I remember a thread about the school fight...
It is amazing for a small town gal like me to imagine that housing for that many can be found as quickly as it was.
Houston is an amazing place! Hot, humid, buggy, takes up a large....really large land mass.
I was raised in Houston and I have a love/hate relationship with it. When I was growing up the people were wonderful and there was so much for a child to do. Back then most people considered Houston as redneck central but school children were taken to the Houston Symphony several times a year. I remember going to the opera too. I'm old enough to have gone to baseball games at Colt 45 stadium before the Astrodome was built. Now the Astrodome is no longer used for baseball.
On the other hand there was always something strange about wearing shorts on Christmas Day. I live in Oklahoma now and I like having seasons. I don't miss the traffic. I don't miss it taking an hour and more to get across town when traffic was running smoothly.
What we have witnessed with Katrina is a massive failure of LEADERSHIP. Louisiana has had the same opportunity as every other state to plan and prepare for this type of event. Unfortunately, many emergency management positions go to untrained political appointees who quite frankly dont know which end of the fire truck the water comes out of, much less what the capability of their response agencies are. They see big federal bucks and nothing more. Of course the folks in the trenches (first responders) can see this and the morale of the services is affected as you would expect. Why else would so many of the NO police and firefighters desert their duties.
As to the race-baiters, media whores and liberals who are blatantly using this situation for political gain I have nothing but contempt for them. Hopefully the majority of America will see them for what they are and they will be relegated to the dust bin of history.