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Originally Posted by Onefast99gsx
Yes i'm onboard with you 100%, JET. By knowing that this could have happened, we could have been more proactive about it in the early 1900's. Hate to say it, but we're a more reactive nation than anything. It usually takes a disaster like this to wake up. We're awake for awhile and soon after we go back to sleep for the next episode. I don't know if that's just supposed to be that way or we're dumb OR just run by dumb people. We pour billions of taxpayer dollars through the government portal and much of that is used for a good cause but dammit alot is wasted. Government just plain and simple, pisses me off. Government needs to watch it. There are 295 million people in the U.S. and the number of government officials isn't even a spec of that. Piss off enough people and you have one hell of a chaotic moment.
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i'm a "government official" and I have little impact on what happens around the state.
But I make the officers able to research your plate number so you can get tickets
as for this whole mess.
It's pretty horrible. People shooting the rescuers who are risking their own lives anyway. Hospitals having to lock their doors because people are trying to break in and loot the place.
i do agree with cvd and jet. That it's kinda like me being pissed because my house got torn up by a tornado.
What happened, I do not have any other word that horrible.
But why would you stay when you KNOW 160+mph winds are coming your way and a storm so big that it could envelope an entire state.
my ass would be beating feat. A weeks notice is enough to get the 500,000 people out of town. Some choose to stay because "they could ride it out". Since when does anyone ride out a catagory 5 ANYTHING?
as for the relief efforts, WTF is wrong with FEMA?
why didn't they have items ready. CATAGORY 5 FEMA, NOT 4 like Andrew was.
fyi: andrews was a cat 4 and caused 27+ billion in damage.
as for them not rebuilding the city. Not a chance in a hell of them NOT rebuilding.
Do you know the trillions of dollars that would take to make a new city that big in any acceptable amount of time? It will be levved again and pumped out, this time to hand 5x the amount of water.
not saying another city won't sprout up and take the commerce away and a good part of the population. But there WILL be another New Orleans within 6 months.