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Emcee:  Rande Is Type:  Moderated
Hurricane's Katrina, Rita and Wilma represent the largest natural disasters in America's history. It will take many years to recover from the 2005 storm season. The story continues to unfold before our eyes. Other natural disasters are open to discussion here, with respect to disseminating or interpreting information and the effectiveness of respective relief efforts.

Katrina rescue efforts were poorly planned, under equipped and excruciatingly slow. Many of us get frustrated by what we see and hear. This thread is used for venting frustrations and for posting and discussing stories the mass media will not touch.

Throughout Katrina relief, we heard goofy excuses from both sides of the political fence. This thread was started just after Katrina hit and before the media caught wind that government was merely passing on ridiculous excuses for poor performance. Our smart and concientious readers were quick to call Washington, demanding immediate action be taken at the Convention Center, etc. Others here are active in relief efforts and not just talkers.

Inaction, ineptitude, insufficiency, cronyism, nepotism, racism, corruption, disruption, recession, depression, catastrophe, bureaucracy, democracy, politics and lunatics . . . These are the sort of topics that continually come up during the catastrophes discussed on this thread.

Both sides of every view is welcome. But take your partisanship to the political threads. Ideally, we seek the truth. . .or at least the part of it that we can stomach. As my other threads, all posters are to be respected at all times, regardless of their opinions.

As these nightmares unfold. . . please, share with us what is on your mind.

Best wishes,
Rande Is
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1118Louisianans Give Bush Higher Marks Than Obama for Crisis Response Bruce Drake CoPeter Dierks-8/31/2010
1117New Orleans Levees Nearly Ready, but Mistrusted By JOHN SCHWARTZ Published: AugTimF-8/24/2010
1116Obama Failed to Lead During Oil Spill by Elisabeth Meinecke 08/09/2010 SenPeter Dierks-8/9/2010
1115New Orleans Is On a Tear Inspired by the Saints' winning season, the city hPeter Dierks-12/13/2009
1114Cajun Comeback: Dining in New Orleans mensjournal.comTimF-1/30/2009
1113Really, especially seeing that it's so attractive to those pesky Formosan sTom Clarke-10/14/2008
1112 Interesting. I suppose any future levees should not be made from bagasse.TimF-10/14/2008
1111Did Termites Help Katrina Destroy New Orleans Floodwalls? New research presenteTom Clarke-10/14/2008
1110marginalrevolution.comTimF-9/3/2008
1109 The Levees in and around NO, are supposedly back to the pre hurricane level. TimF-6/26/2008
1108Where does all that middle of the country flood water end up? Isn't there aR2O-6/26/2008
1107That was a nice find. I copied the article to the other Hurricane subject.Peter Dierks-3/28/2008
1106Making Hurricane Response More Effective Lessons from the Private Sector and theTimF-3/21/2008
1105Louisiana elects a reform governor. What's next? Monday, October 22, 2007 Peter Dierks-10/22/2007
1104The Alligators Want Their Cut A business-friendly tax code would go a long way iTimF-10/19/2007
1103The Myths of Hurricane Katrina Myth number one: A lack of federal money DanielTimF-8/30/2007
1102Two years after Katrina, New Orleans desperately needs law and order. BY NICOLPeter Dierks-8/29/2007
1101Slow recovery goes on in crime-weary New Orleans warrants.bnpparibas.com By Jef~digs-8/28/2007
1100Disaster tours remain popular in New Orleans msnbc.msn.com~digs-8/11/2007
1099Thousands Suspected of Katrina Fraud biz.yahoo.com <i>Sunday April 1, 10:~digs-4/2/2007
1098It's safer to go to Iraqlongnshort-1/13/2007
1097New Orleans fears slayings will impact tourism Officials scramble, urge visitors~digs-1/13/2007
1096YAWN, typical lib racistlongnshort-1/7/2007
1095nope. that you'd be much more willing to be critical of them. enough, I am bxcr600-1/7/2007
1094"they are mostly black." what do you mean by that ?? that they couldnlongnshort-1/7/2007
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