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	Name:	Osms -
	Subject:	Mr. Hodja
	Date:	12/6/2009 5:26:30 PM

It is very interesting that you experienced helping others on the Mississippi Gulf Coast and observed their desire to overcome terrible circumstances and move on to recover. As a resident of the Coast for many years before Katrina, I worked a great deal in New Orleans. The most disturbing thing to us was the media coverage in New Orleans that was so distorted that the nation formed an opinion that everyone affected by the storm simply sat down and waited to be served--the picture provided by TV.

Rarely was any mention made of the hundreds of thousands of hard working folks in Miss and LA who were picking themselves up and moving on. Interesting was the huge influx of Mexicans to New Orleans to clean up and start rebuilding--all while the "entitled" were laying up in a hotel room in Houston, ATL, or any number of other places for the following 2 to 4 years, at taxpayer expense.

The total collapse of the N.O. and La government's efforts to plan for the storm or execute any rescue effort should have led to criminal charges. The glaring differences between the planning and rescue efforts of South Mississippi and New Orleans should be studied some day. Remember Katrina hit Mississippi in Bay St. Louis with a 32 foot tide (waves on top of that). Forty miles to the east we had a 21 foot tide. New Orleans to the west of the storm was flooded by much less water (9 to 3 feet)and no waves in all but St. Bernard Parrish.