KATRINA is our TSUNAMI!!!

[Rainscents]

When this is done, there will be hundreds possibility thousands dead. Many people will die from illiness due to lack of clean water and senitation. :cry:

This is the statement Mayor made just little bit ago.

[Beetwasher]

1. No, It's Not

It's bad, but it ain't that bad, not even close. Perspective is needed here.

[rbjensen]

3. I agree it isn't even close

but I understand the analogy. To us, a nation used to nice tidy disasters, this appears to be out of control.

[Rainscents]

5. This word came from NO mayor.

[Beetwasher]

10. Heh?

Doesn't matter who said it. It's not even close to the devastation wrought by the Tsunami.

[ps1074]

21. I think it came from MS governor

eom

[Pacifist Patriot]

27. Mayor of Biloxi

[xultar]

8. That's not the point. What I don't agree with is Americans feeling the

need to compare suffering or equate suffering.

This is bad. Thousands dead. Not 100's of thousands but probably 10.

We need a way of describing our disasters as it relates to us not how it relates to disasters of others.

[Beetwasher]

15. I Agree

It's bad, it's awful and it is what it is. No need to compare it to the Tsunami.

[expatriot]

22. If the comparison wakes people up out of their complacency

I am all for it.

[CityZen-X]

9. Absolutely!

the major loss here is material loss. I didn't see the same response for the loss of life pertaining to the sunami victims!

[kick-ass-bob]

2. yes, it's bad, but it's not hundreds OF thousands.

just keep it in perspective.

[Orrex]

6. Where were you when I needed you?!?

I made this same point here and was roundly attacked for it!

Or is it just me?

[kick-ass-bob]

13. sorry - I didn't show up until later.

I'd have had your back.

:thumbsup:

[Orrex]

19. That's okay

If my being a lightning rod helps people to vent their frustration and horror at the disaster, then how can I complain, really?

But it's comforting to see that I'm not alone in my view.

[Pacifist Patriot]

14. I'm sorry I missed it.

I can see why an overwhelmed person might make the statement, but the context lacks perspective. Understandably so, but still lacking. I agree that these two disasters are both catastrophic, but not analogous.

[VolcanoJen]

4. Not by a long shot.

But I do expect the media to make this comparison frequently in the coming days.

Katrina is our Katrina. It's horrific enough on its own, and doesn't require metaphor.

[Pacifist Patriot]

7. I was actually a bit offended when I heard that statement from the mayor.

I see far more dissimilarities than valid comparisons. At the very least, these areas were granted preparation time. Vacationers were not swept out to sea with no warning.

This is a catastrophe no matter how you look at it, but the scale isn't remotely equivalent.

[xultar]

12. I agree. I was angry @ the mayor for comparing disasters. Let

that disaster stand alone. Let this disaster stand alone.

[Pacifist Patriot]

18. I agree. I think it is pointless to compare anything when it comes to

situations like these. It never holds up to personal scrutiny when it comes down to it.

[enigma000]

11. DOOMED i tell you DOOMED

It's all the worst parts of the bible I tell you: rivers of blood, darkness at noon, cats and dogs living together!

[Shakespeare]

16. Yeah, real funny stuff there.

Wonderful fucking time for a joke. :grr:

[Pacifist Patriot]

20. I didn't find it particularly funny either, but...

sometimes "black" humor is a way of dealing with tragedy.

[enigma000]

24. Look Will, (can I call you Will)

Apologizes for my sick sense of humour, but there is no point trivializing the Tsunami of last year. Let us suck it up and prepare for some really bad news causality-wise.

My sympathies for your country and people in their time of grief.

[unrepuke]

25. LOL! Shakespeare liketh it not, yet methinks he complaineth too much.

Cats & Dogs
:rofl:

hyuck hyuck

[VADem11]

17. Not even close

This is horrible but comparing this to the tsunami is unwarrented. In that case it affected thousands of miles of coast in multiple countries, killed hundreds of thousnands of people without warning and was just far far worse. A closer thing would be the Galveston Hurricane.

[mondo joe]

23. I am appalled at the lack of appreciation of scale of hurt

and suffering.

This is an absolutely tragic experience.

The Tsunami was a tragedy of far greater proportion and loss.

[expatriot]

26. Who the F cares about whether the analogy is appropriate or not?

America needs to be awoken from its complacency regarding this event... if the analogy helps to wake people out of the MSM/Bush induced slumber than I am all for it.

[mvd]

28. Who knows how many will be dead

It might not be of the Tsunami's toll, but the death toll could be as great as 9/11's. I'm surprised the non-cable only networks aren't covering this disaster more. Where is the federal government and Bush! Oh well, not surprised under the "personal responsibility for everyone but me and my donors/staff" pResident.

[Ediacara]

29. I heard him say that yesterday

I thought he was an unbelievibly petty tsunami diminishing jackass. Maybe he was accidentally on to something though :-( Not nearly to the degree of the tsunami of course, but a lot more than was expected even yesterday afternoon.