Mississippi and Hurricane Katrina: the forgotten Landmass

Nobody gives a shite about Mississippi

I think there is not as much national attention given to Mississippi as New Orleans because Mississippi effectively evacuated almost all of the 400,000 people from their coastal counties before the storm hit, as opposed to New Orlean's lame evacuation results. Even though Mississippi lost 235 people to the storm, they didn't have those eye catching videos of helicopters plucking desperate people off rooftops to spice up the networks' teasers before the news broadcasts.

Ive seen some stories, so I would not say its forgotten

A major u.s city was left inhabitable for months, something not seen before in our time, so its going to garner more attention naturally.
The GDP of the New Orleans region is probably close to that of the whole state of Mississippi.
So the the bigger the better as far as coverage goes, sorry

Eta: im growing tired of hearing about the whole deal anyway

Parts of the MS gulf coast got blown off the face of the earth. By Tuesday morning, the water had receded, and recovery began.

Tuesday morning in NOLA, the water was still rising, and the situation was getting worse. The situation continued to get worse until probably Friday when large scale evacs of the stranded finally began.

I would not think MS was "forgotten" per se. I would say that Katrina probably caused the two worst natural disaster situations in current times. What happened in MS was worthy of years of global coverage. Unfortunately, it paled in comparison to what happened in NOLA at the very same time.

I agree 100% that the media did not recognize the MS gulf coast. New Orleans got most of the attention.

Katrina left a path of death and descruction that didn't seek out borders, race or income. It was an equal opportunity annihilator. The difference was the aftermath. MS began picking up the pieces shortly after Katrina purred well northeast of landfall. And for that, they should be commended. Also left out were the other cities and townships in southern LA not named New Orleans that worked equally as hard to get their families and lives back in order. I also remember Rita slamming the western side of LA with category 3 winds just weeks after Katrina. You didn't hear much about those folks either.

that's the way it was when it happened---all about NOLA and hardly a thing about where she came on land.

The water didn't stick around for 3 weeks there