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In reply to the discussion: DUers post the thing about post Katrina that shocked you the most [View all]uppityperson
(115,677 posts)Those in power were saying all was well at the superdome and media was showing the convention center with all those people without food or water, and those in power had no clue about it. They didn't know people were there. They thought that since the superdome had been evacuated, all was well. "It's under control" by those in power while a couple media people were at the convention center showing those people who were forgotten, unnoticed.
This was only 1 thing, but no one has mentioned it yet that I saw.
The biggest shock for me was how out of control everything was, how fast everything went out of control and for how long. The multitude of people going to help for so long was the reason control was regained.
Not the gvt with their black helicopters flying bodies to the ship, not the national guard suffering in the humid heat trying to do anything they could, not FEMA, not the government reporting but the people who were just involved in saving lives, feeding others, trying to keep them healthy, feeding the pets that were forced to be left behind, cleaning moldy houses, listening to stories stories stories.
The young men hired by Walmart to stay in the MS Walmart when the storm surge came in at 30 feet and all that was left of the building was the frame and roof. The one whose friend was found drowned with a lifevest on in Chalmette who must've gotten his pants leg hooked on something. The couple living in their car with their infant, unable to contact outside family for help to leave and how do you get money there to leave with and how do you leave anyway? The water purification truck from Germany. The special ops man and doctors who talked us into New Orleans to treat someone with carbon monoxide poisoning because there was no power to cook with or boil water with. The bodies. "Here lies Vera." 'The water is rising, please help."
Big red X's on the houses. Beaches raked deep by tractors.