we had cellphones capable of taking video and photos back then. we also had myspace. but yes social media was completely different back then than it is now. the response was shit and basically a lot of fucked up stuff happened in new orleans and at the time we were entering the 2nd year of the iraq war and 4th year of the afghan war. they were spending the budget on that and meanwhile bush appointed some friend of his to lead fema and the dude was a horse breeder. this made people in the south really hate fema in addition to new orleans being a shit show mississippi was destroyed by the storm and suffered much death and destruction too but little help and little news coverage compared to new orleans. it was a shitty ineffective entity then and it still is now.
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