Which was a bigger tragedy?

[Lestat]

Great thread and interesting discussion. So much more profound than the average C&C thread. Lestat brings up good points yet "Ludendorf" ? does also.

9/11 was definetely the bigger tragedy overall, but Hurricane Katrina was perhaps dealt with less sucessfully, making it's after-effects more tragic than the after-effects of 911.

how was 9/11 a bigger tradegy overall? It involved far less people. More aid came in.

Katrina affected more than 10 times more people, caused far more damage, a lot of it permanent. People died very slow deaths due to running out of medications, food, and clean water. People are still struggling to get back on their feet today.

If I had to die in either, I'd choose 9/11 either day.

If I had to lose a loved one in one of the two, I'd choose 9/11 either day.

Imagine going back to your home months after the katrina flood and finding your dead mom under the refridgerator?

 

[perkele]

 

[anthrax]

9/11 because it lead to many many more victims (the WTC victims all the victims of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars)

and because, 5 years from 9/11 we are still paying the consequences (war on terror)

 

[ItalianMuscle27]

The 9/11 attacks fo sure.. Both were terrible, but you cant blame mother nature.. She cant be predicted!

 

[hanselthecaretaker]

Put it this way: Katrina was more devastating, but 9/11 was a bigger tragedy. It showed the error of humans and the results of unnecessary conflict. Natural forces, however, are so far inevitably beyond people's control. Both are sad.

 

[FNBS]

not even close 911 was a tragedy... katrina was like weeding out the few

 

[hanselthecaretaker]

both were bad, no question.

but the 9/11 got so much support. The average "victim" got a couple million.

The average victim in new orleans doesn't live there anymore and is basically as poor as before.

Where's your support for that statement?

 

[Lestat]

The 9/11 attacks fo sure.. Both were terrible, but you cant blame mother nature.. She cant be predicted!

lmao. typical response.

you can't blame mother nature?

how about the levy engineers?

 

[Lestat]

Where's your support for that statement?

"To date, the average payout from the fund has been $1.8 million, with the highest award, about $7.9 million, going to one of the badly injured victims who survived."

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/01/16/national/main593715.shtml

Tell me which katrina victims were compensated in the millions, let alone nearly 8 million?

People need to wake the fuck man. There was a SCIENTOLOGY center in NEW YORK CITY that got 300,000.00 alone, THAT is the fucking tradegy.

Israel went into Lebanon and fucked shit up and Hezbolah, a terrorist group handed out cash to those people who lost their homes so they could rebuild.

What do we do for katrina? shitty ATM cards. Is that going to rebuild a home?

 

[Lestat]

not even close 911 was a tragedy... katrina was like weeding out the few

people like you need to be weeded out for good.