Posted on 01/26/2018 1:48:43 PM PST by JoeProBono
The storm drains of New Orleans got a thorough cleaning over the past few months and among the trash and debris, workers found 93,000 pounds of Mardi Gras beads, city officials said Thursday.
The 46 tons of beads were all found in the popular downtown thoroughfare on St. Charles between Poydras Street and Lee Circle, the Times-Picayune reported.
While the vast amount of Mardi Gras beads indicate good times were had in the area, city officials said it also means litter needs to be decreased. Overall, the $22 million, three-month clean-up project yielded 7.2 million pounds of debris in city drains.
"Once you hear a number like that, you never go back - so we have to do better," said Dani Galloway, interim director of the city's Department of Public Works, the New Orleans Advocate reported.
I was there last year...probably the final Saturday of the season. St. Charles Street looks like the worlds most tacky pinata exploded over the city at the end of each parade day.
And that’s not all exposed anymore there.
The first one in New Orleans was January 6th. I was there.
2018 Mardi Gras Parade Schedule
Saturday, January 6, 2018
Phunny Phorty Phellows 7:00 p.m. Uptown
Krewe du Vieux 6:30 p.m. French Quarter
Krewe Delusion Follows French Quarter
I attended Mardi Gras in 1965 for the last time when I briefly lived on Lee Circle, in New Orleans, overlooking the statue of Robert E Lee that was just removed
Sinkhole de Mayo party on Canal St.: When life hands you sinkholes, make margaritas
The invite on Facebook to the first-ever Sinkhole de Mayo party on Canal Street reads: "Celebrate another 'Catastrophic Failure' the best way we know how: dancing, drinking, and general revelry. Bring your instruments, sombreros and margaritas, bring your traffic cone pinatas, and your makeshift maracas."
Co-organizer Carson Rapose has a serious-sounding job by day: He works for Capital One, doing financial intelligence. But the New Orleans transplant, who has lived here since 2011 after getting out of the Navy, has fully embraced New Orleans.
Canal Street sinkhole a 'catastrophic failure
A sinkhole that opened up at the foot of Canal Street Friday (April 29) will take up to six months and $5 million to repair.
Rapose says he and his friends who helped organize the event do not have a permit for the Sinkhole de Mayo party, scheduled to start Thursday (May 5) at 4 p.m. at the Canal Street sinkhole.
Excuse me, but it's "fewer beads," not "less beads."
I Hate These Word Crimes
(signed)
Your Friendly Neighborood Grammar Nazi
P.S. Letting you off with a warning this time, but don't let it happen again.
Yeah, that was about how it was!
New Orleans residents have gotten creative with the city’s potholes over the years. We’ve seen everything from potholes filled with oyster shells to celebrations surrounding the gaping pits in our pavement.
An exhibit resurrected this morning in the Bywater, on the cross-section of Gallier and Royal, may be the most offensive yet.
The attraction includes four phallic cardboard cutouts and a blow up doll with a sign that reads, “Plug my hole.”
The exhibit instructs offended citizens to call “529-2837,” the number for the Sewage and Water Board of New Orleans.
I’ve spent a pretty good bit of time in New Orleans but never during Mardi Gras. Now I’m too old and ornery to get around that many people.
New Orleans IS 7.3 million tons of debris.
Those appear to be defective - each side has a hole in the middle.
This year’s beads may have a slight odor.
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Must be lottsa sore necks that they got ripped off of.
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>> “Surprised they didn’t find a couple dozen bodies.” <<
Maybe thye did, but it wasn’t surprising enough to mention?
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I’m surprised they didn’t find any bodies.
Fewer ? It just don’t flow, yo.
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