Now, throughout this post. I will show what the national news showed for maybe 30 seconds, to let you know exactly how much worse Katrina was in the places it hit, other than a flood in New Orleans. Unfortunately, I couldn't find the before and after video. But our owner Mike Check has been to Mississippi's coast and he can tell you how nice it was.
1st off let me get this fact out the way. Because alot of people are mis-guided. And I want to make this clear...
THE ONLY THING THAT HIT NEW ORLEANS WAS RAIN! KATRINA TURNED AWAY FROM NEW ORLEANS AND WENT INTO MISSISSIPPI! THE FLOOD THAT HAPPENED IN NEW ORLEANS WAS A MAN MADE PROBLEM, NOT A NATURAL DISSASTER!
Now, that I have that out of the way, let me deluge off into more facts, that the news didn't show you. A brief history lesson. Mississippi has two cities on the coastal line called Biloxi and Gulfport. These two cities stretch of casinos, hotels, and shops along the beach made it look like a small Atlanic City NJ, or a small Miami strip. It truly was nice. Yes I know alot of you think we don't have electricity in Mississippi or phone lines, but we do, and these two cities visually shitted on alot of these big major cities visually. Anyway. That was before Katrina, after Katrina it was absolutely destroyed. Every nice casino, every nice hotel, every nice mansion, even the mall were pounded to shit after Katrina. While the city of New Orleans got all the national attention, the real damage was NOT in New FUCKIN ORLEANS! 80% of that city was flooded, but ironically the tourist sites other than the super-down stayed completely dry. As yall saw on the news, New Orleans' bridges were still in tact. Not the case in my state.
Another brief history lesson. New Orleans is made like a bowl, with levees surrounding the bowl. Now 80% of this bowl was full, you may be thinking, the top of the city had to be the 20%. No.. The famous Bourbon Street and the French Quarters are only acouple of blocks away from the Super Dome.. That's part of that 20% that wasn't flooded. That part wasn't touched. Kinda makes you wonder, how the middle part of the bowl stayed dry. I'm pretty sure you've all had a bowl of cereal before, and it all went to the bottom and filled up. Not the case in N.O., it somehow was dry in the middle. (Makes you question the gov't doesn't it?)
Anyway. The tides that Katrina created were massive and almost flooded Gulfport and Biloxi completely. A particular casino "The Grand Casino" were literally boats that sat on the water. They were 3 or 4 stories high, and about 1 1/2 or 2 football Fields long.
Katrina pushed one of the boats into the highway, the other into the mall's parking lot. Sounds alot more devastating that alot of rain, which is what everybody got. Also, people from here to about 2 hours north of the coastal line in Mississippi, part of Louisiana and Alabama had no power. Mainly Mississippi. While New Orleans residents got help from everybody it seemed, and got bus rides to Houston. Thousands of people down in Mississippi are without power, without gas, without homes, and all the got was a lousy Bush speech about "this will become an even greater coast." Mississippi was over-looked so bad by the Bush administration, that even the republicans in office in the state were pissed at him. At LEAST New Orleans people were able to get rides out. While my people were stuck, with casinos blocking highways, and nobody comin' to help but our own. New Orleans got national help. Mississippi got their power turned back on by Mississippi power. New Orleans residents got alotta money and food stamp cards from Fema. All we got were food stamp cards and insurance companies that re-nigged on their word. In a nut-shell. We only got a FRACTION of the good things New Orleans got, and got EVERYTHING and then some of the worse part. My point of this being when Gustav REALLY hits Louisina head on, you will see the real difference between the two (even though Gustav is abit stronger.) The media totally ignored Mississippi. Kanye West was wrong, George Bush doesn't care about people thats not in his tax bracket. Not just black people! ( Its a whole different theory going into the New Orleans people gettin' shipped away deal. But that's a different discussion. It also ties into why the French Quarters remained dry.)
Katrina pushed one of the boats into the highway, the other into the mall's parking lot. Sounds alot more devastating that alot of rain, which is what everybody got. Also, people from here to about 2 hours north of the coastal line in Mississippi, part of Louisiana and Alabama had no power. Mainly Mississippi. While New Orleans residents got help from everybody it seemed, and got bus rides to Houston. Thousands of people down in Mississippi are without power, without gas, without homes, and all the got was a lousy Bush speech about "this will become an even greater coast." Mississippi was over-looked so bad by the Bush administration, that even the republicans in office in the state were pissed at him. At LEAST New Orleans people were able to get rides out. While my people were stuck, with casinos blocking highways, and nobody comin' to help but our own. New Orleans got national help. Mississippi got their power turned back on by Mississippi power. New Orleans residents got alotta money and food stamp cards from Fema. All we got were food stamp cards and insurance companies that re-nigged on their word. In a nut-shell. We only got a FRACTION of the good things New Orleans got, and got EVERYTHING and then some of the worse part. My point of this being when Gustav REALLY hits Louisina head on, you will see the real difference between the two (even though Gustav is abit stronger.) The media totally ignored Mississippi. Kanye West was wrong, George Bush doesn't care about people thats not in his tax bracket. Not just black people! ( Its a whole different theory going into the New Orleans people gettin' shipped away deal. But that's a different discussion. It also ties into why the French Quarters remained dry.)
I'm Just filling in holes that the media failed to cover, because it's their fault they kept the average US citizen not in the Katrina area ignorant to the facts. Katrina was MUCH worse than a big ass flood in New Orleans like the media wants you to believe. The state of MS lost 90mil dollars in tax dollars.
They build navy ships off the coast of Biloxi, and there's an army base about 30 minutes north of the city, so save your "Mississippi isn't important as New Orleans" bullshit. So yea, I get heated whenever its brought up or when I think about it. The media, and for people who live / lived in New Orleans that only believe its about them. And I basically saw this in 3rd person because at the time I was in Baton Rouge, LA goin' to schoo' while Katrina was goin' out. So I got to keep up with the news while I couldn't keep up with my parents and friends that were back in Mississippi. Yes, they fucked over people in New Orleans. But my state were fucked over by the government and stomped in the ground by mother nature. Luckily, Gustav has gotten alil' weaker over-night, but you'll still see what a hurricane really does. I'm outta Baton Rouge, so good luck, God bless, n be safe to all yall that's in harms way.
They build navy ships off the coast of Biloxi, and there's an army base about 30 minutes north of the city, so save your "Mississippi isn't important as New Orleans" bullshit. So yea, I get heated whenever its brought up or when I think about it. The media, and for people who live / lived in New Orleans that only believe its about them. And I basically saw this in 3rd person because at the time I was in Baton Rouge, LA goin' to schoo' while Katrina was goin' out. So I got to keep up with the news while I couldn't keep up with my parents and friends that were back in Mississippi. Yes, they fucked over people in New Orleans. But my state were fucked over by the government and stomped in the ground by mother nature. Luckily, Gustav has gotten alil' weaker over-night, but you'll still see what a hurricane really does. I'm outta Baton Rouge, so good luck, God bless, n be safe to all yall that's in harms way.
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