Katrina One Year Later (repfanz)

August 29th will mark the one year anniversary of our nations worse storm. Hurricane Katrina ripped through our gulf states causing thousands to be misplaced and homeless. One of the cities hit hard by Katrina was the City of New Orleans. New Orleans like other cities in the gulf region was no different than other city heavily effected. It sustained heavy casualties and had many displaced individuals. But what separated New Orleans from other cities is that, well, for one, PEOPLE GOT THE HELL OUTTA THERE!! Two, most the cities heeded and implemented their emergency procedures for evacuation. That is what separated New Orleans from other cities. The city simply did not implement any of its procedures and assumed every citizens would use common sense and flee the storm. The city made no provisions to evacuate it's elderly and it's poor. The evidence of school buses under water is clear evidence that the city and it's leadership were utterly incompetent.

The next issue that plaqued New Orleans is the behavior of it's own citizens towards one another. Looting of items that were not needed, such as television sets was rampant. Rumors of rapes, murders and robbery ran rampant during the whole ordeal. Thousands of New Orleans citizens crammed into the Superdome, where little children witnessed the death of elderly people.

New Orleans had suffered unneedlessly because of governmental gaffes on all levels. One, as mentioned, the local government did not adequately prepare itself and implement any of the emergency procedures in prepardness of the Hurricane/Flooding. Two, the state government failed to respond and implement adequate evacuation of citizens now stuck in the floods caused by Katrina. It would be later reported that due to "differences" between Mayor Nagin and Gov. Blanco may have been the cause of this huge failure. Three, although FEMA is not a first responder, they failed to adequately provide the President of the dire situation within Louisana. Mike Brown would later become the nation's whipping boy all by himself. While Nagin, who is black and Blanco, who is a woman basically slid off the skillet, free from blame and harsh criticism.

So going on one year after this storm, after "race" was injected into this otherwise heartbreaking event. The question is what's going on?

Houston's Hospitality Taken For Granted:

Once all three government branches got together and coordinated. National Guardsman and Red Cross Volunteers poured in along with the millions of dollars donated by Americans who gave a damn. Neighboring states began to open its doors to receive evacuees who were stranded on roof tops or crammed in the Superdome.

Houston immediately took evacuees in an effort to assist those displaced with jobs, housing and aid. And how did they get repaid? An 18% spike in violent crimes. Houston in effect had picked up New Orleans high crime and its criminals. New Orleans gangs down for a couple of hours declared war on Houston's gangs and continued it's preying on it's own citizens from the same area they were from. Another thing Houston picked up was New Orlean's poor. The same welfare state of mind individuals are now draining Houston's social programs. Illegal aliens are now complaining about the lack of social programs. It seems that the hospitality Houston extended was blind and ungrateful.

Even after one year, Katrina is still alive.