Jesus saved New Orleans from Katrina?

[TZ]

In one of the biggest :wtf: moments for me lately I saw this story about a Jesus statue with missing fingers..That some people say went missing after "steering" Katrina away from NO. Pardon me, but I'm at a loss on how Katrina could have done much more damage to NO than it did in reality. Putting 80% of your city underwater is saving it? How pathetic of a Messiah do you have to be if you can steer a hurricane but can't keep shoddy levees from breaking? Damn, but if I had a relative who died in Katrina, I would find this kind of thing highly offensive...:banghead:

[realisticphish]

1. huh?

Katrina hit NO pretty much straight on, didn't it? Maybe glancing a little bit?

[TZ]

2. No I remember that at first they thought that Katrina had "spared" NO

because it jogged slightly East at the last moment. However, I'm not sure a dead on hit would have been all that much worse than what happened after the levees failed.

[realisticphish]

3. right

St. Andrew, or Ivan, were bad.

The hellish thing about Katrina was the LEVEES, not the storm itself

[Behind the Aegis]

4. A Jesus statue?

I haven't heard this one. I do know the statue at on the Riverwalk lost it's finger, but she ain't Jesus. It is a statue in honor of all the immigrants that created our city. I think I even have a pic of it...if not I can run down and get one, it's only about 7 blocks from my house.

Edit: This isn't my picture. The statue is represnative of Lady Liberty. You can see the missing fingers.:



from: http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WM4NAH

[Kurt Remarque]

5. he did a pretty shitty job