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Here is a trailer for Harry Shearer’s The Big Uneasy, the scathing documentary that plays one night only in 150 theaters on Monday, August 30. It certainly puts a different spin on the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina and the notion that the death toll could squarely be blamed on a natural disaster.
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Harry is right, it was the government’s fault that a city built below sea level flooded when hit by the 6th strongest hurricane ever recorded.
Since you haven’t seen the film and have literally no clue what you’re talking about, maybe you should explain why you feel qualified to say anything about the issue or to waste everyone’s time with such an intellectually lazy, unoriginal, meaningless comment.
Well, since the film and *you* are not the only source of information about New Orleans and Katrina in this world, I think your sneer is pretty lazy, unoriginal, and meaningless.
In the previous post about this she mentions she’s seen the film. Good job in pointing out your own hypocritical ignorance and laziness.
More than half of New Orleans is at or above sea level. If you think about it, most every city built at the mouth of river emptying into the ocean is at sea level.
That would be a sensible argument except for the fact that New Orleans was *not* hit by Hurricane Katrina. Katrina missed New Orleans by about 35 miles.
More than a dozen cities in California alone have significant populated portions below sea level. Some areas of New Orleans that severely flooded were 12 feet above sea level. Much of New Orleans is only below sea level because of the levees. The levees prevent the seasonal flooding that compensated for alluvial soil compaction.
If you know anything about the history of the the big easy, you would know that this is not the first time this has happened. & in the 9th ward the crime and poverty was so high and uncontrollable what other choice did they have? If the break was gonna happen, why do it anywhere else but the worst part of town…? just sayin’. That is all
When will this be available on DVD?
Looks like some pretty heroic stuff. Now if someone on the inside could just get that secret hurricane controller, we could aim one at follywood and clean up some of that mess….
We all know the Katrina was George W. Bush’s fault. He aimed that hurricane at New Orleans. Maybe he can aim one at Hollywood.
I don’t think it’s really a thunderbolt that the levees were inadequate and the Corps of Engineers screwed up. What’s the hard lead out of this?
I don’t get the “one night only” thing. It needs to play at least a week in Los Angeles to qualify for Academy Awards consideration… It seems like such an odd marketing approach.
It’s not like the Army Corps of Engineers were the only ones that knew this. I worked at a company where a pitch of a show about impending natural disasters had to be scrapped because the pilot was based around what if a major hurricane hit New Orleans. (FYI the second episode would have been mudslides from Mt. Ranier). I also remember that my brother joked during the fantasy football draft we had the day before that he didn’t want to draft any Saints because their field would be under water.
Like air safety before 9/11, the fail-safes for a hurricane were overlooked by the government and pretty much ignored by the media and most everyone else. There’s enough blame for everyone. I’d rather see people actively working to prevent new problems rather than rehashing and pointing the finger about past ones.
@SoulHonky: While I agree with your point that it would be nice to see proactive solutions before disaster strikes for a change, we also need to hold people accountable for their mistakes. We have a tendency these days (largely because of the media overkill on every story) to want these things to just go away. No one is held accountable, no one is to blame. We shrugged our shoulders after 9/11, we shrugged our shoulders after the Iraq war started, we shrugged our shoulders after Katrina, and we’re shrugging our shoulders now after the oil spill. Don’t get me wrong, it’s not about blame or finger-pointing or scapegoating or even a sense of satisfaction at punishing the negligent idiots who helped to create all of those catastrophes by ignoring the warnings, but if we don’t thoroughly investigate, with all means available, and then hold the individuals responsible accountable, the we are doomed to repeat these same disasters over and over. And everyone will shrug and flip on Friends repeats – except for those that lose their livelihoods, their homes, and their families.
I had been to New Orleans a number of times. My first time there I asked what the big sliding doors were to the south of the French Quarter. I was informed they were closed when hurricanes hit to diminish the flooding. Everyone there experienced floods with heavy rainstorms, let alone hurricanes. They knew Pontchartrain could flood into the channels and flood the city. Why? Because it happened all the time.
Yet, the whole city continued to live there in ignorance.
Yes, those in charge of building the flood measures take the lion’s share of the blame, but this approach of the whole city was lied to is ridiculous. They all knew. Just like us idiots in L.A. know that living over fault lines could destroy our houses with a big enough earthquake. Or the people in tornado alley…
At least with a hurricane you have some advanced notice unlike an earthquake or a tornado.
Yes you do get advanced notice, but tell me would you rather have a disaster hit, and there was nothing you could do about it, or know that one is coming, and not have the finances to avoid it? This is about more than peoples houses,we’re talking about peoples lives.
Just sayin?? WTF I live down here in the 9th ward, not because I want to or like it, but because jobs don’t pay all that well. Therefore it’s hard to afford to live it better safer areas of the city. What you said is a slap in the face to anyone including me, that lost someone in Katrina. I lost my mother and my child to the storm and you think you can say somthing as emotionless as “it was a high crime area so why not let It happen there” WTF! If you are not from here then, or didn’t experience it first hand please shut the hell up. I’m sure you disgusted a lot people with that “I’m just sayin” comment! I’m sure you would feel differently if it happened to you and yours!
Katrina was actually no worse than Hurricane Betsy(1965) in its force whan it hit the city. I rode out both of them in the same house, and was in a good position to compare them. Proof is that the wind damage in the city was minor;had the storm been even remotely as strong as the Corps of Engineers apologists try to pretend it was, the wind damage would have been far greater.The flooding of the city west of the Industrial Canal was equally caused by the Corps and Mayor Sidney Barthelemy and the City Hall Gang,who were warned of the worthlessness of those floodwalls along the drainage canals while still in the planning stage by the veteran engineers of the Sewage & Water Board, who were “rewarded” by being PURGED by Barthelemy.the city had one of the most powerful congressional delegations in the country.It could easily have forced the Corps to build REAL floodwalls, like it got Barthelemy BILLIONS in federal pork.But there was more profit for the city hall criminals in leaving the city open to flooding by the next big hurricane, and then GORGING themselves on the GRAFT from the “federal aid”.