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.
Uh huh. Stipulating that, why should I believe your numbers? Nagin may be a just another incompetent politician, but I'd hazard a guess that he has more inside information than you do.
Now that the skids of eminent domain have been sufficiently greased by the Supreme Court, this shouldn't be a problem at all.
"Please pray with me for United States of America-hurricane"
Prayers for Romulus, Askel 5, and others from New Orleans and Louisiana
Prayers for the Victims of Hurricane Katrina
Catholic Caucus: Virgin of Prompt Succor - Hurricanes and Dangers
How about a Prayer for the Kat Hurricane folks Drstevej former freeper
Read your profile page. God bless you and your family, you are the backbone of this country.
No kidding. What is wrong with some people?
Just.... Let.... Gooooooo......
You also have folks (like around here) who've lived through near miss after near miss after near miss.
Then the few storms that did blow over were lightweight 2's or 3's....
Honestly, I can see where lots of folks would be thinking "Nah, it won't be that bad, it'll be just like last time."
Yeah, we've got plenty of jazz around here too (some of it is sitting on my piano) but she may never have a chance to get to Preservation Hall again . . .
Well, allegedly, during the Middle Passage the most upsetting moment for the enslaved was losing sight of land and seeing only water in every direction. English sailors accustomed to spending as long as six months at sea without disembarking found their fear amusing.
Africans were not in the habit of going very far off the coast under any circumstances.
He did look stoned on monday.
The trip through rual Mississippi to NO was terrible. Hundreds of miles of nothing. Run down shacks, towns, farms, fields. Nothing worth stopping and seeing.
Ain't it the truth. What a life.
Those ships can dock next to the Superdome with no trouble.
Uptown is one of the few areas which has largely remained dry. From what I've gathered from reading the Times-Picayune web forums, the Uptown area south of St. Charles has avoided flooding. There were reports of 3-4 feet of water in the area of Napoleon and Claiborne, though.
I just took a look, and found one poster reporting no flooding around Tulane. Updates concerning Tulane are being posted at www.tulanegreenwave.com..
I have no doubt that the city will be rebuilt. I also have no doubt that many will try to recapture the aura of antediluvian New Orleans.
I also have no doubt that the flood will become part of the city's history and culture, and in coming years will no doubt be woven into its story. We're far too close to it right now to understand in full how it will play out. Perhaps in a hundred years we'll hear tourguides pointing out an area and saying, "this was under 20 feet of water before we knew how to build reactive flood walls."
One can dream, can't one?
This kind of thing apparently happened - but I don't get it.
The first thing I would do if I were up to my waist in water in an attic would be to swim down to a window and kick it out.
I guess it's tough to think clearly when it's completely dark and the water is rising around you.
The poster above is right though -- Galveston was THE PORT west of NO before the storm of 1900, after that the Houston Ship Channel was dredged (I bet some of the mud was used to raise the island) and Galveston never regained its former prominence. It's a party island now... that's more or less all, and as every one knows, the beach ain't that nice, but they've done as well as they could with it. Very poor population, not altogether dissimilar to what we see in NO.
A x B x 66,631 = Casualties in the Parish, where
A = per cent not evacuating
B = per cent that can't swim very well after 24 hours
66,631 = Population of Parish in 1990 Census
Good grief. New Orleans is in a hurricane-prone area. It was bound to get hit eventually. There is no reason to believe that this was divine vengeance.
I've been wanting to say something along those lines for a while now, just didn't know how to say it.
bears repeating: I frankly have never been disgusted by the tenor of many posters here until this event
I've been there many times, stayed in the Quarter and had a great time, with many great memories. It was (is) an intrigueing city. The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly. The natives, the tourists, the shops, the architecture, and the history...
Our last trip down there two years ago we also rented a car and drove to Pass Christan and the Gulf coast for the day. My girlfriend likes this little shop with all sorts of girly nick knacks, survived Camile, I suspect it gone now. And the Marina down the road, right before Biloxi where we had lunch on a beautiful day on their large deck and I called my friend back home while sucking down briney oysters fresh from the Gulf and cold beers, while he was back home braving snow storms.... also gone no doubt...
Memories and Good Times....
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