New Orleans has to be in the Guinness Book of World Records for complete ineptitude in responding to a hurricane. Hundreds of communities have survived hurricanes and rebuilt in a fraction of the time of New Orleans, all without playing the victim card to an irritated nation. They’re still whining down there and waiting for someone else to solve their problems.
Now they’ve got Katrina refugees putting guilt trips on people in their new communities. There was a a column by one in The News & Observer this morning that gives clues to the real problem down in the Big Easy:
All staff at the social service nonprofit where I worked in 2005 received trauma counseling after Katrina, not only to help cope with our own losses but to learn what long-term problems Katrina survivors might face.
She also says “New Orleanians do things in their own Big Easy time,” but it looks more like they’re waiting for someone do the heavy lifting while they drink chickory coffee at Cafe Du Monde and murder people at a startling rate.
Incredibly, she blames the cancer deaths of several friends on Katrina and the poor record of the rest of the country in reacting to their plight. A man who hanged himself and a woman who slit her throat long after the storm had passed also are counted victims of Katrina and the poor response to it by the rest of the world.
I think maybe the real problem is too many people have been listening to trauma counselors preaching victimhood. Sorry, but my Katrina fatigue set in a couple of years ago.
