Seriously isn't it time to just let that city just get swallowed by the ocean, who would want to live in a place where every couple of years you have to evacuate and move into a tent for a few months. It's clear there is no way to protect New Orleans b/c the city is basically positioned in a giant bowl in the middle of the ocean, why would anyone want to live there, let the city go and move the ppl to safer location permanently. Katrina cost billions of dollars and killed many ppl, Gustav will likely do the same, I mean fuk when do they wakeup and realize NO is simply not designed for humans to live in permanently.
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To be honest New Orleans been getting hit by serious storms since forever! The levees only broke 1 time and some people this that th egovernment did that on purpose but thats another topic. It's not as series as people think! If you leave New Orleans than you can leave the lower part of Florida!Originally posted by bettilimbroke999Comment -
And I also currently live in Baton Rouge and stay a great deal in New Orleans.Originally posted by bettilimbroke999Comment -
The entire gulf, including florida and houston is just as vulnerable if the storm this size comes their wayComment -
Exactly! If you get rid of New Olreans get rid of the whole Gulf CoastOriginally posted by Brock LandersComment -
With a little planning and about 100 billion dollars New Orleans can be a nice and fairly well protected city. The levees were a flawed design originally and need to be rebuilt to a different standard. Until they address this issue in that city, an occasional hurricane will come by and it will be a tragic story for about a month until the population forgets about it and moves onto other news.
I hope they really get it this time so some hard decisions will need to be made.Comment -
There is no reason for New Orleans to be the size it is. It needs to exist as a port, but little else beyond that. If you live in an area that frequently gets hit with hurricanes and there are other viable cities for you to live in, you shouldn't expect the rest of us to bail you out.Comment -
ever time i think of New Orleans and the possibility of it getting flooded, i just remember some old documentary on Discovery or History channel. It was actually about the ports and the Mississippi river and the levees. I just remember some person pointing out the Mississippi river and where he was standing the river was actually above him, way above him, he was talking about how New Orleans sinks and a certain rate every year and is slowly eroding away, and that where he is standing keeps getting developed , yet it is prone to flooding from the possibility of the Ole Miss and the levees and whatnot.Comment -
Same can be said about the bay area, the insanity of living there. Its not a matter of if but when a giant earthquake destroys the entire area.Comment -
The same could be said about all the island nations in the Caribbean and much of florida and south carolina and other coastal areas in that area.
People can live wherever they want, but if that happens to be in a place hit frequently by hurricanes I don't think the gov't should be responsible to rebuild their homes. However, for some less advantaged people, sometimes you are stuck where you are.
What's remarkable is that the Cuban gov't manages to prepare it's people for hurricanes much better than the US gov't does. I suppose it's more of a priority when your entire country is in the middle of the Caribbean sea.Comment -
All our Walmarts closed in Baton Rouge!Comment -
I just went to do some extra shopping and all the walmarts were closedComment -
When the Walmarts close its time to run!! Run Fast!, Run Far!Comment -
What I'm sayin is NO is setup to collect water given it's geographic design (it is a bowl positioned at sea level), the only thing keeping the city from being underwater is the levees and apparently itd cost a trillion dollars to fix them along with the fact that any hurricane would still be a great threat to break them, once they are broken the city instantly becomes a river, there is no city like this in the US, no city is as vulnerable, I've been to NO and Houston and throughout that area and I can assure you lower LA is basically just swampland connecting to ocean, how or why anyone would want to live out there is beyond me, but knowing the dangers and the reality that your home will likely be destroyed/severely damaged within a short amount of time if you decide to move there I say fuk it you spun the roulette wheel and lost your money/life, don't bitch that the govt didnt properly evacuate you every 2 years b/c you shouldn't have been living there in the first place. I dont build a home on the side of a volcano then expect the govt to pay for it when it gets covered in lavaComment -
I think if you choose to live in a disaster area and not carry whatever type of disaster insurance is available you should get fuked in the ass till you move or buy the insurance. Why does the tax payers always have to bail out the stupid.Comment -
there WILL be looting...believe thatComment -
Originally posted by smitch124
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In an attempt to be politically correct, hopefully the african americans heed the evacuation warnings this time so we don't have to see them floating down the river again, then here them cry about how no one helped them.Comment -
How much you want to bet the loot the f!#$% out of the stores and ATM's just like last time.
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As dreary has new orleans has become ,it is still one of the few interesting cities in the US that people in europe n have any interest in, at least interest in new orleans history.
The architecture of the french quarter,jazz,zydeco,blues, mardi gras,creole and cajun food,vaudeville,the whole storyville history.Great writers,theater, and on and on.
Louis Armstrong,marsalis,prudhomme,audubon, huey long etc.,this country would be alot blander without new orleans.
The problem is h.u.d and political correctness and idiot mayor after mayor
Its a very exciting city in a country with not alot of interesting cities but hud and the 60s "urban renewal" did alot of damage.The flooding,especially from the Mississippi has been there for years in the delta and new orleans had dealt with flooding as well from hurricanes for years.
Even during katrina the older parts of the cities,plantation area and french quarter didn't have the sort of damage ,the newer areas like ninth ward and the areas near the levees did
They built the older parts of the city to deal with flooding but hud came in and built up alot of new projects near the levees and the genius of urban renewal set in . The city that we see today is just an example poor planning and civil engineering mistakes.Sort of like the sprawl in Houston and most of Americas cities but being below sea level certainly doesn't help
Who know it may likely it will meet another architecturally beautiful cities fate like venice and eventually sink.
The mayor of new orleans at least now is saying looters end up in angola state prison,we will see.Comment -
That's if the entire police force doesn't abandon ship again.
I love New Orleans. I'm nervous to see how this plays out.Comment -
Say guys I'm a Manager for Enterprise Rent A Car and my Area manager told all the managers to try not to sell damage waiver insurance to customeres so they can pay for the damages out there pockets! So If people buy the damage waiver Enterprise would have to pay for the damages to the cars from the storm.But I still sold damage wagers because that commission goes on my check! When he told me that I was like he must be stupid!Comment -
So I shouldn't believe those Enterprise commercials when they tell us how much they love us, their customers??
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Well business is business you kind of on your own when it boils down to money! But Enterprise do take care there customers! But only so you can come back! So there not lying on that aspect, we love our customers!Originally posted by smitch124So I shouldn't believe those Enterprise commercials when they tell us how much they love us, their customers??Comment -
whats a damage wager?Comment -
Or see them looting and shooting incident people.Originally posted by JBC77Comment -
actually all the shootings and rapes reported by the media during Katrina were shitty reporting and never validated.
The gun confiscations were real, and that is pretty ****ed upComment -
I'm willing to bet foot locker gets looted again. Gotta get them FREE air jordans!! You might see me on tv I'll be the white guy with with all those shoe boxes in my arms.Comment -
I'm sorry I meant to say Damage Waiver!!!Originally posted by SlappyWhiteComment -
holland manages to make awesome levees
perhaps we could have 2 billion from one week in iraq and use it to fortify our own cities
nah, what was i thinking, then the terrorists will winComment -
They went 40 years without one before Katrina. now 2 in the last 3 years. One of the most enjoyable places to visit . Feel for those people.Comment -
its like the global climate is changing or something
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first of all the levee's have NOT been fixed completed, so New Orleans will be a puddle again...and it will flood in area's it didn't flood in 2005...
This storm is bigger than Katrina...
if people want to live in a puddle, let them, they don't need my Federal Tax dollars to rebuild AGAIN.
If you want to bitch about flooding I work in Cedar Rapids IA and we had the worsts floods so far this year....22 feet higher than normal...I've personally gone in and gutted homes and helped people remove there belongings and start to rebuild and had friends personally effected by it. Thats why you buy insurance and thats why you don't live in a flood plain if you dont' like it tough.
The amount of damage we have sustained compared to the amount of federal funding we've received is a joke.
McCain came for a tour to see the flood damage after being asked not to because the resources were needed elsewhere, he came anyways... He's never commented on the flooding in our area while campaigning....guess its not enough votes.
So thats my beef with dumbass puddle peopleComment -
When the French sold Luisiana to us they new exactly what they were doing.Comment -
+1 for pavyComment
