Do people know that 90% of the metro area evacuated before the storm? It was the most successful evacuation of a metropolitan area in this country's history. Could their city do as well?

Do they know that the Lower Ninth Ward is but only 2 of the 140 square miles (in just Orleans Parish) that flooded when flood control structures fell down.

Do they know that 70% of New Orleans home owners had flood insurance? – a rate higher than almost anywhere else in the country.

Do they know that the flood, proportionally, killed just as many rich, middle class and poor as well as black, white, Hispanic and Asian New Orleanians? The only demographic that suffered more than the rest were our elderly who suffered the worst, by far. Did you know many thousands of New Orleanians died in the months after the storm from stress and depression, and are still dying?

Do they know that 50% of New Orleans is above sea level?

Did you know ships must travel 96 miles upriver from the Gulf to reach New Orleans? – we are not a 'coastal' city.

Do they know the Corps is mostly responsible for the losses of our wetlands that use to serve as a storm surge buffer for New Orleans?

Do they know that New Orleans has a higher percentage of residents that remain lifelong residents of their home town than any other major metropolitan area in the US?

Do they know the vast majority of New Orleanians are honest, hard working, tax paying, law abiding US citizens and deserve their respect?

Why do outsiders believe these myths?

The myths stem from journalists parachuting in with preconceived notions and lazy but flowery language and they typically report it all wrong. Countrymen and politicians like King used our problems as partisan political fodder. New Orleans and its residents have been ruthlessly slandered like no American city has ever experienced. Lazy media reported a 'natural' disaster and too many of our countrymen feel we deserved our disaster and should even be denied the right to exist. It is plenty enough to hurt your feelings. Our fellow US citizens, even folk from all over the world, don't care that all the misinformation has seriously disillusioned and disturbed so many.

Our outfall canal floodwalls fell down without even being overtopped by storm surge water (at less than half their design loads) because of negligent engineering in the design of those floodwalls' foundations by engineers employed with the US Army Corps of Engineers as reported in the official levee failure investigation reports and reported to Congress by Corps leadership in June of 2006 and as decided by US 5th District Judge S. Duval in January 2008.

The Corps drove the floodwall supporting sheet piles only 17.5 feet below sea level rather than the 60 foot needed to hold back water to the top of the wall. i.e. New Orleans was short sheeted by US Army Corps' engineers.

That is where your Senator's gall and hubris rub us all, across the country, like a cold rasp. It wasn't Katrina, it was the Corps of Engineers flood control structures which failed in 56 locations below design spec at half load. Your Corps of Engineers, Your Clueless Arrogant Senator, both considered New Orleans expendable.

Citizens of New Orleans and the rest of the country survived Katrina missing the city, however it remains to be seen if we will survive the Corps of Engineers and heathens like Your Senator King.
Of course, while you all could fix the latter, we are still working on the former.
Thank you

Did you see all the same bloodthirsty AIPAC-paid recycled neocon shills on TV selling more war for profit?

Watch as they pretend to know nothing of the mounting 9/11 evidence, whistleblowers, & leaks that point to them