Posted on 08/30/2005 4:08:23 PM PDT by gondramB
With conditions in the hurricane-ravaged city of New Orleans rapidly deteriorating, Gov. Kathleen Blanco said Tuesday that everyone still in the city, now huddled in the Superdome and other rescue centers, needs to be evacuated.
"The situation is untenable," Blanco said, pausing to choke back tears at a news conference. "It's just heartbreaking."
The breach of two levees Tuesday meant the city was rapidly filling with water and the prospect of having power was a long time off, the governor said. She said the storm also severed a major water main, leaving the city without drinkable water.
"The goal is to bring enough supplies to sustain the people until we can establish a network to get them out," Blanco said.
FEMA is considering putting people on cruise ships, in tent cities, mobile home parks, or so-called floating dormitories, boats FEMA normally uses to house its own employees, said Coordinating Director Bill Lokey.
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It is being reported that the "SHOOT TO KILL" order has finally come down. It's about time.
I know I very nice place in Iraq that would be a great place for the NEW New Orleans...
But on a more serious note, you are correct sir--Uncle Sam should spend a wooden nickle on rebuilding NO...just let the gators & sharks have what's left.
Same with Gulfport and Biloxi...condemn everything within one mile of the beach, and let Mother Nature have her natural hurricane barrier back.
I think it's high time to stop building ANYTHING except concrete bunkers along the Gulf of Mexico.
Imagine what he'll do to the blue states!
Problem is, some idiots over at DU are probably already discussing this!
Yes, all serious and shaking with anger and hurling threats of violence and believing that men control the weather with machines. If the democrats they worship are so mighty and good, why haven't they devised their own weather control machines to fix global warming or counteract the evil weather machines of Dick Cheney? (I really hope one of the DUmmies is reading these threads...)
New Orleans evacuation "plan"...
Be sure to take an axe to your attic with you.
NO is was a major seaport and historic site...
We've got plenty of other historic sites in the nation, as much as I've always loved NO, I could go without seeing it drained and rebuilt.
Ever notice how Limbaugh will suggest something totally ridiculous in jest and a short time later liberals will actually attempt it?
We will see this, believe me.
Yes, no problem if evacuation order was given in 48hrs before the disaster instead of 24.
1 mil did evacuate in 24 hrs.
If 1 million people did evacuate in 24 hrs, then 1.4 mil would have evacuated easily in 48 hrs wouldn't they?
100000 mostly poor and elderly with no transportation was left, governor and mayor has not lift a finger to help those people.
Learn the facts before you question somebody's opinion.
If they should be so insane to rebuild NO, perhaps they can build it on a giant floating platform...just like those casinos in Gulfport and Biloxi (well, they at least stayed afloat!)...then the next time a big one hits, the entire city of NO can just wash up in Arkansas...
They fall for it everytime and insist he was serious and somehow deceitful. Because they are so deceitful, that is all they can see, and how they view things.
Learn the facts before you question somebody's opinion.
The fact is you really don't have the brainpower to get your mind around the monumental task you are advocating especially when the final stage will be done under hurricane conditions.
Cruise ship??? What Co. is going to donate a ship? It would be scrapped to the bone.
We may not have much of a choice in this matter. I can see eventually the city abandoned and destroyed and a replacement city being built up river after the Army Corp of Engineers dredges out a completely new Mississippi River Delta. A project that will cost as much as US$2 trillion dollars.
Because, even with its problems, it is there. It is real estate...you don't abandon the 12th largest city in the country, esp one with a rich heritage and long history like New Orleans..
Rebuilding on another site would cost 100 times as much. Even with all the destruction from the hurricane, many of the buildings are either standing or at least has something left on which to rebuild.
I know the I-10 bridge is decimated over Lake Ponchartrain, but what of the Lake Ponchartrain Causeway between Metarie and Mandeville and/or the bridge across the Bonnet Carre Spillway?
Maybe they'll elect Bobby Jindal next time...
speaking of N.O. even Marc Morial was better at managing the city during the past storms (not that they were half the threat Katrina is, but he made right calls when time came).
Friday afternoon at 2 p.m. EDT, 1 p.m. CDT, is when the first reports of NO being the target came across the wire.
New Orleans was founded in 1718. For most of its almost 300 years it has survived despite mosquitoes, swamps, floods and yes even hurricanes.
It will continue to do so.
Prisoners seated on the highway.
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