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notadmblnd

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64. When a fire broke out in the stadium and the nat guard told fire chief
Thu Aug 27, 2015, 11:05 PM
Aug 2015

that they could not enter to put it out because they were going to pull the plug on the operation. The fire chef refused to leave.

taking days to deliver water to the superdome. That enraged me! nt boston bean Aug 2015 #1
That did outrage me but I wasn't shocked malaise Aug 2015 #5
beyond the horror of that event virtualobserver Aug 2015 #154
the separation of men from their families - dixiegrrrrl Aug 2015 #170
Indeed - the Shock Doctrine had taken over with shades of racism malaise Aug 2015 #171
All tjose buses just sitting in water sand not picking up yeoman6987 Aug 2015 #90
+1 DashOneBravo Aug 2015 #176
yep! Liberal_in_LA Aug 2015 #148
I remember calling Republican congressmembers' staffs and pleading with them to Arugula Latte Aug 2015 #210
Fucking Barbara Bush's attitude gopiscrap Aug 2015 #2
She pissed me off malaise Aug 2015 #8
I can see you expected much of that treatment, but slaughtering those people even surprised you. randys1 Aug 2015 #152
Yep I loved that malaise Aug 2015 #155
OMG, first time I heard that too LOL randys1 Aug 2015 #156
Yes on this one yuiyoshida Aug 2015 #110
The indifference at the top. madamesilverspurs Aug 2015 #3
Hope you saw Rachel's exposure of Heck of a job Brownie in malaise Aug 2015 #4
Yeb! seems to be recycling an awful lot of his brother's associates and ideas.... Hekate Aug 2015 #73
Same here malaise Aug 2015 #108
Wait, BROWNIE made an appearance with Jeb, RECENTLY, proclaiming his proficiency with Katrina? randys1 Aug 2015 #153
i was disappointed rachel did not mention the murders on the bridge questionseverything Aug 2015 #181
I was going to say incompetence, but could be indifference rurallib Aug 2015 #10
Racists in Gretna sending police to turn desperate people trying to find help back across bridge. Hoyt Aug 2015 #6
That was pretty awful to me Generic Other Aug 2015 #137
Civilians who came with their boats and started rescuing people Warpy Aug 2015 #7
Excellent ones malaise Aug 2015 #11
One of the boatmen was a DUer, iirc, who kept posting here for the duration.... Hekate Aug 2015 #79
That was Swamp Rat, wasn't it? reflection Aug 2015 #157
Could've been Swampy. I miss him. nt Hekate Aug 2015 #186
Miss him big time malaise Aug 2015 #199
my outrage, too. you expressed it better than I could...I'd just be ranting in a rage... CTyankee Aug 2015 #136
The nursing home deaths nadine_mn Aug 2015 #9
Yes those nursing home deaths malaise Aug 2015 #13
My Sister's FIL NOLALady Aug 2015 #93
oh how awful. I am so sorry nadine_mn Aug 2015 #109
I was told by a National Guard member.. peace13 Aug 2015 #12
Wow! malaise Aug 2015 #15
My son was in college at the time. peace13 Aug 2015 #220
The young don't lie about suck shocking details malaise Aug 2015 #221
They were very poor so this is the best thing that could happen for them tularetom Aug 2015 #14
I don't think I can do it... ms liberty Aug 2015 #16
I remember it that way too. I could enumerate, but it would go on and on and on....nt Hekate Aug 2015 #74
So many things! Lydia Leftcoast Aug 2015 #17
You are 100% correct malaise Aug 2015 #20
Jesus. I didn't remember 4 and 5 Hekate Aug 2015 #86
And more on #4 Lydia Leftcoast Aug 2015 #205
that still 10 years later some of the worst hit black neighborhoods ARE STILL NOT BACK...... a kennedy Aug 2015 #18
But that can't be shocking malaise Aug 2015 #25
you're right, it's just sickening, and disgusting...... a kennedy Aug 2015 #53
I like to think that those who left those neighborhoods found better lives elsewhere. Ace Rothstein Aug 2015 #58
Gee, is that you, Babs? mnhtnbb Aug 2015 #60
Perfect malaise Aug 2015 #120
Lower Ninth Ward was a true community with interlocking families forever... Hekate Aug 2015 #89
Maybe some of them. NOLALady Aug 2015 #92
...^ that 840high Aug 2015 #80
The conditions in the Superdome. Separating children from their parents when being evacuated Dont call me Shirley Aug 2015 #19
NO shock with their lack of compassion malaise Aug 2015 #26
The utter incompetence--just unbelievable incompetence-- mnhtnbb Aug 2015 #21
That the government didn't swing into action right away. Starry Messenger Aug 2015 #22
That Republicans would be so overt in their callousness mythology Aug 2015 #23
The fact that the Bush White House wanted to use it as a teachable momment of "those people applegrove Aug 2015 #24
The blocking of the bridge to the next town to prevent Gloria Aug 2015 #27
My father at the time was an over the road truck driver and his company along with others hrmjustin Aug 2015 #28
The smell in the superdome. X_Digger Aug 2015 #29
I recall people at DU speculating that the Superdome would have bullwinkle428 Aug 2015 #35
I can't imagine that smell ever completely going away. X_Digger Aug 2015 #39
While the levees broke in New Orleans and the Mississippi coast was devastated. . . DinahMoeHum Aug 2015 #30
That shocked you - these are the men who lied a country into a war malaise Aug 2015 #34
The sheer indifference on Bush's part while part of the nation. . . DinahMoeHum Aug 2015 #42
You were right from 2000 malaise Aug 2015 #48
TRIGGER WARNING: DO NOT WATCH IF FROM NOLA: freshwest Aug 2015 #95
No - excellent post malaise Aug 2015 #107
I grew up in the South in the shadow of WW2. Nothing shocks me. All I felt was grief and outrage. freshwest Aug 2015 #139
I think I've just encountered the KingCharlemagne Aug 2015 #217
It was intentional. No surprise the bushes commit crimes against humanity, that's who they are. Dont call me Shirley Aug 2015 #135
+1000000 TubbersUK Aug 2015 #100
Refusing help from other countries catrose Aug 2015 #31
"Brownie's" bald-faced admission that they didn't have a fucking clue bullwinkle428 Aug 2015 #32
But we knew they didn't have a fucking clue in any sphere malaise Aug 2015 #41
The shooting and neglect, as already mentioned, were the most shocking, but valerief Aug 2015 #33
I will never forget that racist coverage of hungry people looking for food malaise Aug 2015 #46
Not to sound crass but nothing shocked me GusBob Aug 2015 #36
Wow malaise Aug 2015 #57
It was a very bad time for our family GusBob Aug 2015 #62
I'll check for the book next month next month when I'm in the US malaise Aug 2015 #162
The Army Corps of Engineers Aerows Aug 2015 #179
The death toll discrepency... catnhatnh Aug 2015 #37
I never believed the numbers we were given malaise Aug 2015 #51
No one that I know believes those numbers. NOLALady Aug 2015 #96
When I was in Mississippi, people were saying that they had friends who were missing Lydia Leftcoast Aug 2015 #206
Exactly. NOLALady Aug 2015 #211
One of the saddest experiences occurred when I was working in the medical tent Lydia Leftcoast Aug 2015 #214
30,000 people, bush said on his way out of office, that they pulled 30,000 people out. What he Dont call me Shirley Aug 2015 #138
What lies we were told. nt Hekate Aug 2015 #188
A couple of things, people was put on an overpass, the temperature was 103, in the hot sun, no water Thinkingabout Aug 2015 #38
Petty, but forcing people to abandon their pets footinmouth Aug 2015 #40
YES - I don't think it's petty at all - especially that little boy who had to leave his dog LiberalElite Aug 2015 #65
I was going to post the same. I would not have left my Yorkies behind. SammyWinstonJack Aug 2015 #166
The juxtaposition of what was said and what was shown on the news, convention center uppityperson Aug 2015 #43
The absolute callous and depraved disregard for human life Crunchy Frog Aug 2015 #44
What took so fricking long to get food and water to people in the Superdome? tanyev Aug 2015 #45
And then when they were evacuated, hey! how about those at the convention center? uppityperson Aug 2015 #49
Yes, that's where the people were outside in the heat adigal Aug 2015 #194
I live in WA and called Bill Gates as the richest person I knew and begged him to get involved uppityperson Aug 2015 #204
Everything shocked me at the time. But none of it shocks me now. I listened to the DR show kelliekat44 Aug 2015 #47
Good gawd. I can't pick out just one fucking thing. Ain't happening. lonestarnot Aug 2015 #50
Everytime I thought it couldn't get worse dflprincess Aug 2015 #52
That Hoover dsc Aug 2015 #54
And then there were the contaminated FEMA trailers used to house evacuees Art_from_Ark Aug 2015 #55
Thanks for that one malaise Aug 2015 #56
I would say the closing of the Crescent City Connection davidpdx Aug 2015 #59
Yep. Two different bridges. NOLALady Aug 2015 #97
I thought so davidpdx Aug 2015 #106
Just reading through this thread is depressing. Ace Rothstein Aug 2015 #61
I didn't get to see all of it Hydra Aug 2015 #63
When a fire broke out in the stadium and the nat guard told fire chief notadmblnd Aug 2015 #64
ALL of it. NanceGreggs Aug 2015 #66
Very well said malaise Aug 2015 #113
Shocking at the time, but true and necessary.... blue neen Aug 2015 #67
I read a non fiction book about Katrina that was astounding. vanlassie Aug 2015 #68
We bought Spike Lee's When the Levees Broke malaise Aug 2015 #69
All of the above and Condi Rice shopping for shoes in NYC. GreatCaesarsGhost Aug 2015 #70
The utter abandonment of US citizens by our government. Callous. Heartless. Hekate Aug 2015 #71
I'm only shocked that I wasn't really shocked by it. GoCubsGo Aug 2015 #72
And they only victim shame the poor black people that couldn't afford to leave maryellen99 Aug 2015 #75
Our country's leadership looked the other way when they were needed the most. lpbk2713 Aug 2015 #76
All of it. ALL of it truebluegreen Aug 2015 #77
The fact that it went from a major American city to Mogadishu almost literally overnight XemaSab Aug 2015 #78
Which isn't to deny the human tragedy, but point out "There but for the grace of God..." XemaSab Aug 2015 #101
so many things were awful KT2000 Aug 2015 #81
Not necessarily the thing that shocked me the most beltanefauve Aug 2015 #82
I remember watching that. Couldn't believe what I was seeing. SammyWinstonJack Aug 2015 #168
I was vacationing in Canada at the time, and I was totally shocked (and the Nay Aug 2015 #83
The coldness H2O Man Aug 2015 #84
I knew about his coldness after Iraq malaise Aug 2015 #124
There were many bad things, the shootings, corpses floating in the water, but one good thing which Uncle Joe Aug 2015 #85
"Heckuva" display... 3catwoman3 Aug 2015 #87
This message was self-deleted by its author nadinbrzezinski Aug 2015 #88
Dead bodies floating in the water. Boudica the Lyoness Aug 2015 #91
They separated young children NOLALady Aug 2015 #94
The depths to which society descended in the midst of a catastrophe. egduj Aug 2015 #98
Niothing shocks me about the US or Canada anymore. Both countries akbacchus_BC Aug 2015 #99
Most shocking to me was... Mr_Jefferson_24 Aug 2015 #102
An old woman in a wheelchair who died of thirst.. whathehell Aug 2015 #103
That was shocking indeed malaise Aug 2015 #114
Yes. Unimaginable. whathehell Aug 2015 #115
I was in Iraq in the Air Force at the time cpwm17 Aug 2015 #104
I believe you malaise Aug 2015 #125
My brother was a fireman and paramedic from Indiana who volunteered... Contrary1 Aug 2015 #105
Unfuggingbelievable malaise Aug 2015 #127
I remember fire fighters (Atlanta?) who's duty was a photo op with W underpants Aug 2015 #128
Sadly, nothing surprised me. FLPanhandle Aug 2015 #111
In Tx, people were stuck in traffic on highways, out of gas and Tx did nothing to help. Sunlei Aug 2015 #112
People drowning in their attics... Octafish Aug 2015 #116
This Rex Aug 2015 #117
Sickening indeed malaise Aug 2015 #159
They should! Every single last rotten one of them! Rex Aug 2015 #161
Not having electricity for well over a month Aerows Aug 2015 #118
That's awfully inconvenient but it didn't shock me malaise Aug 2015 #160
It's very hard without having running water Aerows Aug 2015 #174
We spent a lot of time at the beach malaise Aug 2015 #175
We were hit very hard Aerows Aug 2015 #177
The lack of response as people were stranded and dying deutsey Aug 2015 #119
The bridge. We learned about it after the fact. Still runs my blood cold. KittyWampus Aug 2015 #121
how third world we appeared. the utter inability to reach people to save them, for so long. nt seabeyond Aug 2015 #122
The sweetheart contracts to 1)Innovative Emergency Management and 2)Service Corp Int'l. Mc Mike Aug 2015 #123
Agreed, that's why I say it was planned genocide. Soon after, devastated areas along the coast were freshwest Aug 2015 #134
When our people are in charge, and a disaster strikes a very red area, Mc Mike Aug 2015 #196
Case in point: The Cilnton administration's response to the Grand Forks ND floods Lydia Leftcoast Aug 2015 #203
And our side isn't unhappy to see red parts of America helped. Mc Mike Aug 2015 #218
Thanks for expanding my knowledge. Sounds like 'fusion politics' or 'the 3rd Reconstruction': freshwest Aug 2015 #208
100% ^^^^^ EVERYONE READ THIS!. . .n/t annabanana Aug 2015 #145
This should be an OP malaise Aug 2015 #147
The complete incompetence of FEMA, which under Clinton mountain grammy Aug 2015 #126
Boggles the mind how a professionally run organization could be gutted in one Administration Hekate Aug 2015 #165
My old college roommate worked under Witt during the Clinton years. mountain grammy Aug 2015 #185
They politicized every 'social institution' ...FOR PROFIT malaise Aug 2015 #172
Yes, the money mountain grammy Aug 2015 #184
Great posts above. How about that it was FOX NEWS who made it a story underpants Aug 2015 #129
I heard that but we dn't have Fox by choice so we never saw their coverage malaise Aug 2015 #163
The disgusting display of open racism, especially the media reporting. KMOD Aug 2015 #130
And, don't forget how the media portrayed people taking things from stores in the aftermath. GoCubsGo Aug 2015 #169
Case in point: The photos in one of the posts up-thread Lydia Leftcoast Aug 2015 #207
But why was racism in the media shocking??? malaise Aug 2015 #189
I guess it was an eye-opening experience for me. KMOD Aug 2015 #192
That's true for many folks malaise Aug 2015 #198
This Country's RobinA Aug 2015 #131
It wasn't an inability to handle the crisis - it was a (careless?) decision not hedgehog Aug 2015 #150
Precisely malaise Aug 2015 #219
How much people who claim to care about NO do *not* care about every other big city in the US. Romulox Aug 2015 #132
The fact that many proudly proposed DonCoquixote Aug 2015 #133
Watching Americans beg for rescue/food/water in a major city in front of our eyes on national TV ariesgem Aug 2015 #140
A good thing happened, shocking I suppose... Eleanors38 Aug 2015 #141
Hearing a first hand story loyalsister Aug 2015 #142
That is shocking malaise Aug 2015 #146
There was power politics of the highest order during Katrina. Eleanors38 Aug 2015 #143
The lack of interest in rebuilding NOLA KamaAina Aug 2015 #144
Two things for me as well Tsiyu Aug 2015 #149
We here on DU knew it was going to be bad before the hurricane ever hit - hedgehog Aug 2015 #151
I remember the threads as if it were yesterday malaise Aug 2015 #164
Same reason he didn't see 9-11 coming. He's a cold-blooded sociopath who cares not... Hekate Aug 2015 #167
The genuine heartfelt empathy of the folks at the shelter in San Antonio. frustrated_lefty Aug 2015 #158
Nice post but empathy never shocks me malaise Aug 2015 #173
If the following timeline doesn't make you angry, you have a heart of stone Lydia Leftcoast Aug 2015 #178
How are they not in prison for malaise Aug 2015 #180
Not responding directly to your question but if you haven't seen Spike Lee's documentary . . . hatrack Aug 2015 #182
We bought that malaise Aug 2015 #191
the efforts of the people on police scanners alc Aug 2015 #183
I am never shocked locks Aug 2015 #187
The refusal for help from Cuba was cruel to me. Cuba has a akbacchus_BC Aug 2015 #190
People outside the Convention Center in the heat begging for water adigal Aug 2015 #193
It was sickening malaise Aug 2015 #202
Right at the beginning of this video it shows these people adigal Aug 2015 #195
So many but people on the roofs waiting to be rescued. DawgHouse Aug 2015 #197
Nothing. It was just "Business As Usual" for the PTB, and Zorra Aug 2015 #200
Bush, Brownie and Nagin! RKP5637 Aug 2015 #201
That I was told well beforehand this was likely Bradical79 Aug 2015 #209
And Katrina was a Cat 3 when it hit NOLA. NOLALady Aug 2015 #212
Zeitoun beating the crap out of his wife Syzygy321 Aug 2015 #213
That happened several years after Katrina Lydia Leftcoast Aug 2015 #215
The OP asked for post-Katrina shockers. Syzygy321 Aug 2015 #216
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