For all the talk of New Orleans, how about Mississippi?

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You know what has been completely lost, mostly because of the incompetence of the officials in New Orleans and Louisianna that couldn't manage to pull of a mandatory evacuation and instead left thousands upon thousands of their citizens in danger?? The victims in Mississippi.

I'd post some news links on the victims in Gulf Port and the other areas, but where am I to find them? The news media has been concentrating on New Oreleans and the lawlessness and despair in that area, meanwhile Mississippi (which was hit harder than New Orleans by the storm) is basically ignored.

If the people in New Orleans had been properly evacuated, then perhaps the people in Mississippi could be getting the help they really need in a more timely fashion too.
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Reply #1 from JoeUser Forums Top
That's one reason why the people critical of FEMA and the rest are so short sighted. The whole Brown/Convention Center thing is constantly being compared to 9/11, but damn, 9/11 was what a couple of square miles?

I think it's interesting, since instead of an area the size of the damage of 9/11, we're dealing with an area comperable to the size of Iraq. Yet somehow, if the eyes from above aren't focused on one building, in one state, OUTRAGE!!!

I know the people there were suffering, but there are millions effected by this.
Reply #2 from JoeUser Forums Top
More information on this topic. Link is provided.

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Mississippians' Suffering Overshadowed

Sep 03 11:49 PM US/Eastern
By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS
Associated Press Writer

JACKSON, Miss.

Mississippi hurricane survivors looked around Saturday and wondered just how long it would take to get food, clean water and shelter. And they were more than angry at the federal government and the national news media.
Richard Gibbs was disgusted by reports of looting in New Orleans and upset at the lack of attention hurricane victims in his state were getting.
"I say burn the bridges and let 'em all rot there," he said. "We're suffering over here too, but we're not killing each other. We've got to help each other. We need gas and food and water and medical supplies."
Gibbs and his wife, Holly, have been stuck at their flooded home in Gulfport just off the Biloxi River. Water comes up to the second floor, they are out of gasoline, and food supplies are running perilously low.
Until recently, they also had Holly's 75-year-old father, who has a pacemaker and severe diabetes, with them. Finally they got an ambulance to take him to the airport so he could be airlifted to Lafayette, La., for medical help.
In poverty-stricken north Gulfport, Grover Chapman was angry at the lack of aid.
"Something should've been on this corner three days ago," Chapman, 60, said Saturday as he whipped up dinner for his neighbors.
He used wood from his demolished produce stand to cook fish, rabbit, okra and butter beans he'd been keeping in his freezer. Although many houses here, about five miles inland, are still standing, they are severely damaged. Corrugated tin roofs lie scattered on the ground.
"I'm just doing what I can do," Chapman said. "These people support me with my produce stand every day. Now it's time to pay them back."
One neighbor, 78-year-old Georgia Smylie, knew little about what's happening elsewhere. She was too worried about her own situation.
"My medicine is running out. I need high blood pressure medicine, medicine for my heart," she said.
Larry Sabato, a University of Virginia political scientist, said he's been watching hours of Katrina coverage every day and most of the national media attention has focused on the devastation and looting in New Orleans.
"Mississippi needs more coverage," Sabato said. "Until people see it on TV, they don't think it's real."

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Reply #3 from JoeUser Forums Top
Northern America hates Mississippi.  To them, it epitomizes the old south, and is thus to be despised.  While New Orleans suffered a major disaster, Mississippi 'got what it deserves'.