HERE: No panic, no looting, no lack of cooperation at local or state or federal level. No thought of racism. Only incredible loss with lots of people needing help, denied that by partisan attacks on the government agencies who were there to help.
By the way, H. Barbour, the Governor, did personally fire up the Gulf Coast with his warning of THIRTY FOOT storm surge. No one wanted to believe him, but much of the Coast left. Barbour helped save a lot of lives. I don’t think anyone could– or wanted– to believe how bad Katrina would maul (not New Orleans) but Mississippi. (Hey, we had lived through Camille!)
I have on file a post-hurricane story from the NWS claiming they warned everyone. Not so. They and the govt agencies as a whole simply threw out verbiage. NWS didn’t accurately forecast the path of the hurricane. No one here REALLY knew where the storm would strike until just HOURS before. AND worse for non Coastal Mississippi was the MISSED CALL of the eye windspeeds. Those speeds were supposed to die shortly after landfall. Instead they persisted long enough to ruin Southern Mississippi, in addition to the damage on the Coast. NOT FORECASTED at all, or told too late to matter.
Nature was just that big. The politicization that occurred afterwards sickened many survivors. We needed help. Instead we got despicable hurricane circus put on by media firestorm.
Who did come through were the churches and citizen volunteers–unfazed by the political scum. Those groups were there first. And are still on the Coast helping. The Hurricane zone survivors can never completely thank those average, real Americans from Vermont to Oregon. Their selflessness, and the courage of the survivors, was the real Katrina story. THE MSM never told that. America is good and great.

I appreciate the compliment Kevin, always nice to hear.

I’m going to use this post as a reference whenever I get into a conversation with anyone over the whole Katrina disaster (with proper citation of course!). Thank you.