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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]There was a state of emergency declared after Katrina.[/b]

This was a DC government decision. DC's mayor (and most of her predecessors) is black, so no it's not racially motivated.[/quote]

The Marines and the Navy Seals would have been pulling people from the water if this happened in Kennebunkport. Please stop gaslighting.[/quote]

https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/statement-the-press-secretary-federal-emergency-assistance-for-louisiana

The President's action authorizes the Department of Homeland Security, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), to coordinate all disaster relief efforts which have the purpose of alleviating the hardship and suffering caused by the emergency on the local population, and to provide appropriate assistance for required emergency measures, authorized under Title V of the Stafford Act, to save lives, protect property and public health and safety, or to lessen or avert the threat of a catastrophe in the parishes of [b]Allen, Avoyelles, Beauregard, Bienville, Bossier, Caddo, Caldwell, Claiborne, Catahoula, Concordia, De Soto, East Baton Rouge, East Carroll, East Feliciana, Evangeline, Franklin, Grant, Jackson, LaSalle, Lincoln, Livingston, Madison, Morehouse, Natchitoches, Pointe Coupee, Ouachita, Rapides, Red River, Richland, Sabine, St. Helena, St. Landry, Tensas, Union, Vernon, Webster, West Carroll, West Feliciana, and Winn.[/b]

Why weren’t the parishes sharing a coastline with the gulf not included?[/quote]

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