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50% under sea level? 90% of the City had standing toxic water.
So sad,
No.
Get people on the ground.
I can’t imagine the trauma everyone involved is dealing with. God Bless you 🙏🏽
…all this because they didn’t want to pay for buses to get people out safely..
I live in an area in Australia prone to bad flooding. We had a particularly bad one in 2023.
So my mind is reeling at the insane lack of organisation, and genuinely poor advice, from the people in charge here. The part where they make the people leave their relatively safe homes IN the dangerous dirty water is infuriating.
Proper protocol would be to check if they’re in any danger; if not, take record of who they are and where they are for a supply drop later. If so, send out a boat to get them to safety. We have a saying we all know from childhood “If it’s flooded, forget it”. Don’t drive, don’t walk – flood water is so dangerous.
Whoever was making these calls wasn’t taking anything into consideration and should not have been in charge
There were busses that were bringing people to other cities. Not everyone was able to leave with their family. This was an emergency situation: life or death. Some people chose to stay and not leave. The city of New Orleans was flooding so fast that they couldn’t get help fast enough. The mayor at the time was also to blame because he lied about how bad it was.
Save Our St. Bernard
St Bernard parish was hit first; it wasn’t until the levies broke that it affected Orleans parish. Nobody talks about how bad it was in Arabi and Chalmete.
I wonder how NO is doing today? I was 25 at the time. I had seen many disasters on the news but never seen anything like this in the U.S. Felt sorry for them.
I left Mississippi about a couple months before Katrina. I could never imagine what my ppl went through!
26:31 this image to me is the craziest part because on one side of the levee is perfectly fine and the other side is DEVASTATED
22:17 Reporters are the worst. There needs to be a law if they report FALSE and inaccurate information they should be charged and jailed for putting lives at risk.