Just saw a PBS Lerher News Report about little being done to restore The Big Stinky.
Hospitals/schools/nursing homes/daycare centers/restaurants/businesses and homes were flooded.
The city and state governments want folks to move back.
Why move back if the aforementioned aren’t able to handle the population there now.
Medical personnel, teachers, daycare/nursing home workers and other employees need jobs
The sewers don’t drain. The electrical grid has blackouts.
The system cannot fix it fast enough.
Mosquitos/dog packs/crime are problems.
The healthcare department and police cannot cope.
The National Guard still patrols the streets.
Wouldn’t it be better to flatten it and bury it all under layers of concrete/stone/gravel/and soil??
Make it a park.
Move Nawlins.
Or add more layers to those listed above to create pathways for sewers, power and water…
so that a new and better(and higher) New Orleans could rise from the mess?
And be a test case for future projects arising from future hurricanes.
Whatever happens it will take years, no, decades to complete and repopulate, as this is the first of it’s kind!
I did note that Ray Nagin’s “Chocolate Nawlins” is still asking for help from the state and federal government.
The thing that gets me is that this has been a damn hot summer… and not one hurricane.
Air temp does not matter that much, and definitely not air temp over the US.
Winds, shear forces, and water temps in the Atlantic are the key factors.
who cares, i believe what “fitty cent” said…… (paraphrase) to hell with everyone in new orleans God came to punish them for their terrible ways. All they do is not work and kill each other anyways, once they came back crime went right up the roof again and that no excuse for a mayor couldnt do anything about it cause they are all so so so corrupt on the police force. To hell with new orleans and everyone in it-----to blackest hell. or the 7th circle of hell, L.A.
b,
Is ‘fitty’ dooming/damning NO to be as bad as LA
or
comparing the afterKatrimamath to LA wid itz gangz/crooked cop history
or whut?!
Is kinda freek that we be two months inta Hurkseazon and we got nutin’
but one Tropical Depression that doan even wanna be a TD.
I found it funny when the New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin defended the rebuilding of his city by pointing out the really really slow building of ground zero. “You guys in New York can’t get a hole in the ground fixed and it’s five years later. So let’s be fair.” He totally owned the reporter.
who cares, i believe what “fitty cent” said…… (paraphrase) to hell with everyone in new orleans God came to punish them for their terrible ways. All they do is not work and kill each other anyways, once they came back crime went right up the roof again and that no excuse for a mayor couldnt do anything about it cause they are all so so so corrupt on the police force. To hell with new orleans and everyone in it-----to blackest hell. or the 7th circle of hell, L.A.
You sure that wasn’t Pat Robertson? I get those two mixed up ALL the time.
What I don;t get is why arn’t they moving it to higher ground??? They’re in a bloody cereal bowl, and they’re the cereal!!!
Personally, I think New Orleans should be treated like any other major flood event area…
Hers is your FEMA money, no go live somewhere else. Your residence is in a flood plain, we are buying you out.
They have done it along the Missississippi, to huge areas of NC after Floyd, so why not NO that is not only below sea level, but ON THE COAST and below sea level (sometimes you just have to look at a situation and say “they are just ASKING for it”, and moving back to NO after the lesson of Katrina is not ASKING for it, it is BEGGING for it.
whole heartedly agree switch. I little part of me want to take on nature though and try to save the big easy, for the fact thats its full of history and an old city that has a huge element in america. To bad that could never happen to get them out if we cant be nature though. Any attempt would be hit by p.c. loonies who would call it racist immediatley because black people live in the city and there is a lot of them. It’s not legit or fair but thats what they say. I will say conservative didnt make this p.c. nonsense, we all reap what the liberals sowed.
The histroical parts are above sea level.
Apparently folks for the 3 centuries before the 20th C had more common sense.
What lesson was learned? Never elect liberal politicians that use money that is set aside for levy construction and use it to build casinos. The most memorable moment? Run Negan, Run! Run to Texas and get out of Dodge while your people suffer!
RB
The whole below sea level thing is why I never went and likely never will visit New Orleans. They have to pump out a light rain. the very definition of unfavorable terrain.
We talked about the levies in 1988 in some of my engineering classes. The levies never ever had a chance. Anyone who is saying “it wouldn’t take that much to rebuild them and make them better” is spinning it. My memory is a little foggy but we are talking six story building high and again as wide at the base or soemthing.
While I don’t wish to be unsympathetic in the face of catastrophe, please move to higher ground.
As for what we learned for “next time.”
What we all know, no plan survives contact with the enemy. Although it is reasonable to make a plan in the first place. And practice and drill. You get on a cruise ship you have lifeboat drills right? We had fire drills in school. You look it in the face and figure out what you have to do to beat it or at least not lose to it and you practice it. And if you aren’t willing to undertake that then you hope you are as lucky “next time” as the first time.
So, where do we draw the line on places that should be inhabited?
What of:
California & San Andreas fault, or even the coast with rising water levels
Any city in the “Tornado Alley”
New York as a target of terrorist attack
Southwest with it’s brush fires
Hawaii with its active volcanoes and remote location (also the fact that it’s a chain of islands)
I think there’s many reasons to keep people from living somewhere (e.g. see: Love Canal), but nature rarely is so inhospitable as to not be accommodating. It’s their money. They may have to pay more on insurance and more to protect their investments/purchases, but they can choose where to live (for the most part).
We talked about the levies in 1988 in some of my engineering classes. The levies never ever had a chance. Anyone who is saying “it wouldn’t take that much to rebuild them and make them better” is spinning it. My memory is a little foggy but we are talking six story building high and again as wide at the base or soemthing.
That doesn’t sound too difficult in reference to some of the engineering marvels that have occurred in human history…
How about just giving them a disclaimer that if you live here, and mother nature kills you, destroys your stuff and/or makes your life hell, you cannot come to the federal government for assistance?
Now you’re free to be a moron, but the government is protected from your idiocy through legislation you signed when you moved there.
So we are out for only ourselves? We should watch people die and say, that will show them. So if anyone in America is attacked, be it terrorists or mother nature, no one should help them? I am not religious at all and I think that is an asinine way of looking at life. It is one thing to build a home in a flooded area but what of tornados or huge floods like '94.
So we are out for only ourselves? We should watch people die and say, that will show them. So if anyone in America is attacked, be it terrorists or mother nature, no one should help them? I am not religious at all and I think that is an asinine way of looking at life. It is one thing to build a home in a flooded area but what of tornados or huge floods like '94.
No one said that. Straw man if I ever heard one.
What I was saying was that we KNOW New Orleans is in a bowel below sea level. We KNOW that a hurricane can hit it. We KNOW they cannot take adequate measures against this with any reasonable certainty.
Thus, if you WANT to live there, you do so at your own risk. Don’t EXPECT any help from teh government because YOU chose to live in a death trap. You’ll probably still get some, but don’t expect it. Actually, you should sign away your rights to it during teh closing process on your home/lease, just so you are dead sure to have been told you are on your own if you live there.
Sorry, but stupidity in the populace is not a liability the government should have to pay for. It’s this typical liberal philosiphy that the US Govvernment should be mommy and daddy to every Tom, Dick and Harry and bale you out of trouble every time you fall down that has gotten us our overly inflated debt and poor GDP and excessive taxes (though not as excessive as Europe’s!)
By your logic, Jen, screw everyone in WTC for continue to work there after it was bombed in the 90’s. They should have known better.
That is exactly what I was saying Jermo.
Jen, I am pretty sure you are religious. Can you tell me that you can watch people die, be it any situation, flood, tornado, terrorist, ect. and not care at all? You do not feel sad at all and wish to help them? As for the liberal view of government comment, what is the role of government? Is it not to help protect society, all of our society, not the few or many, but all. America became the world power house that it is today through the ideas of democrats like Woodrow Wilson and FDR, expanding the roles of the government. The idea of a conservative government died with the stock market crashing in 1929. The limited government watched the poor get poorer and the rich get richer. After that, the government decided that without its help, that America would turn into chaos. The government then got involved with big business to ensure that it would not fail. If the businesses fail, then the government fails. They watch out for each now. So, let us go to a conservative government then Jen, where the government does very little and the greed of people will destroy democracy.
By your logic, Jen, screw everyone in WTC for continue to work there after it was bombed in the 90’s. They should have known better.
Terrorism isn’t the same as recurring natural disasters and you know it.
When the mississippi floods we tell people to get their own flood insurance so they arn’t a liability to the government. I am saying we do the same in New Orleans. Stop trying to make it sound like I advocate the public flogging of 3 year olds already. I’m not comming out with some radicle statement or idea that hasn’t been done in the country before.
And yes I am religious. I believe it is the responsibility of the citizens to donate what they can (like they did) to assist victems of natural disasters. It’s not the duty of the government.
