Assumptions about Katrina victims may be incorrect, data reveal

Knight Ridder Newspapers ^ | Dec. 29, 2005 | JOHN SIMERMAN, DWIGHT OTT AND TED MELLNIK

[Gribbles141]

George Bush hates old people.

[neodad]

So the common wisdom about Katrina is wrong? I'm shocked! I think Rove should be fired for his failure to properly execute his Anti-African American campaign.

[caryatid]

 

Anyone who has been following the Katrina posts on FRee Republic has been aware of this "news" all along.

 

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[thoughtomator]

Turns out it was really Dick Cheney with the weather machine.

[TexasCajun]

Hey! You racist bigots in the Congressional Black Caucus take note!

All that whining and blaming Whitey and now the fact come out and you look like the idiots you are.

[Sunnyflorida]

I was listening to the Rush show today when a guy called in from NOLA to complain about everybody complaining that people in NOLA complain too much. I am one of those that are tired of these people complaining. We got WIPED_OUT in Punta Gorda last year -- well the business district is basically a vacant lot and it is NOT EVEN begun to come back in a meaningful way. Most people here think the people in NOLA are somewhere between funny and pathetic thinking it will take less than a couple of generations to get NOLA "back." In other words, it is a mess and will be for a long, long, long time, and the only one that can make it better can only bed found by looking in the mirror.

Second if you live by the sea and do not from time to time EXPECT it to reach up and grab you, you are a fool.

I love living by the sea. But I know my hold is tenuous and fleeting. Everyday here is great, but when Charley hit most well adjusted people said, "well we dodge a bullet for a long time and it could be worse, we could be DEAD."

I wonder how the call ended. I had to jump into a meeting.

[caryatid]

All that whining and blaming Whitey and now the fact come out and you look like the idiots you are.

But .... it could have been true ... and that is all that matters. Don't let the truth and facts get in the way of what you want to believe.

[REPANDPROUDOFIT]

Louisiana state officials have released no comprehensive list of the dead

Why the #@*% can't they at least release a list of the dead - not names, just particulars? Sheeesh! They must be doctoring it to fit their "agenda". The stupidity of it all makes me sick.

[REPANDPROUDOFIT]

George Bush hates old people.

LOL!

[Enchante]

Obviously the genocidal Bush/Cheney plot against black people failed miserably..... more evidence of WH incompetence, they couldn't even kill all the people they were trying so hard to kill..... /sarcasm

[MajorityOfOne]

You mean... Kanye West and Chris Rock were wrong!?!? Unthinkable!

[Gordongekko909]

Anyone who has been following the Katrina posts on FRee Republic has been aware of this "news" all along.

Totally. This showed up in the Houston Chronicle months ago.

[WasDougsLamb]

----True, alot of us here knew it a long time ago. The race baiting bigots wouldn't know the truth if it came up and bit them on the a**.

[Gordongekko909]

I'm from New Orleans, and I still can't believe that there's a city named Punta Gorda.

[Loyal Buckeye]

...some widely reported assumptions...

Would those assumptions also be known as news reports?

[Sunnyflorida]

Well after Charley came through there is not much of the old historic city left. We are getting our share of condos (low rise) and the demolition is about 60% done. Only a very few comercial buildings are going up. What was left standing has tripled in price. I say 5-10 years to get things close to back in order.

It will take generations to rebuild down there. Hopefully people will be smart and see what the Dutch did and not rely on levees. They just don't work.

I was reading a different thread on NOLA resturants and I do not want to start a fight but there are great resturants in lots of places.

There was this place in Islamorada called Ziggy's (official name the Conch). We loved the place. I never took it for granted that it would be there next time I went back. It made the place more special to savor every visit. Sure enough the owner died; his son took over; it was still great; then he got hit by a car chasing his mom's d+mn dog out on to US 1. The place is gone but not forgotten. Something to think about.

Those of us that live by the sea have to assume that sooner or later it will be gone. We made it through Charley (direct hit) with just major damage but rebuilding. Not sure about the next one. Buy insurance and savor the moments because it is not going to last.

We got some good short term help for food and water for the month or so it took to get power. but the only real resource for rebuilding stares at me in the mirror (with help from neighbors). That's it. No guv-ment. And that's fine.

[jamaly]

I'm from New Orleans, and I still can't believe that there's a city named Punta Gorda.

Now that tickled my funny bone.

[libstripper]

Lack of transportation was assumed to be a key reason that many people stayed behind and died, but at many addresses where the dead were found, their cars remained in their driveways, flood-ruined symbols of fatal miscalculation.

Many of us noted this fact while Katrina was going on and said a lot of NO residents were responsible for their own plight because they did not use their own perfectly functional cars to escape when they could. A number of enablers of disfunctionality and dependency criticized us for our alleged insensitivity to the "poor who did not have their own transportation." Now who's right???

[BluStaCon]

I'm sure this information will be reported in the mainstream media soon. I trust they would like to dispel some of the lies they helped create. I have absolute faith in... oh man... I can't keep it up.. HAHAHAHAHA