Hoping for a disaster in Chicago

So, this actually ran in a major American newspaper. Two weeks before the 10-year anniversary of Katrina. It has since been softened somewhat since. And while I understand the premise, what a horrible, horrible idea. How did this get published at all?

http://big.assets.huffingtonpost.com/Katrina-Chicago_Tribun…

“Envy isn’t a rational response to the upcoming 10-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. But with Aug. 29 fast approaching ... I find myself wishing for a storm in Chicago — an unpredictable, haughty, devastating swirl of fury. A dramatic levee break. Geysers bursting through manhole covers. A sleeping city, forced onto the rooftops.”
"That’s what it took to hit the reset button in New Orleans. Chaos. Tragedy. Heartbreak.”

 

Easy to say, as long as it doesn't affect your whitebread neighborhood.

Honkies! I swear, way too many of them. And they are becoming stupider and stupider each year. Scary. Goddamn whiteys.

 

She had to write a sorry-not sorry column.

 

The Democrats will fix the city.

 

I'm stunned that Rahm is not taking care of it!

 

Welcome back.

 

There's already a disaster in Chicago ... at the corner of Clark and Addison.

 

Bad idea, and based on flawed logic to boot. New Orleans survived Katrina, but the city is still as much of a mess as it ever was. Crime and murders are though the roof.

 

Katrina didn't do shit to New Orleans. It was the levy breaking 12 hours later. There were small and medium-sized towns in Mississippi that still haven't recovered.

 

Yep. I was in Pascagoula in Dec 05, and it was like a war zone. Blue tarps covering a lot of roofs. Biloxi, all along MS and AL, bore the brunt of it. But all you heard about was poor New Orleans and Brian Williams.

 

I distinctly remember news reports saying New Orleans was spared, only for things to change that night

 

Good pitch by her but a bad delivery.