Ozymandeas
Veteran
I came across this on Tiktok and thought I’d share. They did those people dirty 
Former New Orleans Police Chief says he’s still haunted by Hurricane Katrina 20 years later.
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MajesticLion
Veteran
Watching the Race Against Time doc on this now. It's not an easy watch but worth the reminders.
The most obvious question: have the people down there have prepared themselves any better since?
The most obvious question: have the people down there have prepared themselves any better since?
OneDeep
Veteran
Other then strengthening the levees
Not a lot different has been done but then again you can’t really prepare for something like that to happen to that extent
MajesticLion
Veteran
How do you figure this?
OneDeep
Veteran
I’m from New Orleans moved recently though Like I said the Levee system around the city has been strengthened but overall the city can’t take another Katrina
The police department is already low on man power as it is
Infrastructure is terrible
The pumping system is still just as bad during a regular thunderstorm
Yes more people might try to get out but the city is still fukked if another storm like that happens
They admit at the end of the doc that even though they poured a ton of money into reinforcing it, they did not account for global warming in which they're predicting the sea level to rise higher than four feet by 2070
Tribal Outkast
Veteran
Watched the Hulu doc. It’s unbelievable how all that unfolded. I’m afraid that any city could have this happen and that’s scary.
What fukks me up about Katrina is that there's a bunch of demonic shyt that was hidden within them waters. From cacs murking folks for fun, rapes, and plain neglect of human beings. Hell, there were folks that lost their whole identity because the city was underwater that the paper were destroyed.There used to be this lady that lived in the homeless shelter I used to live in, that lost all of her information from birth certificate to social security information. She also was suffering from dementia so that was a doozy trying to help her with adjusting, especially getting out of prison.
MajesticLion
Veteran
Like I said the Levee system around the city has been strengthened but overall the city can’t take another Katrina
The police department is already low on man power as it is
Infrastructure is terrible
The pumping system is still just as bad during a regular thunderstorm
Yes more people might try to get out but the city is still fukked if another storm like that happens
I see what you mean. There's no way to prevent the water from doing it's thing.
The other things are what I'm getting at: being better informed, better planning for evac routes, better EDC/EDD, vigilanteism, local political incompentence, all the things you know to expect.
You can absolutely prepare for those.
They admit at the end of the doc that even though they poured a ton of money into reinforcing it, they did not account for global warming in which they're predicting the sea level to rise higher than four feet by 2070
I have to take breaks in between the eps. I use the time to take notes. If I watched these all the way through I wouldn't process things properly...it's easy to just pinball back and forth from sadness to anger otherwise.
MajesticLion
Veteran
That's the first of five episodes, yes.
Yeah, I assumed that you just hadn't finished it yet. Sorry for the spoiler lol
Recca Gatsby
LWO
I imagine there had to be a ton of crime and illegal shyt thst got covered up by it. Serial killers getting passes, people taking on new identities, murders under wraps
Justin Nitsuj
Superstar
Hurricane Katrina is my first proof of really seeing how the government doesn’t care about black people no matter where they are from.