Didn't this guy see two Americas before Katrina?
Say Edwards, how many fingers do you see here? Two? Get your eyes checked. Heh heh heh...
Photographs by Robert Caputo and Tyrone Turner
The Louisiana bayou, hardest working marsh in America, is in big trouble—with dire consequences for residents, the nearby city of New Orleans, and seafood lovers everywhere.
It was a broiling August afternoon in New Orleans, Louisiana, the Big Easy, the City That Care Forgot. Those who ventured outside moved as if they were swimming in tupelo honey. Those inside paid silent homage to the man who invented air-conditioning as they watched TV "storm teams" warn of a hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico. Nothing surprising there: Hurricanes in August are as much a part of life in this town as hangovers on Ash Wednesday.
But the next day the storm gathered steam and drew a bead on the city. As the whirling maelstrom approached the coast, more than a million people evacuated to higher ground. Some 200,000 remained, however—the car-less, the homeless, the aged and infirm, and those die-hard New Orleanians who look for any excuse to throw a party.
The storm hit Breton Sound with the fury of a nuclear warhead, pushing a deadly storm surge into Lake Pontchartrain. The water crept to the top of the massive berm that holds back the lake and then spilled over. Nearly 80 percent of New Orleans lies below sea level—more than eight feet below in places—so the water poured in. A liquid brown wall washed over the brick ranch homes of Gentilly, over the clapboard houses of the Ninth Ward, over the white-columned porches of the Garden District, until it raced through the bars and strip joints on Bourbon Street like the pale rider of the Apocalypse. As it reached 25 feet (eight meters) over parts of the city, people climbed onto roofs to escape it.
Thousands drowned in the murky brew that was soon contaminated by sewage and industrial waste. Thousands more who survived the flood later perished from dehydration and disease as they waited to be rescued. It took two months to pump the city dry, and by then the Big Easy was buried under a blanket of putrid sediment, a million people were homeless, and 50,000 were dead. It was the worst natural disaster in the history of the United States.
When did this calamity happen? It hasn't—yet. But the doomsday scenario is not far-fetched. The Federal Emergency Management Agency lists a hurricane strike on New Orleans as one of the most dire threats to the nation, up there with a large earthquake in California or a terrorist attack on New York City. Even the Red Cross no longer opens hurricane shelters in the city, claiming the risk to its workers is too great.
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The corrupt democrat machine in La. all knew what could happen and failed to protect their citizens..
They should all be going to jail for murder and maleficence in office
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Well, America sees two John Edwardses: the one that hears babies with birth defects from the womb, and the other that supports tearing others in the womb (that can't raise any money for him) limb from limb.
Doesn't Edwards run some bogus Poverty Research Center now? Isn't that on a college campus?
Couldn't he arrange for dorms to be opened up to the unwashed masses belonging to one of the two Americas he sees?
I'm sorry...John *who*?
the next original idea that idiot has will be his first.
Working Class?
mah daddy once ran a mill in New Orleans..
He mentions the Civic Center as a place refygees were told to go. I still have not seen any proof that there were told to go there. And the Superdome did not have that many people in it untill after the storm. The people who did not evacuate kept coming and coming.
People raping babies, looting, shooting at rescuers.
Oh yes, we saw that other America.
"I see stupid people everywhere.." Edwards is one of them!
Well, then we lost a whole bunch of Americas, because there were thousands of them beforehand.
WHAT ABOUT THOSE 300-400 BUSES...THAT JUST SAT IN THE NEW ORLEANS CITY YARDS?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?
Two bad he didn't see or FEEL his wife TWO T*T's for four years.
He might have saved her from her cancer getting golfball size.
You just can't make this stuff up.
Methinks the Democrats are terribly stupid or terribly dishonest.