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Can-do spirit.
In a January 25, 2006 editorial, the Clarion Ledger newspaper
columnist Sid Salter expressed some of the frustrations shared by many in the region after the storm, along with high praise for
the people of his state that made the very best of a horrific situation. He said that "Mississippi storm victims toiled in
virtual anonymity [after Katrina], digging out and getting by and suffering hardships just the same as those in Louisiana" and "were
it not for Miss native Robin Roberts [ABC] and a few
others, the national media would have had the nation believe that Louisiana
was decimated and Miss was hit my a brisk breeze," the editorial states.
The editorial also gave praise to the proud,
defiant, citizens who immediately got out and began getting the hard work done, the MS DPS for clearing
the roads, religious groups setting up hot food lines, power company crews, the
National Guard, thousands of volunteers and Mississippi public officials
doing the hard work on the ground organizing and inspiring a meaningful recovery"
Editors Note: "Nobody in Mississippi believes Louisiana didn't suffer horribly from Katrina. But when
you watch news programs concerning Katrina, and sit through the entire program usually without hearing Mississippi
mentioned at all, it gets to you. Maybe with all the attention on New Orleans flooding, people forgot that Mississippi
bore the brunt of the storm. In Mississippi alone hundreds were killed, more than a hundred thousand were left homeless
and more than a million people were affected by the storm. Waveland, Bay St. Louis, Pass Christian, Long Beach Miss were
almost completely destroyed and will take years to recover, even a little. Nobody in South Mississippi is pretending that
New Orleans and southeast Louisiana didn't suffer, but for good reason, they feel like Mississippi has been
forgotten" |
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