re: National Geographic out with new 5-part doc on Hurricane Katrina

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And here’s this dude saying the helicopters flew past him to get to Lakeview, gtfo.

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What made me laugh was that he said they kept flying over to help other people instead and then they only got help once they put the elderly and disabled on top of the roof.

Uhhhh, duh. Why wouldn't you have those in most need of help up top from the jump instead of what was probably a bunch of able bodied individuals?

Those in most need of rescuing get rescued first. I thought this was common sense.

I really hated the fact that they just implied whites in Lakeview were getting helped first, with no context at all, and basically saying that Lakeview residents shouldn't have been helped because it was a more affluent neighborhood, when the neighborhood was dealing with just as catastrophic flooding.

So, I'm taking it that this documentary isn't worth the time?

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So, I'm taking it that this documentary isn't worth the time?

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I can’t complain too much about it. The moments where victims pull the race card aren’t too bad. You get a sense that many of the ppl see the government as this omniscient entity that should respond to disasters faster than dominos can deliver pizza.

One thing I never considered was how poor ppl could not afford to drive out of the city. Seems the city should have had a pre-storm evacuation by rail/bus system for those that could not afford to drive

Nothing is groundbreaking. Anyone who lived through Katrina knew how bad local and federal government fricked up. The email conversation about Ruth’s Chris is mind bogglingly bad and pissed me off

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The busses under water

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Again, who would have driven these busses, where would they have dropped people off before Kateina(nobody planned properly or had opened places), and where would these low paid bus drivers that had to leave their families stayed?

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Who was going to drive all those school busses?

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People that stole them like the one my mom rode on

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So, I'm taking it that this documentary isn't worth the time?

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It was the story of Katrina as it related to poor black people from New Orleans.

Outside of a fire chief, an LSU hurricane expert, one white Cajun from Plaquemine and a white woman who was on Nagins staff the entire narrative was told from that perspective.

It’s valid from that perspective but gives virtually no larger sense of that storm as it relates to Mississippi or parts of LA outside of New Orleans.

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You kind of have to be able-bodied to get on your roof

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If there are elderly and injured busting through housing roofs a few neighborhoods over with water up to the roof vs a bunch of normal looking men and women on roof of American Can under no threat of rising water, where do you think first responders are going?

In the American Can instance, I just don't think there was a racial aspect to it at all and just more of giving rescue priority to those in neighborhoods on rooftops with rising water and nowhere to go vs those in apartment building, while extremely uncomfortable, likely still had some dry floors.

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I will forever be glad that Mississippi had Haley Barbour as governor during this time vs someone like Blanco.

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When Katrina hit NOLA, I was still a Democrat. Watching the difference between how the aftermath was handled by MS public officials versus LA “public servants” converted me. Haven’t looked back.

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People that stole them like the one my mom rode on

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Your mom rode on a flooded school bus that had no fuel?

bullshite

Well I guess his mom was one of the lucky ones