[Southack]

"From all of the coverage ive seen, people have been trying to get the hell out of NO any way they can."

Odd. The TV coverage that I've seen shows able-bodied adult men who refuse to walk or swim (it's the Deep South in Summer, that water won't freeze you) or boat out...but are either whining for government to come save them or are shooting at government agents and volunteers coming to save them.

What channel are you watching?

[DieselBoy]

Yea, kind of hard to make a long trip with no food or water.

[TheClintons-STILLAnti-American]

"Odd. The TV coverage that I've seen shows able-bodied adult men who refuse to walk or swim (it's the Deep South in Summer, that water won't freeze you) or boat out...but are either whining for government to come save them or are shooting at government agents and volunteers coming to save them.

What channel are you watching?

I don't have anything to add. I just thought your post warranted repeating.

[trubluolyguy]

"...whining for the government to come save them..."



No kidding, frigging walk out. I would have by now and I am disabled. And what is with these 300 lb plus women whining about not eating????

[slightlyovertaxed]

Odd. The TV coverage that I've seen shows able-bodied adult men who refuse to walk or swim (it's the Deep South in Summer, that water won't freeze you) or boat out...but are either whining for government to come save them or are shooting at government agents and volunteers coming to save them.

THANK YOU FOR SAYING THIS.

One of my most strong memories from 9/11 is going through the pictures of the Brooklyn Bridge, the Hudson River Drive, and other major roadways out of the city. They were covered in people, residents and workers alike, who were walking out of the disaster area. The rescues were being saved for those stranded in the rubble, who needed evac to hospitals. Everyone else got the hell out of there. You can't compare Katrina and 9/11; they're totally different in scope and magnitude, but you can compare attitude. People walked 10 or 15 miles that day to get out of the city. Their fellow citizens helped them along the way.

In the Sudan, there was a horrific massacre that left several thousand children homeless and parentless. They marched themselves across a wilderness to Ethiopian refugee camps for hundreds of miles. Thousands died from disease, from attacks by wild animals, from starvation, but another few thousands made it out alive. Why are able-bodied adults in the most well-off nation in the world unable to do what New Yorkers and African orphans can do? What the hell have we done down there?