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[imported_elp6n]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: boney</div><div class="ubbcode-body">They chose to conscientiously live beneath sea level, to ignore the warnings to evacuate the city, so yes, I think they probably deserved it. I believe a reaction exists for every possible action. I feel deep sorrow for them, but the handwriting was on the wall, and they chose to ignore it.`</div></div>
Add to that an enormous number of them chose not to insure against flood (houses built before Federal Flood program was mandated).

I'm not saying anyone deserved that kind of catastophy, I'm saying that it's a "bang head against wall" kind of logic...

[plantsman]

Agreed, but depends on how one defines deserve - certainly, they don't deserve it for some sin, ethnicity, economic positioning, They could have avoided it. But as someone posted, their political leadership, good ol' Ray, and his inept staff also let thm down. But I feel they do deserve it as a consequence of their own choices and actions. A better word for deserved may be consequential, I don't know.

[imported_gracie]

Might be easier said than done regarding their choice to leave the New Orleans area. I lived in central Louisiana for a few years and experienced a hurricane in 1972; my family and I visited New Orleans and the surrounding area on several occasions. Perhaps the people who lived there when Katrina hit in 2005 or continue to live there didn't or don't have the monetary means to live elsewhere. I'm sure that they were and are aware of the risk of hurricanes where they live and would most likely want to avoid a repeat of Katrina. Do they deserve to suffer because,as some people say they "choose" to continue living there? For many people it might not be a choice to leave the area and live elsewhere. Just my thoughts.

[imported_burrhead]

The only good thing that ever happened in New Orleans is when Fats Domino was rescued.

[R13]

Was it their fault too that those levees broke?

[buck73]

I guess the children that died deserved it too!
People out in the midwest deserve to get mowed down by a tornado because they live in tornado alley.

[MikeJones]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: gracie</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Might be easier said than done regarding their choice to leave the New Orleans area. I lived in central Louisiana for a few years and experienced a hurricane in 1972; my family and I visited New Orleans and the surrounding area on several occasions. Perhaps the people who lived there when Katrina hit in 2005 or continue to live there didn't or don't have the monetary means to live elsewhere. I'm sure that they were and are aware of the risk of hurricanes where they live and would most likely want to avoid a repeat of Katrina. Do they deserve to suffer because,as some people say they "choose" to continue living there? For many people it might not be a choice to leave the area and live elsewhere. Just my thoughts.




















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Well If one can make it from guatemala or any other below the border country to anywhere USA. IM sure they could have moved.

[imported_gracie]

Glad you were fortunate enough to have had the means to do so. Not all people are.

[1inStripes]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: raider13</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Was it their fault too that those levees broke? </div></div>


Actually, it sort of was their fault. They voted for crap mayors that used money ear marked for levee repair for other uses.

[imported_gracie]

I misread your response--sorry. Anyway, you were referring to others, not yourself. However, those are just my thoughts on believing that not all people have the means to just pick up and leave their homes and find other places to live.