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taking days to deliver water to the superdome. That enraged me! nt boston bean Aug 2015 #1
That did outrage me but I wasn't shocked malaise Aug 2015 #5
beyond the horror of that event virtualobserver Aug 2015 #154
the separation of men from their families - dixiegrrrrl Aug 2015 #170
Indeed - the Shock Doctrine had taken over with shades of racism malaise Aug 2015 #171
All tjose buses just sitting in water sand not picking up yeoman6987 Aug 2015 #90
+1 DashOneBravo Aug 2015 #176
yep! Liberal_in_LA Aug 2015 #148
I remember calling Republican congressmembers' staffs and pleading with them to Arugula Latte Aug 2015 #210
Fucking Barbara Bush's attitude gopiscrap Aug 2015 #2
She pissed me off malaise Aug 2015 #8
I can see you expected much of that treatment, but slaughtering those people even surprised you. randys1 Aug 2015 #152
Yep I loved that malaise Aug 2015 #155
OMG, first time I heard that too LOL randys1 Aug 2015 #156
Yes on this one yuiyoshida Aug 2015 #110
The indifference at the top. madamesilverspurs Aug 2015 #3
Hope you saw Rachel's exposure of Heck of a job Brownie in malaise Aug 2015 #4
Yeb! seems to be recycling an awful lot of his brother's associates and ideas.... Hekate Aug 2015 #73
Same here malaise Aug 2015 #108
Wait, BROWNIE made an appearance with Jeb, RECENTLY, proclaiming his proficiency with Katrina? randys1 Aug 2015 #153
i was disappointed rachel did not mention the murders on the bridge questionseverything Aug 2015 #181
I was going to say incompetence, but could be indifference rurallib Aug 2015 #10
Racists in Gretna sending police to turn desperate people trying to find help back across bridge. Hoyt Aug 2015 #6
That was pretty awful to me Generic Other Aug 2015 #137
Civilians who came with their boats and started rescuing people Warpy Aug 2015 #7
Excellent ones malaise Aug 2015 #11
One of the boatmen was a DUer, iirc, who kept posting here for the duration.... Hekate Aug 2015 #79
That was Swamp Rat, wasn't it? reflection Aug 2015 #157
Could've been Swampy. I miss him. nt Hekate Aug 2015 #186
Miss him big time malaise Aug 2015 #199
my outrage, too. you expressed it better than I could...I'd just be ranting in a rage... CTyankee Aug 2015 #136
The nursing home deaths nadine_mn Aug 2015 #9
Yes those nursing home deaths malaise Aug 2015 #13
My Sister's FIL NOLALady Aug 2015 #93
oh how awful. I am so sorry nadine_mn Aug 2015 #109
I was told by a National Guard member.. peace13 Aug 2015 #12
Wow! malaise Aug 2015 #15
My son was in college at the time. peace13 Aug 2015 #220
The young don't lie about suck shocking details malaise Aug 2015 #221
They were very poor so this is the best thing that could happen for them tularetom Aug 2015 #14
I don't think I can do it... ms liberty Aug 2015 #16
I remember it that way too. I could enumerate, but it would go on and on and on....nt Hekate Aug 2015 #74
So many things! Lydia Leftcoast Aug 2015 #17
You are 100% correct malaise Aug 2015 #20
Jesus. I didn't remember 4 and 5 Hekate Aug 2015 #86
And more on #4 Lydia Leftcoast Aug 2015 #205
that still 10 years later some of the worst hit black neighborhoods ARE STILL NOT BACK...... a kennedy Aug 2015 #18
But that can't be shocking malaise Aug 2015 #25
you're right, it's just sickening, and disgusting...... a kennedy Aug 2015 #53
I like to think that those who left those neighborhoods found better lives elsewhere. Ace Rothstein Aug 2015 #58
Gee, is that you, Babs? mnhtnbb Aug 2015 #60
Perfect malaise Aug 2015 #120
Lower Ninth Ward was a true community with interlocking families forever... Hekate Aug 2015 #89
Maybe some of them. NOLALady Aug 2015 #92
...^ that 840high Aug 2015 #80
The conditions in the Superdome. Separating children from their parents when being evacuated Dont call me Shirley Aug 2015 #19
NO shock with their lack of compassion malaise Aug 2015 #26
The utter incompetence--just unbelievable incompetence-- mnhtnbb Aug 2015 #21
That the government didn't swing into action right away. Starry Messenger Aug 2015 #22
That Republicans would be so overt in their callousness mythology Aug 2015 #23
The fact that the Bush White House wanted to use it as a teachable momment of "those people applegrove Aug 2015 #24
The blocking of the bridge to the next town to prevent Gloria Aug 2015 #27
My father at the time was an over the road truck driver and his company along with others hrmjustin Aug 2015 #28
The smell in the superdome. X_Digger Aug 2015 #29
I recall people at DU speculating that the Superdome would have bullwinkle428 Aug 2015 #35
I can't imagine that smell ever completely going away. X_Digger Aug 2015 #39
While the levees broke in New Orleans and the Mississippi coast was devastated. . . DinahMoeHum Aug 2015 #30
That shocked you - these are the men who lied a country into a war malaise Aug 2015 #34
The sheer indifference on Bush's part while part of the nation. . . DinahMoeHum Aug 2015 #42
You were right from 2000 malaise Aug 2015 #48
TRIGGER WARNING: DO NOT WATCH IF FROM NOLA: freshwest Aug 2015 #95
No - excellent post malaise Aug 2015 #107
I grew up in the South in the shadow of WW2. Nothing shocks me. All I felt was grief and outrage. freshwest Aug 2015 #139
I think I've just encountered the KingCharlemagne Aug 2015 #217
It was intentional. No surprise the bushes commit crimes against humanity, that's who they are. Dont call me Shirley Aug 2015 #135
+1000000 TubbersUK Aug 2015 #100
Refusing help from other countries catrose Aug 2015 #31
"Brownie's" bald-faced admission that they didn't have a fucking clue bullwinkle428 Aug 2015 #32
But we knew they didn't have a fucking clue in any sphere malaise Aug 2015 #41
The shooting and neglect, as already mentioned, were the most shocking, but valerief Aug 2015 #33
I will never forget that racist coverage of hungry people looking for food malaise Aug 2015 #46
Not to sound crass but nothing shocked me GusBob Aug 2015 #36
Wow malaise Aug 2015 #57
It was a very bad time for our family GusBob Aug 2015 #62
I'll check for the book next month next month when I'm in the US malaise Aug 2015 #162
The Army Corps of Engineers Aerows Aug 2015 #179
The death toll discrepency... catnhatnh Aug 2015 #37
I never believed the numbers we were given malaise Aug 2015 #51
No one that I know believes those numbers. NOLALady Aug 2015 #96
When I was in Mississippi, people were saying that they had friends who were missing Lydia Leftcoast Aug 2015 #206
Exactly. NOLALady Aug 2015 #211
One of the saddest experiences occurred when I was working in the medical tent Lydia Leftcoast Aug 2015 #214
30,000 people, bush said on his way out of office, that they pulled 30,000 people out. What he Dont call me Shirley Aug 2015 #138
What lies we were told. nt Hekate Aug 2015 #188
A couple of things, people was put on an overpass, the temperature was 103, in the hot sun, no water Thinkingabout Aug 2015 #38
Petty, but forcing people to abandon their pets footinmouth Aug 2015 #40
YES - I don't think it's petty at all - especially that little boy who had to leave his dog LiberalElite Aug 2015 #65
I was going to post the same. I would not have left my Yorkies behind. SammyWinstonJack Aug 2015 #166
The juxtaposition of what was said and what was shown on the news, convention center uppityperson Aug 2015 #43
The absolute callous and depraved disregard for human life Crunchy Frog Aug 2015 #44
What took so fricking long to get food and water to people in the Superdome? tanyev Aug 2015 #45
And then when they were evacuated, hey! how about those at the convention center? uppityperson Aug 2015 #49
Yes, that's where the people were outside in the heat adigal Aug 2015 #194
I live in WA and called Bill Gates as the richest person I knew and begged him to get involved uppityperson Aug 2015 #204
Everything shocked me at the time. But none of it shocks me now. I listened to the DR show kelliekat44 Aug 2015 #47
Good gawd. I can't pick out just one fucking thing. Ain't happening. lonestarnot Aug 2015 #50
Everytime I thought it couldn't get worse dflprincess Aug 2015 #52
That Hoover dsc Aug 2015 #54
And then there were the contaminated FEMA trailers used to house evacuees Art_from_Ark Aug 2015 #55
Thanks for that one malaise Aug 2015 #56
I would say the closing of the Crescent City Connection davidpdx Aug 2015 #59
Yep. Two different bridges. NOLALady Aug 2015 #97
I thought so davidpdx Aug 2015 #106
Just reading through this thread is depressing. Ace Rothstein Aug 2015 #61
I didn't get to see all of it Hydra Aug 2015 #63
When a fire broke out in the stadium and the nat guard told fire chief notadmblnd Aug 2015 #64
ALL of it. NanceGreggs Aug 2015 #66
Very well said malaise Aug 2015 #113
Shocking at the time, but true and necessary.... blue neen Aug 2015 #67
I read a non fiction book about Katrina that was astounding. vanlassie Aug 2015 #68
We bought Spike Lee's When the Levees Broke malaise Aug 2015 #69
All of the above and Condi Rice shopping for shoes in NYC. GreatCaesarsGhost Aug 2015 #70
The utter abandonment of US citizens by our government. Callous. Heartless. Hekate Aug 2015 #71
I'm only shocked that I wasn't really shocked by it. GoCubsGo Aug 2015 #72
And they only victim shame the poor black people that couldn't afford to leave maryellen99 Aug 2015 #75
Our country's leadership looked the other way when they were needed the most. lpbk2713 Aug 2015 #76
All of it. ALL of it truebluegreen Aug 2015 #77
The fact that it went from a major American city to Mogadishu almost literally overnight XemaSab Aug 2015 #78
Which isn't to deny the human tragedy, but point out "There but for the grace of God..." XemaSab Aug 2015 #101
so many things were awful KT2000 Aug 2015 #81
Not necessarily the thing that shocked me the most beltanefauve Aug 2015 #82
I remember watching that. Couldn't believe what I was seeing. SammyWinstonJack Aug 2015 #168
I was vacationing in Canada at the time, and I was totally shocked (and the Nay Aug 2015 #83
The coldness H2O Man Aug 2015 #84
I knew about his coldness after Iraq malaise Aug 2015 #124
There were many bad things, the shootings, corpses floating in the water, but one good thing which Uncle Joe Aug 2015 #85
"Heckuva" display... 3catwoman3 Aug 2015 #87
This message was self-deleted by its author nadinbrzezinski Aug 2015 #88
Dead bodies floating in the water. Boudica the Lyoness Aug 2015 #91
They separated young children NOLALady Aug 2015 #94
The depths to which society descended in the midst of a catastrophe. egduj Aug 2015 #98
Niothing shocks me about the US or Canada anymore. Both countries akbacchus_BC Aug 2015 #99
Most shocking to me was... Mr_Jefferson_24 Aug 2015 #102
An old woman in a wheelchair who died of thirst.. whathehell Aug 2015 #103
That was shocking indeed malaise Aug 2015 #114
Yes. Unimaginable. whathehell Aug 2015 #115
I was in Iraq in the Air Force at the time cpwm17 Aug 2015 #104
I believe you malaise Aug 2015 #125
My brother was a fireman and paramedic from Indiana who volunteered... Contrary1 Aug 2015 #105
Unfuggingbelievable malaise Aug 2015 #127
I remember fire fighters (Atlanta?) who's duty was a photo op with W underpants Aug 2015 #128
Sadly, nothing surprised me. FLPanhandle Aug 2015 #111
In Tx, people were stuck in traffic on highways, out of gas and Tx did nothing to help. Sunlei Aug 2015 #112
People drowning in their attics... Octafish Aug 2015 #116
This Rex Aug 2015 #117
Sickening indeed malaise Aug 2015 #159
They should! Every single last rotten one of them! Rex Aug 2015 #161
Not having electricity for well over a month Aerows Aug 2015 #118
That's awfully inconvenient but it didn't shock me malaise Aug 2015 #160
It's very hard without having running water Aerows Aug 2015 #174
We spent a lot of time at the beach malaise Aug 2015 #175
We were hit very hard Aerows Aug 2015 #177
The lack of response as people were stranded and dying deutsey Aug 2015 #119
The bridge. We learned about it after the fact. Still runs my blood cold. KittyWampus Aug 2015 #121
how third world we appeared. the utter inability to reach people to save them, for so long. nt seabeyond Aug 2015 #122
The sweetheart contracts to 1)Innovative Emergency Management and 2)Service Corp Int'l. Mc Mike Aug 2015 #123
Agreed, that's why I say it was planned genocide. Soon after, devastated areas along the coast were freshwest Aug 2015 #134
When our people are in charge, and a disaster strikes a very red area, Mc Mike Aug 2015 #196
Case in point: The Cilnton administration's response to the Grand Forks ND floods Lydia Leftcoast Aug 2015 #203
And our side isn't unhappy to see red parts of America helped. Mc Mike Aug 2015 #218
Thanks for expanding my knowledge. Sounds like 'fusion politics' or 'the 3rd Reconstruction': freshwest Aug 2015 #208
100% ^^^^^ EVERYONE READ THIS!. . .n/t annabanana Aug 2015 #145
This should be an OP malaise Aug 2015 #147
The complete incompetence of FEMA, which under Clinton mountain grammy Aug 2015 #126
Boggles the mind how a professionally run organization could be gutted in one Administration Hekate Aug 2015 #165
My old college roommate worked under Witt during the Clinton years. mountain grammy Aug 2015 #185
They politicized every 'social institution' ...FOR PROFIT malaise Aug 2015 #172
Yes, the money mountain grammy Aug 2015 #184
Great posts above. How about that it was FOX NEWS who made it a story underpants Aug 2015 #129
I heard that but we dn't have Fox by choice so we never saw their coverage malaise Aug 2015 #163
The disgusting display of open racism, especially the media reporting. KMOD Aug 2015 #130
And, don't forget how the media portrayed people taking things from stores in the aftermath. GoCubsGo Aug 2015 #169
Case in point: The photos in one of the posts up-thread Lydia Leftcoast Aug 2015 #207
But why was racism in the media shocking??? malaise Aug 2015 #189
I guess it was an eye-opening experience for me. KMOD Aug 2015 #192
That's true for many folks malaise Aug 2015 #198
This Country's RobinA Aug 2015 #131
It wasn't an inability to handle the crisis - it was a (careless?) decision not hedgehog Aug 2015 #150
Precisely malaise Aug 2015 #219
How much people who claim to care about NO do *not* care about every other big city in the US. Romulox Aug 2015 #132
The fact that many proudly proposed DonCoquixote Aug 2015 #133
Watching Americans beg for rescue/food/water in a major city in front of our eyes on national TV ariesgem Aug 2015 #140
A good thing happened, shocking I suppose... Eleanors38 Aug 2015 #141
Hearing a first hand story loyalsister Aug 2015 #142
That is shocking malaise Aug 2015 #146
There was power politics of the highest order during Katrina. Eleanors38 Aug 2015 #143
The lack of interest in rebuilding NOLA KamaAina Aug 2015 #144
Two things for me as well Tsiyu Aug 2015 #149
We here on DU knew it was going to be bad before the hurricane ever hit - hedgehog Aug 2015 #151
I remember the threads as if it were yesterday malaise Aug 2015 #164
Same reason he didn't see 9-11 coming. He's a cold-blooded sociopath who cares not... Hekate Aug 2015 #167
The genuine heartfelt empathy of the folks at the shelter in San Antonio. frustrated_lefty Aug 2015 #158
Nice post but empathy never shocks me malaise Aug 2015 #173
If the following timeline doesn't make you angry, you have a heart of stone Lydia Leftcoast Aug 2015 #178
How are they not in prison for malaise Aug 2015 #180
Not responding directly to your question but if you haven't seen Spike Lee's documentary . . . hatrack Aug 2015 #182
We bought that malaise Aug 2015 #191
the efforts of the people on police scanners alc Aug 2015 #183
I am never shocked locks Aug 2015 #187
The refusal for help from Cuba was cruel to me. Cuba has a akbacchus_BC Aug 2015 #190
People outside the Convention Center in the heat begging for water adigal Aug 2015 #193
It was sickening malaise Aug 2015 #202
Right at the beginning of this video it shows these people adigal Aug 2015 #195
So many but people on the roofs waiting to be rescued. DawgHouse Aug 2015 #197
Nothing. It was just "Business As Usual" for the PTB, and Zorra Aug 2015 #200
Bush, Brownie and Nagin! RKP5637 Aug 2015 #201
That I was told well beforehand this was likely Bradical79 Aug 2015 #209
And Katrina was a Cat 3 when it hit NOLA. NOLALady Aug 2015 #212
Zeitoun beating the crap out of his wife Syzygy321 Aug 2015 #213
That happened several years after Katrina Lydia Leftcoast Aug 2015 #215
The OP asked for post-Katrina shockers. Syzygy321 Aug 2015 #216
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