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No doubt the devastation caused by Katrina was much more severe...a cat 4 storm with a 25+ foot storm surge is brutal. And yes, crews are already working to restore power...while for days after Katrina, simple survival was a challenge. Not just the inconvenience of no power. Just the same...looting big screen TVs, gaming systems and $200 sneakers is hardly a "means of survival".
I understand that, but were you there?
You know what left the stores first? Food, water, and supplies.
Then when the media got word, all that stuff was already gone. The people who went in looking for survival goods, stupidly, then turned to unneeded items.
But the point was made, no looting this time, as to compare this to Katrina. One thing, there has been looting which is just damned stupid after a cat 1, and another, it wasn't Katrina.
The opening poster is saying that new York's response to a lesser storm, with less looting is somehow in contrast to an entire three state region without power for weeks and looting to survive that.
I am simply pointing out, that the cat 4 storm of Katrina, which was similarly large with much higher winds and 30+ feet of storm surge, was a lot worse and looting was used by many as a means of survival.
I am simply pointing out, that the cat 4 storm of Katrina, which was similarly large with much higher winds and 30+ feet of storm surge, was a lot worse and looting was used by many as a means of survival.
When looting is done by Democratic Congresscritters it is also a means of survival - they hope to survive politically by redistributing what they acquire.
"Water that had risen six feet high hadn't completely drained away from the streets of Coney Island in Brooklyn, N.Y., yet looters had already rifled through the remains of vulnerable shops on Mermaid Avenue."
"New York City Police arrested 13 people for crimes that included looting in Sandy's aftermath, law-enforcement officials said Tuesday. Of the 13 confirmed arrests after the storm, most took place in areas of Brooklyn and Queens where police precincts had to be evacuated due to flooding."
"Hurricane Sandy brought out the worst yesterday in some sleazy New Yorkers, who looted stores and homes across the city. Some posed as Con Ed workers to dupe their victims."
Too bad the media doesn't tell you WHY some people won't evacuate. It's the animals that don't need much to go Lord of The Flies on a community and destroy what other have that makes people stay with their property.
You two seem to be enjoying playing the race card. Stay classy.
Actually, they are mocking a nutty group of extremist types that actually do make comments like that.
If you want to chide them for not putting the extent of comments like that in context then so be it but they aren't the ones making those comments originally.
Most of the damage was in white, upper middle class towns. White, upper middle class people do not loot.
Compare this to Katrina.
Wealthier people tend to be less inclined to loot than poorer people because they tend to have things like food, water etc etc etc. on hand. The looters caught up in Katrina were poorer and less educated.
If one were to understand statistical correlation, you would grasp that blacks tend to be poorer etc. and it is not skin color driving people to loot.
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