re: Unreleased footage of hurricane Katrina from New Orleans fire department documentary

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Did they just not show them? Are there not as many "swamp boats" as I thought?

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Meh.
Most of the swamp boats in the state are west of the Nola.

A neighbor and I attempted to help rescue folks maybe 5 days post land-fall. We didn’t get past Destrehan before the national guard turned us around. The boat was loaded with only a case of water and a pistol. Looking back, with all the chaos unfolding, it may have been for the best.

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I thought, "Lousiana has more airboats than they do people. The airboats will be out in full force performing rescues."

Then when we watched the news I saw very few people in boats out trying to help.

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Not nearly as many airboats here as you think. Couple that with access to the city was virtually nil until water receded.

The big failure was at the City and State level prior to the storm - nearly 1000 school buses that were left in the city could have been used for evacuating. There were more than enough resources available prior to the storm to get nearly everyone out that had the means the lack of mobilization and execution by the Mayor and Governor is perhaps the biggest failure of the democratic party placed upon it's people other than LBJ and the gun grab that took place in the after math. People should have gone to prison over that.


Anyone that stayed in NOLA on their own free will chose to ignore the risks, which everyone well knew and chose to ignore - it happened in 1965(just no media coverage), 1915, 1893 1856 and it will happen again. It would have taken far less effort to get people out prior to the storm that it did after.

Perhaps the many false alarms lulled people to sleep but if you play games with mother nature long enough she will win.