minute paper

today in class we saw the spike lee documentary "when the levees broke." The movie was about the impact that hurricane katrina had on new orleans before durind and after the storm. It showed how 80% of the city was under water and the city was devestated. It wasn't even declared a state of emergency for quite some time. Some people said that they had heard explosions inferring that the governtment blew up the levees intentionally. Many people were aware of the apparent danger, and many fled to high ground, while others could not, or chose to stay. The damage done by katrina was enormous and unfathomible and most of the damage caused by katrina to this day has not been restored. People want to point fingers at who is responsible, but in all actuality the city is 6 feet below sea level, and should have never been built in the first place. New orleans will continue to flood forever and ever, just as did at least 3 time in the last 100 years, the 20s, 60s, and with katrina.