Discovery Channel tonight....
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Well, my viewpoint on the show is that it - like so many others - CONTINUES to miss the big story. Yes, N.O. got a huge flood - but WHY is anyone surprised by that??!! The city is BELOW sea level. I just find it amazing that the overwhelming news resulting from Katrina centers so heavily on the issues in New Orleans. In my opinion, there are NO surprises there, and actually, nothing happened there that we didn't all expect to happen. It's happened before and it will happen again. Heck, if we're this interested in this story, just wait until a bonafide CAT 5 approaches the LA coastline from the SE and tracks just to the west of the city. But even in that case, the result will be exactly what we all expect.
The bigger story seems to me to be the issues on the MS Coast where homes and neighborhoods that are 30 feet ABOVE MSL were highly and quite unexpectedly affected by storm surge. Now, THAT'S news!!!!!!!!!!!!! I think the show gave about 15 seconds of air time to Biloxi and maybe twice that for the rest of the MS coast. And this doesn't even take into account the damage far inland from the coastline, the damage to Dauphin Island and Bayou La Batre, the 11-foot surge in Mobile Bay. Those issues weren't even mentioned.
Also, the show was entitled "Anatomy of a Hurricane". Unfortunately, all they showed was the same stuff we've seen time and again on CNN - miles of flooded homes - some of which (by the way) were quite upscale, indicating that the inhabitents had the ability to leave well beforehand, but "choose" not to. Why anyone would stay someplace that is below sea level during a landfalling cane is beyond me. I was hopeful that they would get more into the technical aspects of track changes, intensity, eye-wall effects, surge heights, rainfall levels, tornadoes, etc. Where was the "anatomy"?
While this may seem insensitive, I just believe what happened in New Orleans is exactly what any reasonable-thinking person should expect to happen. A city that's built under the level of the sea will flood. Especially one with all the documented levee problems they have there.
IMO, the bigger story in New Orleans would have been if it DIDN'T flood!!
The bigger story seems to me to be the issues on the MS Coast where homes and neighborhoods that are 30 feet ABOVE MSL were highly and quite unexpectedly affected by storm surge. Now, THAT'S news!!!!!!!!!!!!! I think the show gave about 15 seconds of air time to Biloxi and maybe twice that for the rest of the MS coast. And this doesn't even take into account the damage far inland from the coastline, the damage to Dauphin Island and Bayou La Batre, the 11-foot surge in Mobile Bay. Those issues weren't even mentioned.
Also, the show was entitled "Anatomy of a Hurricane". Unfortunately, all they showed was the same stuff we've seen time and again on CNN - miles of flooded homes - some of which (by the way) were quite upscale, indicating that the inhabitents had the ability to leave well beforehand, but "choose" not to. Why anyone would stay someplace that is below sea level during a landfalling cane is beyond me. I was hopeful that they would get more into the technical aspects of track changes, intensity, eye-wall effects, surge heights, rainfall levels, tornadoes, etc. Where was the "anatomy"?
While this may seem insensitive, I just believe what happened in New Orleans is exactly what any reasonable-thinking person should expect to happen. A city that's built under the level of the sea will flood. Especially one with all the documented levee problems they have there.
IMO, the bigger story in New Orleans would have been if it DIDN'T flood!!
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Ixolib:
Well said.
Pass, DH, Gulfport, Biloxi, Ocean Springs, etc. did not and will not recieve much coverage from the media because they are not high profile cities like NOLA.
The same thing happened here after Ivan. Orange Beach, Gulf Shores, Perdido were heavily damaged and all the media attention focused on Pensacola. Sure, we got spanked too, but the "little" towns don't usually get mentioned.
In Katrina's case, the "little" towns like Gulfport and Biloxi were mostly left out, not because they are little, but because they were overshadowed by the sensational and politicized aftermath of levee breaks in NOLA.
A shame.
Well said.
Pass, DH, Gulfport, Biloxi, Ocean Springs, etc. did not and will not recieve much coverage from the media because they are not high profile cities like NOLA.
The same thing happened here after Ivan. Orange Beach, Gulf Shores, Perdido were heavily damaged and all the media attention focused on Pensacola. Sure, we got spanked too, but the "little" towns don't usually get mentioned.
In Katrina's case, the "little" towns like Gulfport and Biloxi were mostly left out, not because they are little, but because they were overshadowed by the sensational and politicized aftermath of levee breaks in NOLA.
A shame.
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