Iowa floods will it get out of control like New Orleans ?

Question

Iowa floods will it get out of control like New Orleans ?

Answer 1

HA!, no.  iowa is about 96% white. those people will take care of themselves.  they will clean it up and build it back and not resort to violence/begging/handouts.

Answer 2

I doubt it. This question actually raises another interesting question that no one in the news media seems willing to touch: why was there such a big difference between the public reaction to Katrina and the public reaction to the flooding in Iowa? In the first case you had looting and other thievery, assaults, battery, and even murder, etc., while in Iowa the people seem to have just gotten up and left peacefully...

Answer 3

I hope so; those self-righteous so called MiddleAmerican Value Iowans deserve what they are reaping in my opinion;

first they trash democracy by holding caucuses and fixating on an unelectable candidate and then their self-righteous holier than thou christianity tell the world that New Orleaneans deserve what they are getting because of their "unchristian" ways!

I only hope all of the precincts are washed completely away and they have no way to vote in November

Answer 4

Like, when will Bush be blamed for this too?  That kind of out of control?

Answer 5

The flooding was much deeper in New Orleans.  People were trapped and help didn't even arrive in the city until 3 days later.  There was no communication within the area and many people died before they were discovered to be in the convention center.  People died of dehydration and lack of medication.  The heat was overwhelming.  Sections of the city had to be pumped out to get the water out.

Homeland Security bungled the job because it was their first test since FEMA was changed after 911.  President Bush actually eventually accepted responsibility for the poor handling of the crisis in N.O.  I think they have learned some lessons since then.

Answer 6

Iowans have a better work ethic. Besides they aren't among the blame others first network.

Answer 7

I'm from iowa and it already is. I know places where there are blocks of homes and businesses that are flooded in the basement and the main level is 4 feet high with water.

We aren't receiving much help either but were used to it in iowa.. everyone kinda forgets about us lol.

Luckily my parents are doing ok and have welbuilt houses.

And you guys are correct... we will not blame Bush for it because that's just ignorant. We will band together and help eachother out.. same as farm equipment.. farming... raising livestock etc.

Answer 8

I hope not, I feel so bad for the people living there and everywhere the flooding is also bad in Illinois.

Answer 9

What do you mean? Will it. It is already out of control. Lets hope FEMA does a better job there than it did in New Orleans.

Answer 10

Let's hope so. I love it when mother nature kicks mankinds asss. I hope good old mother Earth soon kicks up a shitstorm of continuous natural disasters of every kind to wipe the disease known as human off the face of this planet so she can begin to heal herself from this virus.

Answer to Max, because Iowa is full of white people and New Orleans was full of Black people living on benefits waiting for the government to spoonfeed their fat asses their next meal. Even the Black police officers were looting the Walmart there. Lead by example.

Answer 11

no it won't even be close, New Orleans sat with their hands out waiting for the government to tell them what to do and provide the money to do it. that is what happens when you have people who live most if not all of their lives on  government  hand outs. most people in Iowa are way more self reliant than people in New Orleans.

Answer 12

Do you mean when FEMA moved in and started violating peoples civil liberties. Watch out for FEMA. Don't let them in.

Answer 13

OK. Many, many people in New Orleans ARE working and ARE helping each other. Please don't let idiots who have never been here lead you to believe otherwise.

Answer 14

You are comparing apples and oranges.

The main difference is the scope of the disaster. Like with the California fires last year, the power of TV is to focus on a small area and make the viewer think everywhere is like that. In reality, the flooding in the mid-west is a medium-small disaster (like the California fires). Comparing the event with Katrina is comparing a parking-lot fender-bender with a head-on collision at high speeds.

The flooding in the mid-west is actually affecting only a small area and relatively few people have had their lives disturbed. So far, about 5000 homes are threatened and 25,000 people have had to evacuate. One death has been reported.

Katrina was the worst natural disaster to ever strike the USA. It devastated an area of 90,000 square miles (larger than Great Britain), killed 1800 people, displaced more than 2,000,000 people for months, made 500,000 of us long-term homeless, and destroyed 225,000 buildings. The damage to the City of New Orleans alone is estimated at $200 Billion, and NOLA is only a fraction of the devastated area.

To compare with the CA fires in 2007 (which is a completed disaster), about 700 square miles were affected, 7 deaths were reported, 1000 buildings burned, 3000 to 5000 people were made homeless, and the damage was estimated at $1 Billion.

Basic services in the mid-west have not been disrupted and the flooded areas are not isolated from the rest of the world by the event. It was the same last year in CA.

Katrina cut all communications to the devastated areas for more than a week and rendered state & local government across southeatern Louisiana and southern Mississippi almost incapable of functioning. On top of that was the incompetence of Governor "Blank Stare" Blanco and Mayor "Crazy Ray" Nagin (both are Democrats).

Note that news media reports of civil disorder in New Orleans were grossly exaggerated. For example, there were "reports" of violence inside the Superdome at the time In reality, there were NO murders in the Dome, NO babies were raped, and there were NO gun battles (all were high-profile news stories at the time). The same was true at the Convention Center. There was plenty of bad news to go around and I don't know why the media felt a need to make it up.

Answer 15

They seem to be working together, helping each other as a community..not waiting for someone to help them, like the gov't., so no, it won't be anything like New Orleans.

BTW, I enjoyed a wonder week in New Orleans in May, I've been there dozens of times, it's still my favorite city.  BUT..a certain % there have left many in the rest of the country with a negative view..you know who & you know why.