It should read "Every Load Goes Somewhere"
Wish I knew how to Photoshop
Posted on 05/21/2011 7:49:45 AM PDT by Kartographer
Like little kids, we all experience a happy rush, a delighted thrill, when going to play at an amusement park. Yet when an amusement park is abandoned and an eerie silence settles over the rusty and crusty decay, the setting seems to twist the atmosphere of enthusiastic excitement into a suffocating blanket of dread. The place takes on creepy vibes and freaks people out. In 2005, Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans and ripped the heart of fun and the amusement out of this park. Almost six years later, Six Flags in New Orleans is unnaturally silent, no lines and no laughter. This 140-acre surreal setting has morphed into a nightmarish land of twisted dreams.
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I hear you. We’ve got the same problem here in NJ, folks just don’t like to bring it up. The Six Flags here is a magnet on any given day for tons of gang-bangers, mostly MS-13. It must be ‘’Gang-Bangers Family Day’’ because there’s always loads of these cockroaches and the wives and kids out all over the place. They practically take over the place.
It’s probably an HDR image with the color tweaked in photoshop.
Six Flags Under Water
According to Wikipedia:
“The land, owned by the city of New Orleans, was leased to and operated by Six Flags. After Hurricane Katrina, Six Flags sought to end its lease on the site. The owners claimed the park must remain shut down as long as outstanding claims with insurance companies remain unsettled.[1]
On August 18, 2009, it was announced that the land would be re-developed into a Nickelodeon-branded water/theme park.[2]
On September 18, 2009, the city of New Orleans fined Six Flags $3 million and ordered the park to vacate its lease.[3]
As of early 2010, the site was overgrown with debris and weeds. Removal of the debris and underbrush had begun.[4]
As of April 11, 2010, the site was still shut down with no future clear, since New Orleans officially now owns the property and the plans for the Nickelodeon-branded theme park fell through three months after bonds failed to come through.[5]
As of October 2010, Southern Star Amusement Inc. was still working to recover the park.”
Ask Mayor Willy Wonka.
My sister lives in Houston. I don't remember the name of the hurricane, but I think it was the year after Katrina.
When the power went out and was expected to be out for several days, there was no looting in her neighborhood. The homeowners got the food of of their freezer, pulled out their grills and hosted one giant neighborhood block party. It was actually sort of fun and made use of a resource which otherwise would have gone to waste.
As a bonus, all the people in the streets for the big block party kept any looters from outside the neighborhood out.
She also told me that when some of the NOLA residents camped at the Astrodome had worn out their welcome, Houston set up a limited time offer to get most of them one way airline tickets out of town.
We had a good hearted family friend in rural Montana who offered to host one of these families and couldn't believe how jaw-droppingly shiftless they were.
After about a week, they told them to either start helping with the family chores (nothing difficult, just routine stuff any rural family does from the time the kiddies are able to walk) or find another place to live. They took the one way bus ride out of town instead.
The Superbowl sort of went like that. Visitors were directed to events up in North Dallas, Plano & even Frisco to steer people away from south of I-20.
Fiesta Texas in San Antonio is now off our list. No visible gangs yet but Mexicans reign supreme. No American music. Smelled really bad when we were there. Very rude people. About half in the wave pool had all their clothes on instead of bathing suits, remnants of food everywhere. It’s good the park in Houston was closed as the gangs had begun to move in. Too bad because it was in a great place and the gang activity could have been controlled. Seems strange to have such a large city with absolutely no theme parks of any sort.
I’d never heard of Six Flag New Orleans.
Beautiful but sad pictures.
It should read "Every Load Goes Somewhere"
Wish I knew how to Photoshop
The pic looks like one of Detroit’s finer skyline views of Obama city planning and urban renewal!
Many of the people I talk to from church groups that went to NO to help after Katrina, complained that much of their time was wasted filling out government forms (FEMA) for these people so that they could get free stuff. Then they loudly complained when stuff was slow to arrive.
47% of the people in the city of NO cannot read or write...just like Detroit.
(I guess reading/writing is acting to White)
A lot of refugees from New Orleans went to Camp Chaffee in Fort Smith, Arkansas.
There was an offer / request for volunteers to go there to help out as hosts to the refugees. The reality was that they wanted people to be servants for the refugees. Cook, clean, clean bathrooms, make beds etc. All things the able bodied refugees could have done for themselves.
Not all but enough of the refugees were abusive to the point of FORGET IT and I’m out of here by all the volunteers I knew of. It was a pitiful mess.
Changing the course of the Mississippi and abandoning NOLA would be a good idea but for the economic damage that would be created to the industries along the river. NOLA is a crap hole.
It is in a fairly remote part of the city. There’s surely a lot of other vacant commercial land too.
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