Hurricane Katrina
ZephyrZodiac:
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ROMANTIC IMAGES??? I used to live in Melbourne, and some of my friends had their houses destroyed the year I was in grade 12, and we lost our beach house (yeah, yeah, boo hoo) in a bushfire. I don't attach any romance to the word. Who are they thinking of? This is the stupidest explanation I have ever heard.
A bit like saying that because the word "avalanche" has quite a pleasant sound, that avalanches are not really dangerous! It doesn't matter what word is used to describe something devastating, it doesn't become less devastating if you use a different word, but just confuses people!
veilchen:
The federal government of the US was extremely sluggish to respond; this was admitted by your president himself. National Guard personnel from Virginia, a 12 caravan convoy, was turned around mid-way to the Gulf Coast, because the government and FEMA could not coordinate. The Armory in D.C. is full with Guard personnel, waiting to be deployed, and they are waiting, and waiting, and waiting.
The Mayor of NO has my full support for his words. He sees his people suffer and die, while the government drags its heels. The last time I looked, the Gulf Coast region was part of the United States, so why can't the rest of the country rally around its stricken comrade? Since they are part of the federal government they can damn well expect help from them, just as they would provide help if Boise were hit with a natural disaster.
It is callous to tell those people to build elsewhere, this is their home after all. The Louisiana seaports are very important to the Federal Government, somehow I don't think they would care to lose them.
The European Union is dipping into their raw materials reserves to help out. Europe has no Oil production to speak off, but they will help. It is sad that the European Union was quicker on the ball than the US Government of which the Gulf Coast is a large and income-providing part.
ZephyrZodiac:
And certain US officials and newspapers had the nerve to criticize the response in London to the London Bombings!
I think if there was a disaster on the scale of what's happening in Louisiana, then European government leaders would tell all their emergency services to get things moving and worry about getting the funding later!
Inge:
Quote from: ZephyrZodiac on 2005 September 03, 18:34:46
And certain US officials and newspapers had the nerve to criticize the response in London to the London Bombings!
Well that does surprise me, cos even us Brits were quite pleasantly surprised how well the authorities coped with that :D
ZephyrZodiac:
Yes, Inge, there was definitely criticism! Plus a lot of misinformation - they apparently knew things in the US about what was happening that people over here didn't know - I think most of which was based on personal opinions and rumour!
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