But what was up with the guy filming, was he trying to give extreme close ups of people in the audience? LOL

Nobody has put forth any evidence to suggest that he did. Thus, his story seems disingenuous.

The sheriff was trying to send out boats to rescue people. That didn’t happen until after the huricane itself had passed.

MarkTheGreat on March 2, 2009 at 8:30 AM

Didn’t the flooding not really get going until a few days after the storm?

The sheriff was trying to send out boats to rescue people. That didn’t happen until after the huricane itself had passed.

Not everyone in Louisiana was waiting for anyone to help them. The whining and handwringing came from the same people who have been living off of the taxpayers their whole lives, and those are the ones that the media focused on. You didn’t see what the surrounding areas were doing to help each other. Most businesses in our community allowed employees to take a day off to volunteer in area shelters. But you never saw stories like that in the national news.

cajunlady on February 28, 2009 at 10:48 PM

It’s always the few deadbeats that give everyone else a bad name. The rest of La handled things about like MS and AL, but will never get credit for it.

ThereGoesTheNeighborhood on February 28, 2009 at 9:25 PM

You think Bush would have had a competent man who could cut through it. He didn’t.

He screwed up with that office and we end up with an error that makes the rest of government look clean.

Truth, not smear.

sethstorm on February 28, 2009 at 10:20 PM

You don’t appear to be listening, but I’ll try one more time. FEMA performed better during Katrina under Bush than it usually does, including pre-positioning needed supplies before the storm even hit, yet the story we keep hearing is how Bush screwed up on Katrina. It’s not true, therefore it’s a smear. This, of course, is the same media which barely even noticed that the storm hit Missisippi, but spent all its time talking about New Orleans.

New Orleans, frankly, could not survive a direct hurricane hit, and everyone knows it. They keep hoping all the hurricanes will somehow miss them or fizzle before reaching them, because they have no chance if a major (Cat 4 or better) hurricane hits them directly.

In light of this, their primary method of handling hurricanes has been, “hold your breath and hope for the best.”

Of course, just because a direct hit from a really major hurricane would finish them no matter what, doesn’t mean they can’t try to be prepared for glancing blows from lesser hurricanes. The levees were neglected, and had been for years. Before Bush, by the way.

stardust_dud on February 27, 2009 at 9:34 PM

OMG! You still haven’t watched the video? Pathetic!

Lay-Z on March 1, 2009 at 12:31 AM

Oh, BTW…nice blog.

Independence?

lolol

I bet we have common acquaintances.

Lay-Z on March 1, 2009 at 12:31 AM

Commuted from NOLA to Covington?

Musta been nice having one side of the Causeway to yourself twice a day. lol

Sorry to see you go

Oh, I never lived in Covington, I commuted from Baton Rouge for that bank for a while and later from NOLA for a client that was headquartered there. My family has roots in St Tammany Parish though.

I haven’t been to Covington since I left a consulting gig a while back. I don’t think I’ve been to The Tap Room but may have stumbled in there during my single days.

Lay-Z on February 28, 2009 at 11:54 PM

Sorry to see you go.

And I usually see people stumbling out.

I go there strictly for the food & entertainment.
hehe

I was living in San Francisco during the 1989 Loma Preita earthquake, and it was the City’s government and our neighbors that got us through the two and half months of no electric/water/gas. Sure the Army came in because we had a base down the street but really all they did was deliver water occasionally. We received water, heaters, blankets, etc from private corp. such as CocaCola, Pepsi, Pacfic Gas and Electric, Streamlight and others. My point is we shouldn’t rely on the Federal government. If you live behind a set of levies that are known to be substandard, take some responsibility yourself and have the necessary supplies to be prepared to help yourself as we did those many years ago.

And should I look for you next time I’m in The Tap Room?

I haven’t been to Covington since I left a consulting gig a while back. I don’t think I’ve been to The Tap Room but may have stumbled in there during my single days.

Lay-Z on February 28, 2009 at 11:05 PM

Those stories didn’t/don’t fit the Media Narrative.

And should I look for you next time I’m in The Tap Room?

Wondering just how many neighbors I have in this thread.

;>

We are about an hour north of New Orleans…
cajunlady on February 28, 2009 at 10:48 PM

I’ll wave next time I pass Windmill Nursery.

Which will be tomorrow.

lol

Lay-Z on February 28, 2009 at 10:38 PM

You’re right. I was in Bay St. Louis a couple of months ago.

The contrast with NOLA is stark.

cajunlady on February 28, 2009 at 10:48 PM

I worked for a company that owned a small bank based in Covington. One of the first things the owner did was put bank employees up in hotels and some houses he had in Baton Rouge so people could get a hot bath and AC. All out of his pocket and didn’t ask for a dime back. He gave money to employees who lost houses in New Orleans, even one that lived in Pascagoula that lost everything.

The next thing he did was get a branch operating in Covington two days after the storm so people could cash checks while ATMs were out of service. It was the first bank to open after the storm hit. I was doing the IT work because their sysadmin evacuated to Arkansas and took over Bank IT till he got back three weeks later.

Many of the people who worked for the bank, like you, were without power for weeks. Whats really sad is that the guy lives in one of the most liberal parts of northern California and they hate his guts there only because he’s a conservative and gives a lot to the GOP. He didn’t get any credit in the media here or there for what he did to help people out.

My dad works for the cable company that covers the northshore and they did a lot to help their employees. You didn’t hear about that either.

Whatever – it didn’t affect me in the least because I do not allow any government to control my destiny. I didn’t a plan on any help, and didn’t expect any. Did I get some? Oh yea, the ice and MRE’s that FEMA handed out were great – but I would have gotten on without them.

Tell me WTF the head of FEMA is supposed to do for ME? Is he supposed to protect my family from starving dogs roaming the neighborhood? I did that (thank you founding fathers and the second amendment). He is supposed to gut my house for me? Pfft!

People think the bank bailout last year was the first bailout? Nope – Katrina was.

Thousands of people lost their lives in the Galveston Hurricane at the beginning of the 20th century – they didn’t know a storm was coming – that was a tragedy.

What happened in New Orleans was STUPIDITY. They knew it was coming. And don’t give me the crap about the people couldn’t leave the city. A hurricane travels slower than you can walk.

Could not have said it better.

We live an hour north of the Gulf Coast, so we missed the absolute worst of the storm, but we had tons of storm damage and trees down. Getting power restored took weeks, and the weather was hot, humid, and freakishly calm. Virtually everybody cleared their own yards and driveways, and frequently the smaller roads

Same here. We are about an hour north of New Orleans and we had some wind damage, trees on houses, power outages for as much as 3wks. in some area it was 6wks. but not only did we all pitch in and help our neighbors clear debris and secure damaged homes, several families in our area took in a lot of people from NO area. A co-worker of mine had 27 people living with her for almost 6 months after Katrina. Not everyone in Louisiana was waiting for anyone to help them. The whining and handwringing came from the same people who have been living off of the taxpayers their whole lives, and those are the ones that the media focused on. You didn’t see what the surrounding areas were doing to help each other. Most businesses in our community allowed employees to take a day off to volunteer in area shelters. But you never saw stories like that in the national news.

I wouldn’t say that is isolated to NOLA though. Look at how many Obama voters now expect him to give them money.

Of course based on the Obama’s trillions of dollars of giveaways appears to be his plan.

I guess it is appropriate that we are about to get a movie version of Atlas Shrugged…

18-1 on February 28, 2009 at 10:38 PM

You’re right, it’s not isolated to New Orleans. What I find funny though is that everyone is now clamoring about a high speed rail project between NOLA and Baton Rouge that the T-P says Jindal thought was wasteful. He didn’t even mention a word about that project at all.

The other thing the idiots don’t realize is that it’s going to be difficult to setup a rail on swampland that can sustain a train going 100+ MPH. The federal government couldn’t even keep the levee system here maintained, you think they’re going to maintain a new high speed rail system? It could be years before they start on the project and a decade before the first train departs.

No, they don’t care, they just want their goodies.

soundingboard on February 28, 2009 at 10:33 PM

My aunt and uncle live in Biloxi and they love Barbour over there. If you go to Biloxi today, you would have never guessed a major storm hit there four years ago.

Me too and I agree with everything you said. I moved to New Orleans two years ago and its sad that people here are still complaining about how the world owes them all a living.

Its like that Aesop’s fable of the Ant and the Grasshopper but the grasshopper has a big mouth and hasn’t learned his lesson.

Lay-Z on February 28, 2009 at 9:38 PM

I wouldn’t say that is isolated to NOLA though. Look at how many Obama voters now expect him to give them money.

Of course based on the Obama’s trillions of dollars of giveaways appears to be his plan.

I guess it is appropriate that we are about to get a movie version of Atlas Shrugged…

sethstorm on February 28, 2009 at 10:20 PM

Maybe you missed this…

Hmmm…Haley Barbour did pretty well next door?

Same FEMA, different story.

How do you explain that?

soundingboard on February 28, 2009 at 9:12 PM

Still waiting for that explanation.