Might I also add that Hurricane Katrina hit Mississippi, not New Orleans….had New Orleans taken a direct hit…the superdome would be as level as all the beachfront buildings along the beach in Mississippi….

One thing I learned from this storm is that people judge what the next one will do in comparrison to what the last one did. Here…Katrina was followed by her big bitch sister Camille! Camille changed the MS Gulf Coast in 1969. People kept saying, but Camille didn’t flood my house, Camille didn’t do this…

As far as the levee in New Orleans…the federal govt has been warned for YEARS that it could only withstand a category 3 storm and NO MORE. They have been holding funding back on that for a LONG time! It has now proven that the federal govt has messed up….BIG time…

As far as the reaction time…did you know that in some areas…officials will go to the homes of residents before the storm and say…you must leave and they will get them out…and if you choose to stay you must sign a waiver…put your social security number on your body and realize that any 911 call will not get any response. If people choose to stay…thats what they choose…don’t feel sorry for them for choosing not to take help. There was transportation available for them to get out…they chose not to take it. I do realize that some people in New Orleans had no way to get out….but to say that it’s a race issue…I can’t believe people are stupid enough to think that.

Also, Mississippi had 65 feet of water in some places….that’s A LOT of water!!! There were several cities that were leveled. Some people didn’t think that they were even CLOSE enough to water to get flooded. As far as the govt…Brown is an even bigger idiot than Bush. Brown did a horrible job with FEMA. I think in Mississippi, we were smart, we didn’t wait for the govt…we moved our butts and started to get things done.

HOWEVER…I must say that we Haley Barbor, Gene Taylor, and Trent Lott did a FABULOUS job of realizing that it doesn’t matter which side of the line they’re on regarding politics…they worked together. Some wonderful volunteerers came to help us and the military was definitely here, but we reacted differently than New Orleans…it wasn’t a warzone here…

Louisiana is STILL fighting within itself to place blame…all the while Mississippi is rebuilding and we have a few casinos back open and beautiful places being rebuilt on the beach, hopefully a little stronger, but who knows….

We all know that in man vs nature….nature has the upperhand!