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fpiaw Send message Joined: 29 Dec 99 Posts: 236 Credit: 1,203,409 RAC: 0 |
If you had to pick which disaster was worst (katrina or 9/11) which would you pick and why? For example, if you had just enought money to build one monument which one would you build it for? Personally I would pick Katrina because we should have done better. Plus we can help people without hurting our constitution. Thanks, Christopher. |
John McLeod VII Send message Joined: 15 Jul 99 Posts: 24806 Credit: 790,712 RAC: 0 |
If you had to pick which disaster was worst (katrina or 9/11) which would you pick and why? For example, if you had just enought money to build one monument which one would you build it for? Katrina. Just for the sheer number of mistakes that were made dealing with it. BOINC WIKI |
Uli Send message Joined: 6 Feb 00 Posts: 10923 Credit: 5,996,015 RAC: 1 |
I second both of you. I saved a Time Magazine with all the horrible pics and look at it at times. Pluto will always be a planet to me. Seti Ambassador Not to late to order an Anni Shirt |
Aristoteles Doukas Send message Joined: 11 Apr 08 Posts: 1091 Credit: 2,140,913 RAC: 0 |
If you had to pick which disaster was worst (katrina or 9/11) which would you pick and why? For example, if you had just enought money to build one monument which one would you build it for? i think the money would be used better if used to people who still lives away from their home,no statue will help anybody |
fpiaw Send message Joined: 29 Dec 99 Posts: 236 Credit: 1,203,409 RAC: 0 |
Yes. I agree. Until the problem is solved and people are doing ok again I don't like the idea of spending money on momuments. Chris. If you had to pick which disaster was worst (katrina or 9/11) which would you pick and why? For example, if you had just enought money to build one monument which one would you build it for? |
Blurf Send message Joined: 2 Sep 06 Posts: 8962 Credit: 12,678,685 RAC: 0 |
Katrina---because our government has completely and abysmally failed the residents of the Gulf Coast. |
Fuzzy Hollynoodles Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 9659 Credit: 251,998 RAC: 0 |
To me 9/11 were far more devastating, also because of the change in the fear of terror worldwide it brought by showing what some radical groups are capable of. And there have been terror attacks on other countries since connected to 9/11. To many of us here in my part of the world, the political climate in the world changed that day. Katrina, how terrible it was, didn't have a world-wide significance and influence on most of the Western countries as 9/11 had. Besides, I lost my old cat Sos that day, 9/11-2001, she was put to sleep at the vet only a couple of hours earlier than what happened in the States. So that day will always have a significant meaning to me... "I'm trying to maintain a shred of dignity in this world." - Me |
OzzFan Send message Joined: 9 Apr 02 Posts: 15691 Credit: 84,761,841 RAC: 28 |
Katrina was a natural disaster with human mistakes. 9/11 was a tragic disaster involving human ignorance and hatred, and is the basis for many conflicts in human history. I would say that 9/11 was far worse, and if we can somehow solve those problems, we'd be a lot better off (and our biggest disasters would be natural ones). |
Fuzzy Hollynoodles Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 9659 Credit: 251,998 RAC: 0 |
Katrina was a natural disaster with human mistakes. Yes, natural disasters should not be compared to disasters created by terror and human hatred. If we should count on natural disasters and grade them, which I think is impossible, loss of human lives is terrible no matter how many, I'd say the tsunami 12/26-2004 was worse than Katrina in regards of loss of lives and magnitude. There wasn't even any human mistakes there, it was just unlucky people staying and living the wrong place when The Goddess Mother of the Earth shrugged. "I'm trying to maintain a shred of dignity in this world." - Me |
OzzFan Send message Joined: 9 Apr 02 Posts: 15691 Credit: 84,761,841 RAC: 28 |
loss of human lives is terrible no matter how many Agreed! |
BrainSmashR Send message Joined: 7 Apr 02 Posts: 1772 Credit: 384,573 RAC: 0 |
I've got a better question... What's the difference between drinking poisoned kool-aid and failing to heed multiple hurricane warnings when you live inside a bowl surrounded by water 10' below sea level? ...and how is EITHER the government's fault? |
fpiaw Send message Joined: 29 Dec 99 Posts: 236 Credit: 1,203,409 RAC: 0 |
I agree. That the tsunami was the worst disaster of any kind that I have seen in my lifetime. It makes me sad that we don't really hear about it anymore. And I agree that 9/11 was a disaster created by humans out of hatred. I am an american and can remember exactly where I was then (18 at the time). I had to wake my brother up and tell him about it. It just bothers me that the media spends so much more time on 9/11 than on katrina or the tsunami. Heck when is the last time you heard about the earthquake in China. Chris. Katrina was a natural disaster with human mistakes. |
fpiaw Send message Joined: 29 Dec 99 Posts: 236 Credit: 1,203,409 RAC: 0 |
People everywhere live in a dangerous places. I agree, that the gulf coast is by far not the safest place in the world to live. And more people should have left, if they could afford to. But I don't think we can just say "Hey you are not allowed to live on the gulf coast or in parts of texas". How could you enforce that? I mean we would have to tell people to move out of Galveston, Texas because the deadliest natural disaster in the USA happened there. Yes people may consider that a once in a lifetime event, but so was katrina. In 1900: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galveston_Hurricane_of_1900 Again in 1915: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1915_Galveston_Hurricane Disasters happen everywhere. Just think of all the money we spend every year to protect a "handfull" of houses from frost fires in the west. They should just move to places without trees. Or maybe that is just the way the world works and we have to deal with it. The Government is not a body by itself, it is the people. So in way if someone lives down there then a part of the government is down there. Our government is responsible for all of it citizens even if a large amount of them make "dumb" decisions your opinion. Chris. I've got a better question... |
tullio Send message Joined: 9 Apr 04 Posts: 8797 Credit: 2,930,782 RAC: 1 |
Each country has its danger zones. Think of the Messina earthquake of 1908 and the following tsunami. The first helpers were sailors of the Russian Fleet which happened to be nearby. The Friuli earthquake of 1976, which I felt in Milano being on a 14th floor, killed more than one thousand people, then it was followed by others in Sicily and Southern Italy. You cannot foresee earthquakes, the only thing you can do is to build better buildings as has been done in California and Japan and not in China. More than one million people live around Mount Vesuvius, a volcano of the explosive type which burst in 79 A.D. and then in 1944, covering Allied airfields and planes with ashes. Yet people continue living and building houses around it, despite many warnings. Life must go on, despite the "thousand natural shocks that flesh is heir to" (Shakespeare). Tullio |
BrainSmashR Send message Joined: 7 Apr 02 Posts: 1772 Credit: 384,573 RAC: 0 |
People everywhere live in a dangerous places. I agree, that the gulf coast is by far not the safest place in the world to live. And more people should have left, if they could afford to. But I don't think we can just say "Hey you are not allowed to live on the gulf coast or in parts of texas". How could you enforce that? Who said anything about not letting them live on the coast? I'm talking about getting out of the way of major hurricanes.
Man has possessed the knowledge and technology to battle fire for so long it's now commonplace. Remove the oxygen source (smother) or remove/reduce the combustibility of the fuel source (water). We currently have no means to fight hurricanes, only track and predict their path of destruction.
I'm sure you like to think that's how the govt. works, but the facts clearly tell a different story. Precisely why most of us make sacrifices in order to NOT be govt. dependent....even those of us in Louisiana. |
Aristoteles Doukas Send message Joined: 11 Apr 08 Posts: 1091 Credit: 2,140,913 RAC: 0 |
no |
jim little Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 112 Credit: 915,934 RAC: 0 |
I think we should observe that the head of security for Smith Barney gat almost all employees out of the tower before it collapsed. He was still herding the last few out when the building failed. Two thousand survived because he saw the risk in the building and had drills so that huge number got out. Compare that to the after storm flood in New Orleans with Bush's buddy Brownie <in charge>. And the Mayor who had the a fleet of school buses left parked in a low area that flooded and not available to move people out of the city after the winds subsided. ( or evacuating the low areas before the storm). Finally the great job (by contractors for C of E) in building the sea walls and levies to keep the flood out of the lower half the city. So my choice is the worst case was the New Orleans both before and after. Finally we must not forget those on the fourth plane who crashed because the passengers stormed those who took over the aircraft. It could have hit any of a dozen really important buildings in DC. We will never know which one unless Bin Laden choses to make a statement. As a resident of s suburb of DC having just one building hit was bad enough. Imagine one or more important offices were hit along the mall. duke |
fpiaw Send message Joined: 29 Dec 99 Posts: 236 Credit: 1,203,409 RAC: 0 |
The point I was making is that if an American is in trouble then it is every American's job (including our government, which again is part of us) to help them. These people were living in American and they needed our help. Dumb or not, we and our government failed to protect our own people in our own country. Chris. |
fpiaw Send message Joined: 29 Dec 99 Posts: 236 Credit: 1,203,409 RAC: 0 |
I agree. Everyone messed up. Some more than others. That is why I rank it higher. And the fact that the media does not report it as much as 9/11. I live in Northern Va as well and wondered where the other plane was going. Congress? Whitehouse? Who knows. Chris. I think we should observe that the head of security for Smith Barney gat almost all employees out of the tower before it collapsed. He was still herding the last few out when the building failed. Two thousand survived because he saw the risk in the building and had drills so that huge number got out. |
BrainSmashR Send message Joined: 7 Apr 02 Posts: 1772 Credit: 384,573 RAC: 0 |
The point I was making is that if an American is in trouble then it is every American's job (including our government, which again is part of us) to help them. These people were living in American and they needed our help. Dumb or not, we and our government failed to protect our own people in our own country. Actually that's just your opinion. No one is America is required to care for any other human being other than a parent or guardian of a minor child...and through emancipation of the child, one can even remove themselves from that obligation. |
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