Things I Have Noticed

October 2, 2005 | Mariann Evans

[SpringheelJack]

Don't make these cheap political points. The main difference between Texas and Louisiana is that Texas suffered only minor exposure to the hurricane, while Louisiana got an entire city swamped.

Nobody came out of Katrina looking too pretty, and your trawling for votes off of it while damage crews are still scooping bodies out of the mud sure doesn't break the mold.

[Parawan]

I am under the impression that several local officials, the mayor of Houston for instance, are Democrats. The Texas emergency response even with all it's problems did seem to be more effective than that of our neighbor to the East.
Mississippi had massive hurricane damage and a Republican administration, how did they do with evacuation and after storm response.

[Raycpa]

I noticed that both of these monster hurricanes were females.

Coincidence?

I don't think so.

[alnick]

Louisiana: Residents wait for government to protect and evacuate them.

The vast majority of Louisiana residents who were in the way of Katrina evacuated, and we didn't even wait for the government to tell us to do it. The evacuation went pretty smoothly too.

[alnick]

Louisiana got an entire city swamped.

Though the media has focused on only one city, much more than that was devestated in Louisiana. At least four other parishes (counties) were severely damaged. Everyone who lived in St. Bernard parish lost everything. It was that bad. If you lived there, you lost your house. The media has all but ignored the other locations which were devestated by Katrina.

[RightOnline]

Oh get over yourself. The poster is dead-on right. Show me one point in this post that isn't accurate.

Oh......and if you want to talk about "cheap political points", hang onto your hat........

[gooleyman]

While I agree with the premise that Democrat rule is less desirable than Republican rule, some of these are a bit of a stretch. For instance: I don't think there was widespread release of prisoners. I remember seeing one prison with its prisoners on an exit ramp of a freeway to get them out of the flood waters. They had armed guards on them to keep them from getting away.

I don't care for Louisiana's politicians, but they had weathered other Hurricanes close to this magnitude. It's the flooding that made this one the worst in history. They deserve all the blame they warrant, but to stretch like this article does in some instances, it a bit much.

Texas erred on the side of caution because they saw what happened in Louisiana a few weeks earlier. They probably panicked a little more than they needed to because they didn't saw what the Louisianna politicians went through.

[Cvengr]

I've also noticed Texans eat beef brisket smoked for 8 hrs, while Louisianans eat French food made from bottom feeders (catfish and crawdad etouffee) in cream sauce. (I like both, but still just an observation)

[gooleyman]

I noticed that both of these monster hurricanes were females.

Coincidence?

I don't think so.

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For the longest, they only gave them female names. Certainly not a coincidence. I saw a Blondie cartoon in which one of the kids asked why hurricanes had only female names and Dagwood said if they named them after men they would have to call them "himicanes". Har Har.

Of course Ivan was no slouch. Had I not changed my plans, I would have been close to his path.

[SpringheelJack]

How about the whole premise, which is ass-backwards? Texas went relatively unscathed, while Louisiana took the full blow. Explains what happened a hell of a lot better than the various officials' parties. This thread is just a hackjob.

[gooleyman]

OOPS. I meant to say "they panicked more because they saw what happened to the Louisiana politicians."

(Something told me to read it one more time. I should have listened. Haste makes waiste...that's why mine is so big.)

[Smokin' Joe]

Louisiana: Residents wait for government to protect and evacuate them.

Maybe in New Orleans, but not SW Louisiana. They were dumping the boats out and going and getting their neighbors.

In most major cities, the goobermint takes care of a lot of people (10% in NOLA)--the rest got out.

Out in the sticks, you take care of your own and your neighbors, because no one else is around to do it for you.

This is a rural/urban thing as much as anything else, and even then, generalizations can come back and swat you. But city folks like living where there are abundant services, country folks provide their own every day.

[chgomac]

4. Texas: Command and control remains in place to preserve order.

Louisiana: Command and control collapses allowing lawlessness.

# 4 was a key factor in taking a bad natural disaster to the worst case possible! We know now that the reports of multiple murders & rapes were unconfirmed rumors....but when the mayor and police chief were the rumor mongers on Oprah, they stopped everyone who should have been in New Orleans rescuing & helping those first days.

[OldEagle]

What did you notice about Mississippi?

[Wonder Warthog]

"The Texas emergency response even with all it's problems did seem to be more effective than that of our neighbor to the East."

With ONE very glaring exception. Texas had no "contraflow" plan in place to make all lanes of Interstate highway AWAY from the coast "one-way-only"---hence the massive traffic jams .

Louisiana DID have and implement such a plan, and the evacuation of those with personal transport went MUCH more smoothly.

[raybbr]

Things I have noticed while watching media coverage of the recent hurricanes.

One thing I noticed is that, like the mainstream media, you have completely left out Mississippi in your coverage. The hurricanes did not stop at Louisiana and Texas. There was damage all along the path of those two and yet like the media and the partisan politicians you have decided to pit Texas (GW's home state) against Louisiana (dem rule).

Sorry, but this thread mirrors the mainstream coverage it doesn't expose it.

[tuvals]

Can you say DISASTER and EVACUATION PLAN. Louisiana leaders couldn't say it nor execute it. Nuff said... They are awarded the infamous BOZO prize for lack of leadership.

[No Surrender No Retreat]

Morning SHJ,
Open your eyes and see the reality of what Deacon posted. Please remove your DNC hoodwink and see the truth of the matter."Great leadership versus Poor leadership at the local level."

In regards to hurricanes any municipality, county, or state goverment should excute their emergency plans in expecting the worst, but hoping for the best outcome.

Deacon was not trawling for votes, only deliniating common sense. It seems you have little, due to your excuse making for the illiterate/failed/loser local government in La.

Good Day,
NSNR-CSAOTL

[DoctorMichael]

"..........Don't make these cheap political points............"

Huh? Considering the immediate and monumental heaping of guilt, responsibility and blame on President Bush for the incompetence of the local officials BY those very same local officials (and their accomplices in the MSM), these points NEED to be made [degree of damage nowithstanding] and reinforced.