[AmericaUnited]

I watched some of the news yesterday for the first time as what stuck me was the HUGE difference in how the leadership and people of New York reponded to 911, and how the leadership and people of New Orleans responded to Katrina. New Yorkers were tough, determined, resolved, didn't loot, helped others, didn't complain, whine, sit around like helpless babies, expecting 'gubmint' to do everything...

Wow! What a very revealing difference!

[WritableSpace]

Those situations are completely without comparison, NY city itself wasn't turned into a lake.

[CeDex]

"New Yorkers were tough, determined, resolved, didn't loot, helped others, didn't complain, whine, sit around like helpless babies, expecting 'gubmint' to do everything..."

What a false, ludicris analogy/comparison. All of Manhattan was NOT under ten feet of water. Had it been, it would have been a very different story.

And your tone towards fellow Americans is sickening...

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

I think it all comes down to the fact that 911 was cut and dried. You either got out of the towers and away from them - and were in civilization with (for example) people giving more blood than the situation called for - or you were dead.

By comparison New Atlantis is a slow-motion catastrophe. Scores of thousands of people are isolated and getting hungry and thirsty - and are basically living in a swamp, or worse. There you are within walking distance of where your own house used to be, and you see people dying of want on the streets. I'm confident that if you were in those conditions you'd be a little out of sorts yourself.

[Voteamerica]

The New Yorkers didn't run out of food and water. They didn't have to walk through open sewage to get anywhere. They didn't watch their children die before their eyes. There was communication, help was immediate. Help still hasn't arrived in New Orleans.

You believe that if no help arrived in New York for days, there was no electricity anywhere, no method of communication anywhere, no food or sanitation anywhere and the temperature was 100 degrees, things would have stayed calm indefinitely?