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John in Covina said:
Exactly. They were simply grifters looking for a payoff. :rage:
regards,
J
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katrina scam?
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Exactly. They were simply grifters looking for a payoff. :rage:
regards,
J
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I just think it's sad that because of scam artists in this day and age people aren't inclined to trust anyone. What does it say about society if people stop giving to charity because they think it'll be used unscrupulously? (side note: just looked that word up to make sure I spelled it right and am amazed that I actually did.) Unfortunately, there will always be scammers ready to take advantage of any situation that comes along such as Katrina. All I can say is that I hope that honest people stay honest and everyone should use their best judgement and have a little faith in other people. That is, afterall, what charity is all about. Having faith in humanity and helping people in need.
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New Orleans and Katrina
What is commonly referred to as "Katrina" is actually two separate events that occurred close together, one casused by the other. The actual hurricane, Katrina, did not cause the majority of the destruction here in New Orleans. What it did do, however, was to weaken the levees along the outfall canals leading from the Pumping Stations to Lake Ponchartrain, which eventually failed at their weakest points and allowed the lake to reclaim vast areas that the city had expanded into after they were drained and developed into subdivisions over the decades.
The Pumping Stations were built in the late 1800s/early 1900s at the edge of what was then the inhabited city, and drained the city by pumping collected water into the surrounding swamps that separated the city from the lake.
Early maps, prior to the expansions of the 20th century, look suspiciously like current maps of the areas that did not suffer great flood damage.
What caught people un-prepared were the levee breaks. Lots of folks made it through the hurricane proper, with their 2 or 3 day supply of goods, only to be inundated by the unforseen and unexpected levee failures.
Paisley said:
What is commonly referred to as "Katrina" is actually two separate events that occurred close together, one casused by the other. The actual hurricane, Katrina, did not cause the majority of the destruction here in New Orleans. What it did do, however, was to weaken the levees along the outfall canals leading from the Pumping Stations to Lake Ponchartrain, which eventually failed at their weakest points and allowed the lake to reclaim vast areas that the city had expanded into after they were drained and developed into subdivisions over the decades.
The Pumping Stations were built in the late 1800s/early 1900s at the edge of what was then the inhabited city, and drained the city by pumping collected water into the surrounding swamps that separated the city from the lake.
Early maps, prior to the expansions of the 20th century, look suspiciously like current maps of the areas that did not suffer great flood damage.
What caught people un-prepared were the levee breaks. Lots of folks made it through the hurricane proper, with their 2 or 3 day supply of goods, only to be inundated by the unforseen and unexpected levee failures.
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We were darned lucky to no longer be living in the New Orleans area anymore when Katrina hit. My uncle was on the Northshore* (where we used to live 10 years ago) and didn't even know Katrina was coming. My uncle got a call when Katrina was coming "Hey hadn't you heard that a Category 5 hurricane is coming towards New Orleans?" "Talk to you later... *click*"
The Northshore sustained the more typical hurricane damage -- fallen pine trees, broken power lines, trees on houses, flooded yards, wrecked trailer parks, that sort of stuff but it didn't depend on a levee system to stay dry -- so you didn't have the MASSIVE flooding on the Northshore as you did in New Orleans.
*Northshore is the St. Tammany Parish area to the North of Lake Pontchartrain, New Orleans is south of it.
The Northshore sustained the more typical hurricane damage -- fallen pine trees, broken power lines, trees on houses, flooded yards, wrecked trailer parks, that sort of stuff but it didn't depend on a levee system to stay dry -- so you didn't have the MASSIVE flooding on the Northshore as you did in New Orleans.
*Northshore is the St. Tammany Parish area to the North of Lake Pontchartrain, New Orleans is south of it.
