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Re: This guy was there and tells the real story

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Originally posted by URY914
Here is a link to a guy's photos and captions of his story of how it went down for him. The things the media aren't telling you.

Great story, nearly 200 pictures of the French Q and downtown NO.


http://www.kodakgallery.com/Slideshow.jsp?mode=fromshare&Uc=r9nmta5.b147fdut&Uy=hbb8p1&Ux=1
Great link, thanks.

By the way, what in the guy's story is the media not telling us?

Here's my summary of what he's saying: the city prepared for a hurricane by boarding up etc, even a white guy who was prepared and pretty "with it" (the guy who posted the photos) did not obey the mandatory evacuation order, initially the damage was significant but people thought they'd dodged the bullet, then the flooding started, looting began with food then some went to greed, police/fire/Guard tried to control things, the author ended up going to the Convention Center, people there were told buses were coming but they never came, conditions kept deteriorating, the author and his friends resorted to breaking into cars but couldn't get out of town that way, fortunately someone had told him where some trucks would be left and he managed to get out of town.

This seems pretty much like what I'm getting from the media.
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