pfffffffffffft. I realize it's not diverse enough an area (voting demographics!) to qualify as a national tragedy/all Dubya's fault/time for a change™, but the coast was hit just as hard, and in many places harder than, New Orleans. And people still need help there. And they're still getting a lot less of it in comparison to New Orleans. It's really sad. My brother was there helping out over the summer, I'll most likely be going back with him this summer... it's really awful how much devastation and loss there was down there, and how little attention these people are getting.
no, Sammitch, overall the MS Gulf Coast (and Alabama, too. Mobile was hit pretty hard, I know) was hit much harder than nola. the coast was pretty much wiped out (which if you were down here as you said, you would've seen some of. and I'm not saying you weren't. don't get the wrong idea.), whereas nola was mostly avoided by the hurricane.
all the damage in nola was from the breaking levees. it may seem like pedantery, but it's actually an important point to make given the sensationalistic manner in which so many news outlets have handled the story and in which so many *uninvolved individuals* have attempted to politicize the disaster, rather than spending their time doing something useful such as attempting to aid recovery.
