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tropical-punch 
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Posted: Feb 03 2013 at 11:46am |
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How do you feel when you hear people say that N.O. residents had plenty of time to evacuate and they knew the hurricane was coming. I always give a side eye. Of course I've only heard white people say this.
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HowardAlumAKA
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Posted: Feb 03 2013 at 11:48am |
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Did they really have enough time? If Im being told to leave, I'm leaving. Im packing up as much as I can take with me and staying with relatives elsewhere.
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Posted: Feb 03 2013 at 11:49am |
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What brought this question about?
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SoutherNtellect
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Posted: Feb 03 2013 at 11:50am |
i don't have time for people who weren't in New Orleans at the time but still feel the need to speak about Katrina. regardless of whether we knew a hurricane was coming, NO ONE knew the levees were going to break and that's all that matters.
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Posted: Feb 03 2013 at 11:52am |
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I think whoever thought it was a good idea to build a city in a bowl is kinda dense.
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Posted: Feb 03 2013 at 11:53am |
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I don't think anything of it, because I don't know how much time they actually had.
But I know it's hard for people to pack up and leave your physical life just like that, not knowing if things would still be there when you return. I wonder about where those people who had to relocate are now, and if their lives have stabilized, and how they feel about everything. I also think about the people who lost their lives. It's really sad.
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Posted: Feb 03 2013 at 11:54am |
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Y'all watched When the levees Broke"?
I would love to here from the NO members about their experience during that time
It's fitting for the day
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Posted: Feb 03 2013 at 11:55am |
 keelolo1 wrote:
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someone said it last week and I remembered it.
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Posted: Feb 03 2013 at 11:59am |
most the people who didnt evacuate didnt have enough money to do so. evacuating is expensive!
and we had so many false alarms that people didnt take it seriously i cant tell you how many times they had mandatory evacuations and not even the power went out
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Posted: Feb 03 2013 at 12:00pm |
Derri wrote:
I don't think anything of it, because I don't know how much time they actually had.
But I know it's hard for people to pack up and leave your physical life just like that, not knowing if things would still be there when you return. I wonder about where those people who had to relocate are now, and if their lives have stabilized, and how they feel about everything. I also think about the people who lost their lives. It's really sad.
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I packed a weekend's worth of clothes. We all thought the storm would pass through, mess some things up, flood a few streets, and we'd be back in our rainboots going to class the next week. same way i'd done for the hurricane that passed it's little self through 2 months before
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