No-name storm dumped three times as much rain in Louisiana as Hurricane Katrina
Source: Washington Post
The Louisiana flood has taken at least 13 lives and damaged 40,000 homes. This multibillion-dollar disaster is a devastating example of the damage water can do and proves that a hurricane is not required to leave behind a flooding catastrophe.
This unnamed storm produced three times as much rain in Louisiana as Hurricane Katrina.
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Ryan Maue, a meteorologist for WeatherBell Analytics, computed that the no-name storm deposited the equivalent of 7.1 trillion gallons of water on Louisiana. “Enough water fell that it could fill Lake Pontchartrain about four times,” he said.
Hurricane Katrina, by comparison, only left behind about 2.3 trillion gallons of rainwater in the state. (It produced a lot more rain in Mississippi, about 4.26 trillion gallons). The flooding in Louisiana from Katrina was mostly caused by storm surge, the tsunami-like swell from the Gulf of Mexico, which caused levees and flood walls to fail, not freshwater rain.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2016/08/19/no-name-storm-dumped-three-times-as-much-rain-in-louisiana-as-hurricane-katrina/
Fox News has been pushing the talking point that the media is biased because they are not treating President Obama's handling of the flooding in Louisiana with the same criticism given to Bush's handling of Katrina. Indeed, a favorite right wing talking point is to praise Trump's photo op passing around a few boxes of materials in the midst of a disaster zone.
Of course, no one is mentioning that around 1,800 died during Hurricane Katrina compared to 13 deaths due to the recent storm, which dumped three times as much rain on Louisiana. Put another way, the property damage and flooding is a lot worse than Katrina, but loss of life has been mercifully kept down low.
Nonetheless, the right wing press is pushing a false equivalency suggesting that Bush was unjustly criticized because he did not cut his vacation short. No, Bush was criticized because nearly 2,000 people died due to his administrations mishandling of the disaster. No gives a rat's ass about whether Bush was on vacation.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/08/18/bias-alert-media-that-ripped-bush-on-katrina-ignores-obama-on-la-flooding.html
President George W. Bush was torn to shreds in 2005 by mainstream media commentators for his initial response to Hurricane Katrina – yet President Obama’s detached response to the recent Louisiana floods has been met with resounding silence from those same outlets.
“George Bush doesn’t care about black people” was the shocking charge by singer Kanye West about President Bush’s response to Katrina. West’s was a particularly blunt assessment, but echoed a growing narrative pushed by mainstream media outlets that Bush’s response was out of touch, inept and most of all, he didn’t care about people on the ground.
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So far, there have been no mainstream media outlets criticizing Obama’s apparent lack of response, nor have there been any celebrities claiming Obama doesn’t care about the people on the ground.
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