I get the feeling that the folks with low IQs stayed behind, save for the welfarists who followed government cheese, and those with an IQ over 110 found a reason to move on -an act of God good and hard. I do not expect a huge infusion of IQ points into the Katrina devastation anytime soon.
An act of God good and hard?
Your post is really, really sad.
You should be ashamed of having posted this.
“I do not expect a huge infusion of IQ points into the Katrina devastation anytime soon.”
I would have thought that after Biloxi (and others) were flattened in 1969. But the fools came back and built. They’ll do it again and be stunned again when the next monster hurricane hits. And then they’ll want me to help pay through FEMA assistance and higher premiums on my insurance.
Having family who live there, and planning to move there soon, myself, I find your comments disgusting. Katrina was ONE storm, and was the worst in 40 years in that area. Yes, it was devastating, and yes, many families have not moved back, but that does not mean that those who stayed or those who are coming back are somehow mentally deficient.
The MS Gulf Coast is a beautiful place, and a nice place to live. It will return to an even better situation than it was before, just as it did after Camille, which caused quite a bit of destruction herself in 1969.
By your estimation of people living in areas that could conceivably be devastated by bad weather, do you consider all the residents of Oklahoma to be 'welfarists' or of diminished IQ because they continue to rebuild each time after tornadoes destroy buildings and homes? That area is the most tornado ravaged in the country, yet folks continue to live there and move there from other places. They must assess the risks and decide to play them, the same as the folks along the Gulf Coast, or for that matter, ANY area along the Gulf or East Coast, since there is almost no place along those coasts that has not, at one point, been destroyed or severely damaged by a hurricane.
Weather happens, and we deal with it. Sometimes it's worse than others. The people on the MS Gulf Coast are extremely grateful to the thousands of volunteers who gave up time, vacations, etc, to travel there and live in difficult conditions in order to help clear the destruction. My older sister lost her home, and she had folks who would just show up and help her clear sand off the slab and, every now and then, find little things she thought she'd lost in the storm. A group showed up at my older brother's house one Saturday morning where he, his wife, two of my sisters and their husbands were removing soggy sheetrock. They jumped out, and proceeded to make short work of that job, and offered to come back when he was installing the new wallboard.
At that point, basic services had not returned for many places, and some groups who wanted to travel to MS and LA couldn't do so because there were no places for them to stay, or facilities for them to be fed. Mr. Porter's 'Katrina Kitchen' was a Godsend to them., and to the residents who had returned to see what they could salvage from their homes. Now, the conditions have changed. There are more places for volunteers to be housed, and folks to make sure they are fed. That's probably why Mr. Porter has been asked to close his food operation. Folks living there now have the means to prepare their food. He might think about taking some time off, and preparing to help a different area of the country that may need him more in the near future.