I found this at a link for pictures of Katrina damage. I just happened to notice the caption. There has been almost no coverage of how bad things have been in Miami.
In this Aug. 26, 2005 file photo provided by the Miami Dade-Fire Rescue Dept., homes in South Dade County (Fla.) are seen submerged in rising water caused by Hurricane Katrina. The loss of life and property caused by Hurricane Katrina is expected to exceed the wrath of record-setting Hurricane Andrew, which struck in 1992. (AP Photo/Miami Dade-Fire Rescue, Lt. Eric Baum, File )
I don’t have too much to say about this, except I did not know about it. Is the media really that good at being lousy? Or did anyone just not notice. I searched for more pictures, and I hardly found any at all. Maybe more will show up at a later date.
I found this from the Miami Hurricane website, the football team that is. Looks like it hit the campus pretty bad.
I just did not know about this.
I wondered about Florida. Thanks for the pix floridagal, it makes it even more urgent that we help out the recovery operations with donations.
I don’t know, but suspect, that when they talk about the cost of Katrina being higher than Andrew they are talking the total cost, rather than local cost. Here’s an article at the Miami Herald about the damage to South Florida — which, based on my growing up down there, sounds pretty “normal” for a hurricane.
And questioned the media. I crossposted at Kos, and they thought I was trying to compete with New Orleans.
I wasn’t trying to compete with New Orleans. I live in Florida, and I had no clue about this. It has been a week almost and many are still without power. Now that is unusual from the way things used to be.
Compete?? That was their reaction? God god is there NOTHING they can’t turn into a pissing contest?!?
I have been slightly dismayed about the lack of coverage outside of NO — if I were worrying about family and friends in rural LA or MI, I would be downright frothing….I saw Brett Favre (Green Bay Packers QB) on Fox today, (he’s from Hattiesburg, MI) talking about the devestation — it was the longest segment on something outside of NOLA that I have heard in 48 hours.
And, a week without poer? Is this a poor and/or Cuban part of Miami?
And bellpityblankfuck (I’m running out of explitives) don’t you think it might have had just a SLIGHT effect on planning (both individual and governmental) if these pictures had been plastered EVERYWHERE on 8/26 and 8/27??? With the caption….”and this is when it was a CAT1…”
Thanks floridagal — where in FA are you?
The media sucks.
The fact that folks in parts of Katrina-affected Florida have been out of power for a week doesn’t surprise me in the least, though. I left Miami in large part because the state and local governments were becoming increasingly corrupt and incompetent, and therefore situations like this were becoming increasingly more common. Everything else in that article I linked has always been normal for hurricanes in S FL, though, afaik.
When I made my post, I was just trying to point out that it doesn’t appear that Katrina hit Florida all that hard compared to Andrew, or compared to how hard Katrina’s hit the gulf coast up around NO. The caption of that photo was unclear — as so many of them are, because as we all know here at the BT, the media sucks.
I haven’t been to dKos in ages so I don’t really know anything about the current dynamics over there. I migrated out a few months ago because imo the bad started to outweigh the good. It sounds like they were being assholes to you, which is just stupid.
I hate to be pedantic but these houses are hardly “submerged in” the water. Green (grass?) is clearly visible round them and you can also see the bottom of the house sides. “Surounded by” yes but “submerged”?
We’re fine, but thanks for the concern.
I am in rural So. Dade (Eye of Katrina peered at me — they all do — as storm passed overhead Friday.) and it is not now, nor ever was as bad as what has happened and continues to happen to the Gulf Coast. Please consider us “chickenfeed.” And “our” Katrina” was no Andrew!
Sure, I’m sitting in a house that’s 10′ above mean sea level, not 6′ below; yes the flood’s still in my yard — but it never got in my house, much less topped my roof, and I LIVE IN A DESIGNATED FLOOD ZONE.
True, folks in Perrine, Florida City, Homestead, Goulds, and Naranja all experienced and still suffer from houses that are total losses due to water that came up to their knees for a few hours. But these towns are all still here, not utterly wiped away or 90% erased like every Gulf Coast town between NO and Mobile.
And yes, folks in the Gables (and elsewhere) may be suffering from the ghastly heat and humidity. Two days ago it was 96 outside and 88 inside my house. But I have power now, and they will too by the weekend — at worst. What took 2 months to restore after Andrew, took 3 days after Katrina.
I have no complaints. Do not send aid down here to anyone, regardless of what you hear. Send it to the truly needy. No weeping woman ever pushed the corpse of a loved one on a bier of plywood in a search for help; no loving son ever hacked unassisted through 2 miles of felled growth to get his family out; no man, woman, or child suffered the “agonies of defeat” inside an airless domed stadium without the basic necessities of decency — not now, and not even 13 years ago.
Send your money to the Gulf Coast. Believe me, when it comes to Florida, the Bush’s look after each other.
I really had not been concerned because I did not know anything about it. See, the media never covered Katrina’s hit on Miami, so I was surprised to see this. I knew it hit, I knew a few had power outrages and some rain.
I live in Central Florida, and I did not know.
I am not competing to be worse than New Orleans, nothing is worse than that.
Not trying to get attention, just posted because I was surprised. Not soliciting.
See, I hardly knew you guys had a storm. I went through 3 eyes last year, and I do know a storm. Just surprised that I did not know.
Glad all is well.
Only trying to display a little “stiff upper lip” inherited from my English father. And lighten the gloom and doom we’re surrounded by at present.
My son lives in Orlando. Know what you mean about HS ’04.