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.
They were asking for jet skis yesterday, because the motors were getting tangled on the debris in the water or were hitting the ground and the boats were to big to get into many places they needed to go.
All I could think of was my father cussing up a storm every time something got sucked into his jet ski, say a rope for instance, and the hours it took him, furious in the water, trying to get it out and unstuck.
Any boat you need to paddle would probably be the best in the mess of New Orleans streets. It might be slow but will take less time in the long run that you will need constantly fixing a motor or unclogging jet boat, not to mention the gas problem or the need of mechanics on hand.
Tell that to the drowned.
I have no idea what you are talking about.
They probably should go even further NW than Baton Rouge.
In addition to the danger from flooding, New Orleans also faces the threat of losing the Mississippi channel to the Atchafalaya. Moving the city now close to the point where the Atchafalaya branches off will better-position the city for the day when that happens. And the Corps should go ahead and build a separate canal that parallels that stream so they don't have to levee it and create the subsidence problems that levees caused around the current channel.
They should build further inland. If they build on the same spot, they deserve to drown.
Are you kidding? Is Panama City FLA still around? How about Cancun. Anywhere you have spring break, you've got Mardi Gras.
Wow, Imagine a giant wall of debris stacked up like Rosie O'donnel bearing down on you.
I laughed so hard at this my sides hurt - thank you!
It's been done, albeit on a much smaller scale: http://www.soldiersgrove.com/village_history.htm
Yes the people help each other seems to only apply to a few. These people looting could be helping rescue people.
Agree.
However, the numbers currently seem bo be below 1,000 dead. That's pretty light if you ask me.
Maybe that was 600 people staying to loot.
30,000 did not.
wait until this water receeds.
We have to be prepared for an absolute nightmare.
Again, I agree.
New Orleans may be done as a city.
My mother works in Branson, MO for a business with an office in NO. They brought their NO employees into Branson this week, and they'll be working from there.
They've got this little place called "Baton Rouge" about 80 miles upstream.
"Does the mayor still have a job?"
Ha! Does the mayor still have a city?
The shocking thing is how many submerged cars are being shown on the videos of NO. Most of them are on the roads or in parking lots, indicating that they were fully functional before the flood. That means a lot of the people who could and should have evacuated didn't. That, and the looting, causes me to have a lot less sympathy for many of those who remain than I otherwise would have.
Time to make NO the designated lanfill site for the country.
Just rename Baton Rouge...to New New Orleans!
Is there an actual official estimated death toll yet?
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