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In reply to the discussion: DUers post the thing about post Katrina that shocked you the most [View all]Aerows
(39,961 posts)(oddly, very loosely affiliated with the Army itself) stated in the fifties that the levees wouldn't hold if a hurricane came up the mouth of the Mississippi into Lake Pontchartrain. That is not a secret in NO, that is a fact that everyone on the Lakefront knew.
Two things, however, made it worse. 1. They didn't efficiently evacuate people 2. They waited until the last minute to start logistics (evacuation, housing, food, medicine, child care).
Nothing like being in the street clearing debris and an asshole in a Red Cross truck comes by two and a half weeks later asking "Have ya'll got water?"
We'd be dead at that point if we hadn't done everything under the sun to refrigerate medicines for neighbors, keep ice chests full, have water available for kids and busting our asses in 90+ weather only to go home to a hot house and have work to do there, too.
Damn displaced snakes, wild pigs and other feral crap that was running around, too.