New Orleans SURVIVED Katrina. The City was KILLED by REPUBLICANS!!!

[bvar22]

New Orleans survived the Category 4.5 hurricane quite well.
New Orleans did NOT survive the Republican Party!
The inherent Bigotry, Classism and Greed of Compassionate Conservatism KILLED New Orleans!

Katrina's 145 MPH winds caused some wind damage, the most obvious to the plastic roof coating of the Superdome. Some windows were blown out. Some houses lost shingles. Some trees were uprooted and signs blown down. There was very little structural damage to New Orleans from the winds of Katrina. It is possible that there would have been NO DEATHS in New Orleans from wind damage alone. (It is a little early to state that with absolute certainty, but so far, there has been very little structural wind damage visible in ANY of the pictures. The ROOF Structure of the Superdome is intact.

Katrina's 8-12" of tropical rain was within the capacity of the City's 100 year old pumps and canal system. There was some local flooding of low areas which is common during heavy rains, and was not dangerous. This was verified by the reports from New Orleans immediately after Katrina passed. ALL reports from within New Orleans verified that most of the city WAS NOT FLOODED, and the water level in the flooded areas WAS DROPPING!

There was a serious problem in New Orleans EAST where a levee (scheduled for strengthening but DEFUNDED by Republicans) was breeched and water poured into an area causing people to take refuge in their attics. This was equivalent to the flooding of the SAME area in Hurricane Betsy in 1965. This was serious, but NOT a Death Blow. This local area could have been dealt with immediately after the storm subsided. Rescues would have been staged from the New Orleans side immediately after the storm subsided. Property damage was HIGH for this local area, but few if any deaths would have occurred by this flooding alone. It WAS manageable!

The DEATH BLOW to New Orleans did NOT happen until many hours after Hurricane Katrina had done her worst, and had left the area. The Death Blow to New Orleans was caused by the failure of portion of the 17th St Levee (actually a steel coffer dam wall, not a traditional earth levee) that was INSIDE the Perimeter Levee Protection System that surrounds New Orleans. The Permanent Earth Levee System surrounding New Orleans successfully held the full fury of Katrina!

The portion of the internal levee system on 17thSt that failed was scheduled for upgrading, but WAS DEFUNDED BY THE REPUBLICAN PARTY who believe that a handful of the VERY RICH Republican donors deserve MILLIONS of Dollars, and the millions of common working folk and POOR in New Orleans deserve nothing!

Hurricane Katrina DID NOT KILL New Orleans.
REPUBLICAN GREED, CLASSISM, and BIGOTRY KILLED New Orleans!!!

[FloridaPat]

1. Agree completely. Also, if they had their complete national guard

with helicopters and other machinery, they might have been able to fix the breeches before they go too far gone.

[Neshanic]

2. Yes, they did. They have no problem sleeping either.

[1932]

3. Democrats aren't blameless. But this is the flag Republicans carry

into every battle: racism, greed, survival of the fittest.

[bvar22]

4. I agree.

The Republicans could NOT have done this to America without help from their agents in the Democratic Party.
We KNOW who they are!

[[e-mail]]

7. do they read this board ?

[bvar22]

8. If they don't,

they better start, "cause the times they are a changin!"
:patriot:

[Nothing Without Hope]

5. I agree with you. Now we have to figure out how to channel our horror

and fury into effective action for united, effective, nonviolent positive action to make the changes that must happen. The fact is, whether or not this terrible situation in the hurricane areas is deliberate - and I myself do believe it is - what must be done in the near term is the SAME. Either way, we must channel this fury into well-planned, effective nonviolent actions that will unite and energize the country for
1. aid and resources to the suffering and homeless – everything they need to start their recovery and start healing their trauma as much as can be done
2. organization of how to unite and respond nonviolently and most effectively now and henceforth
3. inspiration of the American public with nonviolent, effective goals to create true change
4. US regime change
5. Joining the world community and moving forward

And yes, I am collecting the ever-lengthening list of evidence for the criminally negligent (at the least) actions of this Administration. They will not succeed in lying their way through this one.
Part of my collection is in this opening post and its comments (now archived):
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4523783

PS: Try not to be too horrified (as I was at first for my vanished post earlier this evening) if this thread disappears soon after it hits the Greatest Page. I am guessing the mods and admins are trying to do what they see as "quieting things down." I will be rewriting my vanished post and I actually think it will be better, though for a while today I was raging about what seemed like suspicious censorship.

[Usrename]

6. May they burn in hell n/t

[many a good man]

9. Helicopters with sandbags diverted

Tuesday the mayor was screaming that he was told helicopters were scheduled to drop giant sandbags to reinforce the levee but somebody else later ordered the choppers to rescue people instead.

This one decision turned out to be fatal for the city of New Orleans.

[north houston dem]

10. scum suckers

may they rot in hell:mad:

[Eloriel]

11. Was it on purpose?Was it on purpose?

ATTN DU RESEARCHERS -- LIHOP/MIHOP evidence stacking up
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=4588088&mesg_id=4588088

[Melodybe]

12. WHY ARE 30,000 STILL IN THE CONFERENCE CENTER!?!?!

[Hippo_Tron]

13. My personal opinion is that it wasn't on purpose, BUT...

Because they were poor people, they didn't make any special effort to deal with the problem. Basically, Bushco wasn't losing any sleep trying to find a plan to help all of those people at the convention center. Had they been wealthy campaign contributors, that would not have been the case.

[Hippo_Tron]

14. Self delete n/t