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As of June 19, 2008

* Quick Summary for Midwest Flood (in black):
# Quick Summary for Katrina Flood (in blue)

* IOWA: Two dozen people killed and 148 injured
# KATRINA: More than 1,600 people killed

* IOWA: Approximately 40,000 people evacuated from homes
# KATRINA: Approximately 500,000 people evacuated from homes (New Orleans only)

* IOWA: Cedar River has flooded more than 4,000 homes
# KATRINA: Destroyed more than 200,000 Gulf Coast homes

* IOWA: Damage costs in Cedar Rapids estimated at over $1.5 Billion
# KATRINA: Insured property damage at $25.3 billion

So, if anyone still wants to remain ignorant and make stupid comparisons between the two, feel free to do so!
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Originally posted by OneWorld1974:
As of June 19, 2008

* Quick Summary for Midwest Flood (in black):
# Quick Summary for Katrina Flood (in blue)

* IOWA: Two dozen people killed and 148 injured
# KATRINA: More than 1,600 people killed

* IOWA: Approximately 40,000 people evacuated from homes
# KATRINA: Approximately 500,000 people evacuated from homes (New Orleans only)

* IOWA: Cedar River has flooded more than 4,000 homes
# KATRINA: Destroyed more than 200,000 Gulf Coast homes

* IOWA: Damage costs in Cedar Rapids estimated at over $1.5 Billion
# KATRINA: Insured property damage at $25.3 billion

So, if anyone still wants to remain ignorant and make stupid comparisons between the two, feel free to do so!


Thanks for the comparisons. Thoughtful people should take them into account.
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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.
You cannot make a comparison.

Perhaps instead that post should have read, 'attempts at camparison are invalid because....(fill in the blank)...'

Comparisons ARE being made.

For example:
1) it IS a natural disaster;
2) it involves water;
3) it involves flooding;
4) it involves property damage;
5) it involves lives lost;
6) it involves evacuation;
7) it involves federal, state and local governmental interventions;

... need any more?
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Originally posted by meanasasnake:
Another comparison would be that most of the flooded areas are in a flood plain. Why do people build homes and businesses in areas known to historically flood? Guess its like people who live on fault lines, along the gulf coast and below sea level.


Right on snake, seems that after the floods of 93 that people were warned not to rebuild on the flood plane of the Miss River, but looks like we have to keep relearning the same lesson over and over.
A little different in N.O. as it was origionally built above sea level and because of people screwing with the river, it started sinking.
The thing that has made that land so productive is river flooding. Great for farming, but risky to build on unless you build on stilts like they used to do.

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