Quote Originally Posted by Yoko_Kurama View Post
Here in America during Hurricane Kattrina we had people robbing stores and stealing tvs, noone cared about anyone.
While I agree with the general tone of the post, I just want to let you know some things that you're apparently unaware of.

During Katrina and afterwards, thousands of Americans - both from outside of Louisiana, and from within our state - converged upon the greater NOLA area to help.

There were fishermen who brought flat-bottom boats into New Orleans under the aegis of the Lt. Governor to search for survivors. They were actually turned away by FEMA, who had no boats to go do searches of its own. The Lt. Governor overruled them and sent the boats in anyway. These weren't people paid to do anything. They volunteered out of their own kindness.

In Baton Rouge, where I was living at the time, the entirety of LSU made room for not one but two hospital facilities, one of which was an urgent care facility. These were staffed primarily by volunteers, including myself, who worked 12 hour plus shifts, unpaid. I spent over 56 hours the first week volunteering in the hospital that was set up. I let multiple people use my personal cell phone to try to contact their relatives, as the cell phone towers were down but the text services were still running (on battery power, which later gave out).

In Downtown, there was a red cross shelter that set up in the Convention Center. Nursing and Medical students volunteered countless hours of their time, as did local Red Cross volunteers.

In my home town of Shreveport, there was a shelter that existed for several months in the Hirsh Coluseum. This was staffed, again, by volunteers.

Texas, Arkansas, and several other states took in thousands of refugees, made sure they were fed and clothed and housed for as long as it took to get them back home. Even though some of them had no homes left to return to.

When Hurricane Sandy hit the East Coast this past year, my hometown raised hundreds of thousands of dollars in both cash and food/necessities that were shipped to the victims to try to help out. Our local Red Cross offices sent several hundred volunteers to help.

Don't tell me that Americans "don't care." Don't tell me that no one cared during Katrina. We cared, even if it didn't get on the news.