Which was a bigger tragedy?

[Mr. dB]

The Gulf Coast after Katrina wasn't coined the Worst Natural disaster in known
History because it was just "Sort a bad".

"Worst Natural disaster in known History"???????

Please. The tsunami was worse. Hundreds of thousands died.

Or Krakatoa.

 

[Frisky]

Katrina certainly had a direct affect on more people's lives, and left a much larger mess to be cleaned up, but what was the death toll? 3000+ people died on the spot at the WTC, Pentagon, and Pennsylvania.

Why do they need to be ranked? Can't we just say that they both sucked?

As for the "Katrina could have been prevented" suggestion, tell that to the people of the Mississippi and Alabama Gulf Coast.

When I say katrina, I am talking about the storm as a whole, not just NO and LA area. Many of lives, homes were lost. These people lost EVERYTHING... YOU HEAR ME... EVERYTHING. Baby books, clothes, memories, homes, their children their siblings... mothers, fathers, They had not a damn thing to go back home to .. nothing!

here is a recent on the toll of childeren that died

Questions still remain over how many people died after Hurricane Katrina as well as the whereabouts of all of the evacuees. The official death toll stands at about 1,300 but thousands of people are still reported missing. Two weeks ago USA Today reported the whereabouts of 6,600 people reported missing have not been determined. And this past weekend Newsday reported the missing includes 1,300 children.

Family's were seperated, kids taken to one city and mother to another and father to another... There were people posting up flyers to find their family or their child because when the buses came they seperated them that way. Some ended up in Texas, some in Ok, some in SC, some in NC... all the way up to the far north... Imagine not knowing where your child is, where your mother is.. being stuck in a facility with no parents, or not knowing if your child is alive or dead by now... (due to the violence at the cajun dome) For one second imagine that. They should have left, yes... but if you have ever been to the over crowed suburbs of NO, you will see that If everyone (even if that were possible ) try to evacuate at one time it would still have been a cluster fuck.

It tears at the deepest of my core for anyone to say that these children deserved dying because they had no means to evacuate. The city, the Governor, the Mayor... did not force the issue. Most in the 9th ward had no means of leaving, and if you paid much attention, alot were stranded on the highway and overpasses trying to walk their way to safe grounds. These people wanted out, just didn't have transportation that they were promised.

Buses were sitting there and no one picking up those whom wanted to leave.

 

[Frisky]

"Worst Natural disaster in known History"???????

Please. The tsunami was worse. Hundreds of thousands died.

Or Krakatoa.

IN AMERICA

 

[The Shadow]

"choose carefully"

LOL - like we should be "scared" to vote

 

[jnevin]

"choose carefully"

LOL - like we should be "scared" to vote

It will go on your permanent record... record... record...

 

[Mr. dB]

IN AMERICA

It doesn't say that on the poll, the introductory message, or in the message I was replying to.

 

[Austin316]

9/11 by far, people in NO had time to get out, they at least had a chance, a lot of what could of been avoided was not because of stupidity...

 

[Y_lifter]

"Worst Natural disaster in known History"???????

Please. The tsunami was worse. Hundreds of thousands died.

Or Krakatoa.

My bad you tard.. US history

 

[Frisky]

http://jwbartlett.com/katrina/JWB.katrina.245.JPG

Imagine your home in this subdivision... and then going back and finding your parent, or grandmother, or sibling.. whom couldn't leave but was promised that someone would come and evacuate them... dead...

 

[Frisky]

9/11 by far, people in NO had time to get out, they at least had a chance, a lot of what could of been avoided was not because of stupidity...

stupidity... or ...... really... I'd say most were the fact of poverty. If you don't have transportation how the hell do you evacuate? Just because you are poor does that make your life less valuable?