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NOLA ladies please read
This was in my local paper and I am writing a response but before I sent it in I wanted to see what others thought, please read this and chime in.
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I was on I-55 when he made that statement, my kid sat next to me in the car and cried when she heard it. It really upset me. With that said and the article mentions that it was a cat 4 when he said that, and they were expecting it to increase but it didn't. My feelings are mixed. I feel he could have used better wording to describe how serious it was. And I completely felt at the time and now that he was doing it just to strike fear into people. That pissed me off.
On the other hand, what if he was right...and it stayed that size. Would all those people have left? Or would they have stayed and you would have had another Katrina, only worse because of the way it was going to hit us. I watched alot of people during Katrina blow it off because "i stayed for Camille" or whatever the reason only to be stuck homeless and unprepared, freaking out at the hospital, completely devastated. I've also run into many since Katrina declaring they will never leave again "my house didn't get damanged during Katrina". That's crazy thinking imo, every storm is different. Better safe than sorry.
Just my two cents.
for the most part I agree with the article. I think that Nagin was going off what the weather people were saying. Had Gustav not weakened it would have been strong. Had it not turned West it would have been worse. Saying "cry wolf" implies that Nagin knew what the storm would do. NO ONE knew what it would do. Even Aaron Broussard told the Westbank residents they needed to evacuate because of the threat of flooding. It wasn't just Nagin. Nagin is taking a hard wrap because he was in charge during Katrina. Why isn't that article looking at Central LA or Baton Rouge? N.O. wasn't the only area affected by the storm.
In agreement with the article, I do think more people will stay for the next storm no matter what people tell them to do. I think the evacuation done by the city soured a lot of people's ideologies of what should have happened.
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I adopt Mrs.Saxy's argument on the topic. Well said!
BUT, I have to admit that I was very upset with Nagin b/c it seemed to me that he was just hoping Gustav would clobber the Westbank. Every time he spoke it was the WB levees this, WB levees that, Harvey canal this, etc. He mentioned numerous times, "WB you were spared during Katrina, but now is the time you get yours." Or something like that. Maybe he was just urging residents of the WB to leave, but I just got this strange vibe from him.
I like Nagin and I think it is unfair that some reporters are saying he cried wolf. After Katrina I think he lost his eloquence when making speeches and now people are jumping on what he says b/c #1 they can and #2 he gives them the material.
I'm just reading this article today and I think that the author probably has a bit of pie in his face as you never know what may come. Here the author speaks of how Galveston hasn't seen a storm in all of these years and yet, Galveston was just about demolished with Ike. And, like Nagin, the weather forcasters predicted sure death for the Galveston residents who chose to stay behind.
I don't think that Nagin is original in his scare tactics, the media does it all the time. And, he admitted on more than one occassion that he was overstating things to get his point across to those people who were hesitating.