USNS Comfort is one of Military Sealift Command's two Hospital Ships and it is heading for New Orleans.
Posted on 08/31/2005 11:33:28 AM PDT by george wythe
Hundreds, maybe thousands, of people have died in New Orleans since Hurricane Katrina slammed into the city, Mayor C. Ray Nagin said Wednesday.
It will at least two or three months before the city has electricity. Restaurants won't be able to open; there won't be any commerce, he said during an impromptu news conference at the Hyatt Hotel.
"This is the real deal. It's not living conditions," he said.
"The only upside to this is that the debauchery which characterized this city, especially around Mardi Gras time, may mercifully have ended."
That is one of the dumbest posts I've seen on FR yet.
Is most of Uptown flooded? How about Tulane? Anyone know?
There's more jazz in Winston-Salem, NC than there was in New Orleans this past year.
I heard that too about the flood insurance. What I don't understand is why. I am a loan officer in Ohio and I can't get you a mortgage if you're in a flood zone, unless you have flood insurance. There's no way that anywhere in New Orleans, which is BELOW SEA LEVEL and ON THE COAST...would NOT be in a flood zone! The only ways that I could see a homeowner not having flood insurance is:
Home is free and clear
Home was purchased many years ago when lender did not require it
Policy was cancelled after loan closed
That doesn't help renters. I don't know if renter's policies cover flood damage to personal goods.
It's a mess, definitely.
Ditto. You can't assume that the same flow of information reaches everyone. The other factor would be the subculture which simply distrusts the MSM because of all the BS they shovel out regularly. What was being talked about this before the hurricane? The missing girl in Aruba? The media and the government have discredited themselves with their own junk thought.
LOL, just a quick thought, sorry.
Unfortunately, this isn't like SimCity where you pluck down a few zones and a building pops up, or you can click and drag a sewer sytem. It would take years upon years upon years to build infrastructure, attract commerce, plan neighborhoods, etc.
He said there are others dead in attics.
Oh my God, that is just too horrible a thought. Those poor souls in the attics; I can't imagine what their last few minutes of life were like...
...(If)I owned 5 acres worth $200,000 on the current market-if someone says "we have 110 homeowners who have sustained losses that want to divide your land into 110 parcels at $10,000 each...do the math! I'd sell!
Those would be some mighty dinky lots...under 2000 sq ft. per lot and that's before you subtract the area of the land for streets and utility easements.
It was actually predicted that New Orleans would get hit and wiped out by a storm for precisely the reasons you cite. I read the prophecy and prediction quite a while back.
Granted, it shocked me a little that it came true.
I was just looking for a new way to say that the city was above sea level when it was founded, and then sank under its own weight into the mud, even as they kept building walls to keep the "rising" water out.
I suppose with thick-enough concrete and much-modernized pumping system they could have a city they would consider safe. Maybe if they instituted a "bead tax"...
Well...considering how fast Las Vegas has developed...I think an organized effort could actually build up PDQ...
but you're right...this ain't SimCity!
OK, well cut me some slack...I was just throwing out an example.
Some did not get out.
Some did not WANT to get out. Many looters saw their opportunity to break in to jewelry stores and loot diamonds. They were right. It worked. Before we feel too bad for all those "poor people", just remember that some of them stayed to loot and made a fortune looting.
Look for them wearing the shiny new Nikes and diamonds everywehere while they stand in the free food line.
As for the truly downtrodden who could not get out, my condolences and sympathy. But I am astute enough to know there are many who wanted to stay just so they could loot the place.
Yes, and imagine the hardest hit areas like Biloxi. I fear we are going to hear numbers which will be staggering. I pray not.
I thought of that same idea.
You're right. He probably is doing all he can, but his job isn't to estimate the dead; it's to serve the living who need to know someone's in charge, not how many didn't make it. That can be focussed on after the survivors' situation is stabilized.
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