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.
Quote: People who don't leave generally because they fear that if they do the govt. won't let them back into the area to protect/salvage what little they have left from looters & the elements.
One guy was interviewed this morning and said the reason he did not leave was because he knew for 100% certaiantity that his house would be looted by the neighbors-bad area.
He said it was gamble either way so he stayed and was rescued off his roof.
Must be terrible to live under those conditions/area.
Not to worry. Lots of illegal aliens will be heading to NO and Mississippi, looking for employment.
Sorry, that was a tongue-in-cheek response. ;-)
(groan)
Do you have evidence that the death toll is this low, or are you just pulling those numbers out of thin air? Why should I believe your numbers are more credible than Nagin's?
Tourism,gambling,maritime shipping imports/exports of petroleum/crude oil agricultural products like wheat /soybeans.
so what is the groan about??
How many businesses can afford to be offline for four months? The businesses located in N.O. will be relocating as fast as they can get bank loans and insurance claims to pay for it. They'll set up shop in Baton Rouge, Mobile, Atlanta, wherever. But they won't be returning to N.O. That's a critical factor - if there's no job market, the people won't move back in at all.
Well, there's a reason they use airboats down there. Jets can be useful in shallow water conditions, but they have a nasty tendency to suck up debries into the intake and clog the impeller. And if you've noticed the pics, there's a TON of debries floating around.
Right, alot of it will be lost, much of it forever. That's what makes the rebuild so crucial. I would go to visit a rebuilt NOLA, it won't be quite the same, but it can be recaptured kind of the way Europe rebuilt after WWII. I've never seen the original and now I won't be. To really recover, a fast, safer rebuild to try to woo lost tourism. Otherwise it's just a nice lake.
I don't know how all those people will get by without their jobs and all their possessions lost. They had entire 'poor' parishes, now how many more will be newly destitute? I can't imagine. They say a lot didn't have, or couldn't get!, flood insurance. That will be one giant stumbling block in rebuilding the tourist area. It will affect, I believe, our nation's economy and not just because of the oil. I'm not an economist, but I think the theories of trickle down economics and macro-economics as it pertains to our nation can be seen working here. Already the Landrieu types have their talons out and are pointing fingers of blame, instead of working on ways to rebuild and get the place running again, which will ultimately benefit her citizens in ways far greater than any government relief, although much needed, ever could. I guess it's the old battle between the nanny state dems and the republicans.
Yeah, and they shouldn't have built that doggone tower in Pisa at an angle, either. Didn't they know that was dangerous?
How do you propose to protect the rescuers from the looters, now that they have armed themselves?
No, the French Quarter and nearby historic areas will be one of the areas rebuilt, along with repairs to the major industrial facilities, such as the refineries. Too much investment to abandon. And there will be housing and support businesses rebuilt for persons who work in those areas. But much of the white collar business will move elsewhere, many of the retirees won't return, so the service sector and the population it supports will be far smaller. WAG, within a couple of years NOLA will be functioning fairly fine, but at about 1/2 the population.
Were you this maudlin when Al Hirt and Pete Fountain left?
Black people aren't deprived of opportunities to learn to swim. I don't know one way or another if they don't take to water, but a lack of opportunities wouldn't be the explanation.
The mayor should break that figure down:
--how many died due to the flood
--how many died due to lawlessness? How many died due to gunshot wounds?
--how many died due to your failure, mayor, to have honest policemen? I saw your policemen taking part in the looting. They should have beenb stopping the looting but instead became looters themselves. How many died, mayor, due to yor failure of sound and firm leadership?
damn...this storm has sure proven to be exponentially worse than I first figured after the winds weakened.
In the NYC area there are miles and miles of free public beaches and an extensive system of free public pools as well as swimming pools in most high schools.
Yet most black kids in NYC never learn how to swim. It's a deep-rooted cultural thing - not a "lack of opportunity."
One of the most comic things at public pools in NYC is seeing black 17 or 18 year olds sitting on the edge of the pool or standing around in the shallow end while Hispanic and Russian 7 and 8 year olds dive into the deep end over and over again like maniacs.
Don't know why.
And West Indians have literally no excuse.
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