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New Orleans Spared by Faltering StormPosted on Sep 1, 2008
As it turned out, New Orleans dodged the full brunt of Hurricane Gustav, which had substantially weakened by the time it reached the Louisiana shoreline on Monday, but Hurricane Hanna still looms as a potential threat to the nation’s East Coast.
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By cyrena, September 2, 2008 at 2:31 pm #
You’re right here Fahrenheit, (the ‘allowed back’ and Nagan telling them to get their butts out). But, this is how they exploit the disaster capitalism that Naomi Klein so well presents. It’s a damned if you do, and damned if you don’t, when one is dealing with any attempts to second guess Mother Nature, and specifically when NO provisions are in place to deal with what can be accepted as inevitable. (Hurricanes). I haven’t checked yet, to see how Cuba faired, (receiving the larger brunt of it) but THEY have a system in place, which nearly always protects everyone. They move the people, (and their belongings) to higher ground upon approach, and when the event passes, they move them back. By now, it’s a perfected routine.
Not so here…and of course we know why.
Report thisBy Fahrenheit 451, September 2, 2008 at 7:56 am #
I wonder how many of the evacuees will not be allowed back. The government wasn’t totally successful at clearing some of the neighborhoods after Katrina and those pesky coloreds and poor white trash just came back and wouldn’t leave. So now maybe they got most of them out; after all, some of those properties are worth a fortune and the developers don’t want to have to pay too much. This way they get them for nothing along with extended tax deferments for their investment in the ‘hood. Nagan said this was the, “mother of all storms, so get your butts on out”. Hmmmmm?
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