Q&A: Why the American govt is taking so long to bring New Orleans back to pre Katrina days?

Question by Roshan A: Why the American govt is taking so long to bring New Orleans back to pre Katrina days?

I have recently read in Time magazine that it is due to the fact that
the city is situated below sea level and another Katrina could wipe out the city and the Govt is concentrating more on relocating its people is it true?

Best answer:

Answer by pilar
it is true that new orleans is below sea level, but if they were so worried about people’s welfare, why are they relocating the poor, and bringing the rich in.

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Is it altruism if the US gov’t helps victims of Katrina on their feet by restoring the public infrastructure?

Question by heeltap: Is it altruism if the US gov’t helps victims of Katrina on their feet by restoring the public infrastructure?

The above is the headline Q. This is the full-version Q: Is it altruism if the US gov’t helps victims of Katrina back on their feet by restoring the needed public infrastructure of the towns,cities ,counties, & parishes of LA, MS & AL? The people whose lives were impacted by Katrina & Rita & who were forced to leave their homes & businesses, want to go home but many can’t until the gov’t commits to & begins the effort to restore in earnest the public services necessary for people to commit to living temporarily in FEMA trailers while their homes are rebuilt. Public services from water to electricity to garbage/debris removal, police enforcement, public transportation, public housing, medical facilities, & education facilities that were all damaged or destroyed by Katrina & the Levee failures, are the necessary supporting infrastructure of daily life in any city. How can the gov’t at all levels, Federal,State & Local, across the Gulf Coast think they can pretend otherwise. TWH 08282006
Wikipedia gives this definition for the word: “Altruism is an ethical doctrine that holds that individuals have an ethical obligation to help, serve, or benefit others, if necessary at the sacrifice of self interest. Auguste Comte’s version of altruism calls for living for the sake of others. One who holds to either of these ethics is known as an “altruist.”

The ethical doctrine of altruism has also been called the ethic of altruism, moralistic altruism, and ethical altruism.

Best answer:

Answer by toe poe gee gee oh
It is not altruistic of the government for the people by the people…paid for by your tax dollars. The task of rebuilding is going to take up to ten years and the people need thier homes rebuilt today. The damage is far to extensive, to fix in such a short time.

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Resilience and Opportunity: Lessons from the US Gulf Coast after Katrina and Rita

Since Katrina and the levee failures devastated New Orleans and the Gulf Coast in 2005, the world has witnessed catastrophic earthquakes in Haiti, China and New Zealand, floods in Pakistan, and the tsunami that struck Japan. Closer to home, tornados destroyed much of Tuscaloosa, Alabama and Joplin, Missouri. These large–scale disasters place new urgency on understanding the lessons learned post–Katrina. Dr. Allison Plyer, editor of “Resilience and Opportunity,” and several contributing scholars introduce this new book from Brookings Institution Press.

Q&A: Which of the following statements about Hurricane Katrina is false?

Question by Cawlsing: Which of the following statements about Hurricane Katrina is false?

a. New Orleans’s natural defenses (marshland and barrier islands) to hurricane damage have been dwindling in recent years.

b. About 50% of residents of New Orleans evacuated before Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans.

c. There were many predictions of the high risk of hurricanes to New Orleans before Hurricane Katrina occurred.

d. Hurricane Katrina hit land near New Orleans as a Category 3 hurricane and caused widespread flooding in New Orleans due to levee failure, even though the levees were designed to withstand a Category 3 hurricane.

Best answer:

Answer by pitademon2000
B is false

everyone knew before Katrina that the barrier islands and marshes were being eroded and drying up.

yes many predictions were made before Katrina about what would happen if a category 3 or higher hurricane hit. They even got federal dollars to use to create evacuation plans for New Orleans….they used that money to instead build the Lake Pontchartrain causeway (real good use huh?). So the evacuation plan was never really made…which explains my answer being B

Yes it made landfall as a Category 3, though it was at one point a category 5. It still had a heck of a surge that toppled the levees and barriers. There was not enough time for the water to settle back down before it hit.

NOLA GUY: I actually read the papers.

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Why did John McCain vote against the investigation (x2) of the levee failures during Hurricane Katrina?

Question by ms_wheedler: Why did John McCain vote against the investigation (x2) of the levee failures during Hurricane Katrina?

Best answer:

Answer by netjr
Because it was a democrat witch hunt on Republican administrations that didn’t want to keep wasting money in New Orleans. Fact was the money was given to New Orleans in the 60’s and the squandered it on unions but the investigation would have never gotten that “deep.”

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