What happened in Louisiana was cataclysmic, I was only three years old when the hurricane hit and I never heard much about it growing up besides the name. Learning how poorly the situation was handled was sickening. Hurricane Katrina affected how the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) works today. It’s more effective now and has better precautions and steps. What was the most shocking to me was how the entirety of the United States government seemed to have forgotten about everyone there. Which leaves me wondering how an entire state can be forgotten about in the middle of a natural disaster?
It was very eye opening seeing how the government reacted and handled everything (or didn’t handle for that matter). JGB was telling everyone how New Orleans is still recovering from the damage and pain to this day; it was 16 years ago and things still aren’t back to normal. Knowing that so much death and destruction happened, the government didn’t respond in time and the people of Louisiana are still facing the repercussions of this event leaves me feeling uneasy.
Watching the documentary left me a lot of questions. I don’t understand why or how our government seemed to not care or not know about all of these people. All of the residents of Louisiana were left trying to piece that part together themselves. Was it their own mayor? Was it FEMA? Was it the president? Knowing that someone messed up somewhere and it costs thousands of lives, that’s the terrifying part. America needs to do better.