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Originally posted by gracies old man:
you must also compare the amount of looting, crime in general, lack of response by state and local authorities, and warning time leading up to both storms.
and, the midwest flooding is still in progress as I type.
You cannot make a comparison. New Orleans had a population of almost 600,000 people. Ninety percent of the people evacuated, meaning 50,000 - 60,000 people remained. That number alone is larger than 90% of the small towns in the midwest that were impacted. For example, the largerst city in Iowa, Des Moines, is not even 1/3 the size of New Orleans. Des Moines was not under a total evacuation order, and it did not achieve the level of flooding as New Orleans. In fact, the majority of the stores in Des Moines, and the rest of Iowa were not impacted at all (to date, only 40,000 people have been evacuated across the entire state).
Of the 60,000 people that remained in New Orleans, only about 1% were reported to "loot." If Iowa was a similar situation, which it is not, we would see the same percentage looting. The reason I say it is not is that there have been no reports in Iowa of any city with zero services for a week. In fact, in most cases, most cities still had stores open. And most people there had more time to prepare, due to the origin of the flooding being excessive snowfall last winter and rainfall this spring, not a hurricane that developed off shore less than seven days earlier.
It is nothing short of disturbing that those who attempt to compare, do so to suggest that one race is somehow inferior to another. This only reveals their true nature and shows how much help they, themselves really need.