Hawkeye's Blog

I have noticed a couple of posts on here making comparisons between the recent disasters in Middle-America with that of Katrina..While the comparisons are valid the FIRST thing that came to MY mind was how uneceesary it was to go THAT far..WHY bother when the SAME comparisons can be made using Katrina ALONE..We SEEM to have TWO Katrionas anyway so WHY not use THEM???

The Katrina as a whole and the Katrina of a VERY FEW in the city of New Orleans..

Below is what I MEAN by this…

Hurricane Katrina

It was the sixth-strongest Atlantic Hurricane ever recorded and the third-strongest hurricane on record that made landfall in the United States.

Hurricane Katrina weakened as it moved inland, but tropical-storm force gusts were recorded as far north as Fort Campbell,, Kentucky on August 30,, and the winds damaged trees in New York..The remnants of the storm brought high levels of rainfall to a wide swath of the Eastern United States and rain in excess of 2 inches fell in parts of 20 states.. A number of tornadoes associated with Katrina formed on August 30 and August 31 which caused minor damages in several regions. In total, 62 tornadoes formed in EIGHT states as a result of Katrina… The remnants of Katrina were absorbed by a new cyclone to it’s east across Pennsylvania.. This second cyclone continued north and affected Canada on August 31... In Ontario there were a few isolated reports of rain in excess of 4 inches and there were a few reports of damage from fallen trees.. FLOODING also occurred both in Ontario and Quebec,, cutting off a number of isolated villages in Quebec, particularly in the Cote-Nord region.

Although Hurricane Katrina made it’s ULTIMATE landfall well to the west,, Alabama and the Florida Pamhandle were both affected by tropical-storm force winds and a storm surge varying from 12 to 16 ft. around Mobile Bay with higher waves on top.. Sustained winds of 67 mph were recorded in Mobile,, Alabama,, and the storm surge there was approximately 12 feet.. The surge caused significant FLOODING several miles inland along Mobile Bay..Four tornadoes were also reported in Alabama.. Ships,, oil rigs,, boats and fishing piers were ALL washed ashore along Mobile Bay: the cargo ship M/V Caribbean Clipper and many fishing boats were grounded at Bayou La Batre..

Hurricane Katrina FIRST made landfall on April 25,, 2005 in SOUTH FLORIDA where it hit as a Category 1 hurricane,, with 80 mph winds.. Rainfall was heavy in places and exceeded 14 inches in Homestead Florida and a Storm Surge of 3 – 5 feet was measured in parts of Monroe County.. More than 1 million customers were left without electricity, and damage in Florida was estimated at between 1 and 2 billion dollars, with most of the damage coming from FLOODING and overturned trees. There were 14 FATALITIES reported in Florida as a result of Hurricane Katrina.

Katrina then caused severe destruction across the entire Mississippi Gulf coast and into Alabama,, as far as 100 miles from the storm's center as it FINALLY came ashore at the Louisiana/Mississippi state line..

The STORM SURGE and subsequent FLOODING caused severe damage along the Gulf Coast, DEVASTATING the Mississippi cities of Waveland,, Bay St. Louis,, Pass Christian,, Long Beach,, Gulfport,, Biloxi,, D’Iberville,, Ocean Springs,, Gautier,, Moss Point and Pasgagoula…

At least 1,836 people lost their lives in Hurricane Katrina and in the subsequent FLOODS,, making it the deadliest U.S. hurricane since the 1928 Okeechobee Hurricane..

The storm is estimated to have been responsible for $81.2 billion (2005 U.S. Dollars) in damage, making it the costliest natural disaster in U.S.History..

In Contrast, Levee breaches,, MORE so then the Hurricane itself,, in New Orleans caused a Considerable loss of life but by FAR Not the MAJORITY of the lives lost.... OF the 1836 total dead as a result of the Hurricane,, 700 bodies were recovered in New Orleans.. Slightly more than HALF of the bodies were found in the city’s poorer neighborhoods, with the REMAINDER scattered throughout middle-class and even some richer districts…So,, OF the Total killed by Katrina,, ONLY a little more then 350 of them can PRESUMABLY,, but NOT Necessarrilly,, be identified as Poor Blacks from the now INFAMOUS section Known as the 9th Ward..

A little more then 350 out of 700 IN new Orleans and 1836 TOTAL dead as a result of Katrina and it’s effects..

YET,, when you ask the average person,,"What do YOU think of when you hear the name,, Ketrina??" the Image MOST likely to come to MOST minds is that of the Flooding of New Orleans,, MOSTLY in the Black Sections ONLY,, the some 10,000 ESTIMATED refugees at the Superdome of which only SIX Died by NON-KATRINA-DIRECTLY RELATED causes or of those at the Convention Center, where ONLY four bodies were recovered. ALL were from "Natural Causes" except ONE..That ONE is believed to be the result of a homicide..

( a SUICIDE by OVERDOSE )

ALL this out of a New Orleans population estimated to be in excess of 750,000 residents of which MOST evacuated when THEY WERE TOLD TO.... ( Bear in mind that New Orleans was more then 50% Black Prior to Katrina so apparently there were appoximately some 350,000 Blacks who SOMEHOW managed to evacuate too)..

SO,, I ASK again..WHY is Hurricane KATRINA Most commonly known as a New Orleans’s BLACK-ONLY Catastrophy???

In MY opinion this is the case because of a RACIST,, EXPLOITIVE and SENSATIONALIZED News Coverage by an MSM that was SHAMELESS in it’s POLITICAL MOTIVATION…

The SAME MSM that,, without the SLIGHTEST evidence to back up it's claim,, reported some 10,000 dead bodies floating IN New Orleans..

The SAME MSM that IGNORED and/or DOWNPLAYED the responsibility and FAILURE of LOCAL DEMOCRAT Governments,, in POWER for some 60 years or better,, to handle this situation that THEY Knew was a possibility going back at least to 1965 and reflected in the words of the Mayor of New Orleans,,Ray Nagin,, when HE said,,"THIS is the Storm we've ALL been fearing ",,,

THE MSM had that chance and saw instead,,a chance to DEMONIZE a Republican Administration with it's highly selective and targeted reporting..

So WHY??

WHY do people think that Katrina was a Black-Only disaster??

People BELIEVE that because THAT is ALL that they’ve heard from DAY ONE…..