So Who Watched Frontline on Katrina Last Night...

[rsmith6621]

If you did please respond to how you feel now...

[malaise]

1. Still amazed and I own Spike Lee's When the levees broke

Can't believe how little has been done to help NOLA citizens recover.
Bush should be charged for high crimes over NOLA.

[JuniperLea]

2. I couldn't bring myself to watch it...

I'm dehydrated... too many tears lately.

[HowHasItComeToThis]

9. RIGHT ACCORDING TO REPUBLICAN PLAN

PRIVATIZE

[Fire1]

11. Not quite. More like 'free market no bid contracts and eminent domain.'

But in THIS case, it was robbery b/c the 'owners didn't get paid. It was a well thought out plan, alright.

[ColbertWatcher]

3. More pissed than before because of the bullshit Libertarian message hidden in it.

Very little discussion about why people were prevented from returning.

Too much crap about Blanco and "Road Home" program, next to nothing about the trailers and the forced move out of state.

Also, no mention about the privatization of the school system.

[TNOE]

4. Damn, we only get one vote

I thought it was very well done - and it pissed me off to no end. This was ABSOLUTE EVIL at work - it destroyed lives, families, homes - all that was good. If it weren't for "the people", nothing would be done still. The government did everything they could to make things MORE DIFFICULT.

[ColbertWatcher]

6. The federal government prevented the people from returning. n/t

[TNOE]

7. There are a multitude of reasons

in fact so many, so much that needs to be done - I honestly wouldn't know where to start.

There are no homes, no jobs, no hospitals, and no schools. How the hell do you return? To what?

[ColbertWatcher]

8. People could have returned in groups.

But the GOP-run government prevented people from returning.

[uppityperson]

5. I missed it, didn't know it was on until later.

(thanks to the Duer who pm'd me, sorry I didn't get it until too late). I am still as pissed and am amazed at how little has been done in places.

[slackmaster]

10. I had a good US History teacher in high school who explained why he thought NOLA was doomed

That was in the school year 1974 - 1975. The guy was a former civil engineer with experience in large levy and dam projects. Also a Pearl Harbor survivor.

As he explained it the whole design is wrong; they've artificially prevented the Mississippi from making a natural course change to the west into the basin of what is now known as the Atchafalaya River, while stopping the sedimentation that would have raised the level of NO and destroying wetlands to the south and east that protected the city from storms.

Katrina is only the beginning of the end. Ultimate destruction of the city can be held off only by massive investments in hydrology projects at a level far greater than has ever been applied there. He blamed the Army Corps of Engineers for lack of long-term vision. (His biggest pet peeves were the ACE and Andrew Jackson.)

He drew diagrams showing the relative levels of Lake Ponchartrain, the city, and the levies. He said it was inevitable that the city would one day see a massive flood, probably resulting from a tropical cyclone hit.

I don't know jack shit about hydrology, but the way he explained it made sense at the time. Destruction of the city has little to do with the Katrina evacuations. It's the whole platform being wrong. The people were going to be driven out sooner or later.

I voted "It was filmed on a Hollywood set".