It has been seven days since Katrina wiped out the Mississippi Coast. New Orleans has been getting the majority of the media coverage, so a lot of people do not know how bad it is on the Coast. Check out this link, look at the pictures:
http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/
These people need as much help and sympathy and media coverage as the people in New Orleans. Why is it not there?
My son-in-law went to D'Iberville, Ms to help his mother and father recover as many pictures, etc from their house as they could. They are both past retirement age, but both have continued to work because they cannot afford to buy their medicines if they don't. Their house is beyond saving. The contents, furniture and appliances, are ruined. They spent the last two days recovering pictures and other mementos of forty years together. Today they went to church. Their faith has not been shaken. They cried and prayed with people they have worshipped with for most of their lives. They will recover. They will not re-build on that lot, but they will re-build.
Other people are suffering. A shelter was evacuated because of an outbreak of suspected dysentery. People are waiting for help. But, they are not sitting there moanin and groaning. They are doing as much as they can to help themselves. They are working on cleaning the limbs and debris from their yards and then helping their neighbors. They are watching out for each other.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/03/AR2005090301680.html
Read the Washington Post link. I am sick of people blasting President Bush. Put the blame on the people who should be blames. Mayor Ray Nagin of New Orleans and Govenor Blanco of Louisiana. They knew before Katrina the status of the levees. They knew they had at least 100,000 citizens who would not be able to leave. If they had a car they most likely had no money for gas. Forget about a motel room for a week or so. Why were those people not given help to leave? The mayor could have stood up like Guilliani of New York and taken control. He could have ordered city buses and gotten private buses and school buses to get people out. What did he do? He said........ya'll leave. This is real. So find a place to go.........He waited till noon on Sunday to let people start entering the Superdome. Did he send help to people who maybe had no way of knowing that they could go there? HE went to Baton Rouge. Now he gets on tv crying and cussing and blaming everyone else because this turned out this way. I think all he is doing now is politicking for the next election.
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Tica, hey, i like your point about the lack of attention given to other areas and lack of acting on the local government's part in N.O. Wanted to let you know there is a setting that you can change where people have to actually type letters that are displayed that stops most of the spam like this. I noticed this on my blog and had already had the setting to only allow comments from registered users. That should illiminate any idiots just wanting to spam you.
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