On TWC, they just showed a report by some reporterette from ABC. She was reporting from Beaumont, showing just regular damage. She said Rita was far less destructive than Katrina. God, I hate these liars. They just show what they want to show, make false blanket statements like that, and the sheeple get a totally distorted impression of what really happened.
No doubt there is extensive flooding and damage along the Southwest Louisiana and extreme East Texas coasts. No doubt there is wind damage (some of it extensive) up to 75 miles inland from the coast.
But there's also no doubt in my mind that Rita was far less destructive than Katrina. Not many people live within a few miles of the coastline there. It might not be good news for them - but the economic damage and human toll from Rita will not even be 1/5th of Katrina's. Those are the facts.
Here are some other facts: -Cameron Parish isn't as impoverished as some posters indicated. According to the
census bureau, the parish's poverty rate is about the same as the U.S. rate. Per capita and median incomes may be lower than the national average, but the cost of living down there is probably much lower than in the big cities. And almost
25% of the homes in Cameron Parish are vacation homes.