(08-29-2018 07:38 PM)TigerBlue4Ever Wrote:  I remember it well. I was sent down as part of a BellSouth crew. I spent almost 6 weeks up and down the coast from Gulfport to Biloxi to Hattiesburg and dozens of little towns in between. It was a sobering experience seeing nothing but slabs and foundations as far down the highway as you could see where beautiful old homes had once sat in Biloxi, an entire barge lifted and deposited on the opposite side of 90, blocks and blocks of detritus deposited in trees, buildings blown out and blown apart like a bomb had gone off. Some of those Mississippi towns got slammed hard. Crazy...

Years later there were just slabs in Mississippi. You didn't hear as much about them.

(08-30-2018 10:50 PM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  

(08-30-2018 10:01 PM)Jjoey52 Wrote:  

(08-30-2018 07:39 PM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  

(08-30-2018 01:26 PM)GeminiCoog Wrote:  I'm glad Nawlins is getting back on its feet. I just wish the political back and forth between Dem Louisiana Governor Kathleen Blanco, Dem New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin, and GWB never happened.

GWB should have federalized the national guard and used it to get everyone out of town ahead of time. "Shelter in place," might have been the dumbest idea in the history of earth.

Mayor Nagin was a total idiot, screws things up royally, then tries to blame Bush.
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I think Blanco screwed things up more than Nagin, based upon comments of some New Orleans friends, but neither performed admirably or even capably.

Blanco was worst. She had National Guard virutally right next door to the Superdome and they were ordered to do nothing. She allowed sheriffs to turn people back across the bridge.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Charley

Florida did fine with a Bush instead of a Blanco. And it was a worse hurricane.