Katrina Doumumentary on HBO Will Open Your Eyes

I spent four hours of my day off watching “When the levees break…” it was one of those things you would rather not see but can’t pull yourself away from it. I never really watch the news or regular TV, I found out about the tsunami about 3 days after it had happened. Watching all 4 acts of this documentary was really difficult, director Spike Lee took a balanced approach to the film, and didn’t seem to run with taking film footage out of context like another documentary film maker with the initials MM.

To think that we lend so much aid to other countries, that we could not take care of our own people. The film does not hold back or censor, it shows how things were. Dead bodies floating in the water, people dropping dead on the street, dead lying on the street, dead animals, family members dying in the arms of other family, no food, no water for 5 days. How crazy does a person go after 5 days with no food or water in the blistering heat.

Can you imagine the smell in the Super Dome? The heat mixed with the river of sewer flowing through the dome, the dead bodies, no I don’t think there is a way to imagine this. Watching the film vs. living through through this are entirely different.

To live survive through this event would have to leave deep emotional scars. Most of the survivors interviewed stated that they needed some type of medicine to help them sleep. Think of the nightmares the children have. One young adult came back after his house was cleared and marked 0 bodies, he found his dead mother under a refrigerator.

This entire catastrophe was one bad blow after another, the residents of New Orleans were also rejected by their insurance companies.

I have some links I found on digg.com that are relevant to Katrina.

Engineers worry about New Orleans Levees 8/26/2006

NEW ORLEANS - The head of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers conceded Saturday that despite aggressive efforts to repair the levee system in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, it was unclear whether the it could hold up to a sizable hurricane this year.

Sisters blew whistle on Katrina claims
By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN, Associated Press Writer Sat Aug 26, 1:56 PM ET

OCEAN SPRINGS, Miss. - Who are the moles? The question was like a parlor game for employees of State Farm Insurance Co. after Hurricane Katrina, one they nervously played during coffee breaks or in the parking lot after work.

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