I live in a New Orleans suburb. My family is still trying to recover. The stress level is unbelieveable. Everything we have, all of our retirement plans, are in our home. Right now in my neighborhood you cannot sell houses. Everything is in limbo.
If I could have voted, I would have voted for Nagin. Landrieu, nor any of the other candidates who ran, had any concrete plans for how to fix things AND prepare for this hurricane season. Nagin didn't either, but at least he knows where we are at. Yea, Nagin made mistakes. As did our governor, and the federal goverment. It is not one person. The government has FEMA trailers stationed in different areas of the country, paying to house them, but not getting them to people who need them. The people whose homes are fixed cannot get the used trailers picked up. You would have to live here to fully get it. FEMA is the biggest problem we have, and have had from the day the storm hit. Plus let's not forget the Corps of Engineers who KNEW the levees were totally inefficient. I want out so bad I cannot tell you. But we are stuck. Our fate is out of our hands. We just sit back and watch this hurricane season. It will make or break us.
Like someone else said, it is very easy to criticize. Walk in our shoes. (And I am one of the lucky ones).
