4842-aab5-88018dbbb79e
http://www.commercialappeal.com/photos/galleries/2010/may/05/dyersburg-flooding/
Hickman CO
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rzp-DHQLQA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORsSPTumm9I
Dyer Co Dyersburg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBr297p-5Vk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5elxGUYvmQ8
Sumner Co
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShYDrYXs6K0
Clarksville
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gG_usIjjGfY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nk7t8OYyB24
West Tennessee
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIQEQSfYxKc
Jackson, TN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blX4URAWskQ&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niwnoAHcl-U&feature=related
Rebel Cove
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPh0vVoAYek&feature=related
Humboldt, TN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPJZDrU1S_w&feature=related
NG responds to AR & TN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BkKa9NoTNg
You Tube videos of the flooding across TN and 1 from MS.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXKdcg7jMIQ&NR=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VrIVHym7PQ&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcqKgaDLgDM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJ-l5ZKKwmw&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5gYhLKwSp4&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tU4pSDc9Ig
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2ZMFDSocAY&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKhIuQoRNR4&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bywotLxMGuY&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hN3pgF-24M0&feature=related
NO one but local TV news, limited in scope covered the damage in AR and MS that happened at the same time. Twisters and flash flooding and deaths.
From State Rep Tony Shipley
I was so touched by Rep Phillip Johnson’s (District 78) near tearful report of his districts dire situation. His wonderful story of how Tennesseans, just plain folks in bass boats worked to rescue their neighbors, serves to remind all os us, black, white, brown, green, yellow, pink and purple...no matter....WE ARE TENNESSEE! Thursday, members were comparing notes... See More and asking if there was anything that any district needed. No one offered their county EMS or Rescue...just their willingness to step into the gap and organize moms and dads, neighbors and business associates into a temporary volunteer force. My admiration goes out to Rep Phillip Johnson for helping coordinate his rural counties rescue response! Well done Rep Johnson. We done Tennessee!
*They will start mouthing nonsense about how being president is a hard job. The president cannot be in a million places at once. While immediately going to Tennessee might be good symbolic policy, it might not be smart from a logistical standpoint.*
Hmmmm. Let’s take a trip down memory lane, shall we? It’s 2007, north San Diego and south Escondido have been ravaged by fire. President Bush surveyed the damage from the sky, then traveled to the devastated neighborhoods in Rancho Bernardo. He spoke with residents, promised to replace a ball autographed by Nolan Ryan, and hugged those who had nothing left. He took the time to let people know that, despite all of the other things going on in the country and around the world, their grief and fear and pain mattered to him. Even those of us who didn’t lose our houses were thankful for his visit to our little corner of the U.S. (despite the traffic mess his visit created...). It’s really that simple and the moron currently inhabiting the White House can’t even be bothered to pretend.
He attended a “ Whitey is the Devil “ church for over 20 years. That proves it.
We took in many in Pensacola when I lived there (now near Houston) and they were crooks of one sort or another and being armed in town was the only way to go.
I'm so f'n tired of hearing of N.O. Katrina 'victims'.
I’m so f’n tired of hearing of N.O. Katrina ‘victims’.
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You and me both, FRiend.
Take Galveston and the area (including the small town of San Leon, Tx which was practically wiped off the map)
by hurricane Ike recently. You didn’t hear about looting and you didn’t hear about them sitting around and whinning and wanting the government to support them to infinity.
Those people got together and worked hard to restore their communities.
.
You don’t hear whining from Mississippi, Alabama, or Florida ether.
And believe it or not, the storm impacted those states as well.
The worst part of the storm was dealing with the New Orleans human trash. OMG what scum.
That’s right. No others behaved as badly as the New Orleans
people.
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