Would it be faster to rebuild the city upstream than where it is??
Think of all the construction jobs...
That's amazing... people KNEW that the Hurricane was going to hit them. They knew it with enough days in advance. In any case, now it's time to send some help to this devastated region.
That many people did not listen to the calls to get out before. Wow, seems high.
Article published Aug 31, 2005 Mayor: hundreds, maybe thousands, dead in New Orleans. "We know there is a significant number of dead bodies in the water," Nagin said. He said there are others dead in attics. Asked for a number, he said, "Minimum hundreds, most likely thousands."
This summer I wanted to take a driving trip from New Orleans up the Mississippi delta to Nashville and then over to Virigina panhandle. But, I couldn't.
Now I can never take that same trip. There's a lot lost forever.
I wish I'd just gone on the trip.
If Katrina has not already directly cost the lives of thousands, I will be grateful for the miracle, but very much surprised.
Not something we don't already know. I can also tell you that people are not meant to bake on top of a rooftop for more than 36-48 hours. I don't think you are going to find many survivors within the next 48 hours except in Uptown and a few pockets of dry areas.
More prayers to all affected. It's mind boggling, almost incomprehensible.
New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin placed on suicide watch in wake of Hurricane Katrina
NEW ORLEANS “He looks stoned to me.” He looks like a man who can't decide whether to run away or stuff his head in the oven!” Comments like these were heard all over Louisiana as New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin made statements on TV in the midst of still-rising waters in the Big Easy.“I just don’t know why this Hurricane Katrina thing hit here. I don’t know what to do about those big holes in the levees. Being a mayor of a city at a time like this is hard work. I really can’t blame all those folks who are looting now; they need food and water and I don’t have a clue how to get it to them. I'm scared I just don't know what to do!"
Asked about the Super Dome, Mayor Nagin said, “Look, stuffing tens of thousands of people into a huge building with a fabric roof seemed like a good idea when the hurricane was coming. We knew there would be no sanitation, food, or water available there and that the whole thing could flood, but it seemed like a good idea at the time. Looking back, I guess I should not have been smoking that big bag of weed when that decision was made.”
I am not an expert on much of anything, nor did I stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night, but.
As I am given to understand, conventional propeller driven boats are at a huge disadvantage in navigating present water conditions in NOLA. I have seen a few air boats being put into use, but far too few.
I would suggest that in the US, every sales show room and manufacturing facility of jet (not engine, but where in lieu of a prop, they use a pump to propel the craft) boats be cleared out and all such craft immediately shipped down to New Orleans. This would include all PWC (personal watercraft) as these small, highly maneuverable one and two man craft can negotiate where larger boats cannot.
Utilizing the jet boats would allow much greater real time resources to be used in response to those in immediate dire need. Be it having manpower to check on those who may be trapped in attics, to deliver water, food, and medicine to those people whom cannot be removed for now.
It is time to think outside the bureaucratic box and get creative for confronting the daunting task of preventing imminent deaths.
In those areas where the water has subsided, follow up with as many ATV's as needed to check and recheck for rescues.
The only upside to this is that the debauchery which characterized this city, especially around Mardi Gras time, may mercifully have ended.
I do not have any confidence in one thing that Mayor says. He was forced to order the mandatory evacuation.
God help him because I think he is doing all he can do and obviously he is under a great deal of pressure and stress but I think he is ill-prepared and in over his head. Guiliani he is not.
I would not give out guessed figures on something this important. No doubt there are many dead. It may even get to be thousands but I think it is unwise to throw unconfirmed numbers out to the fragile LA public. Waiting a few days to get a handle on the number of dead will make no difference. Throwing a number out now just gives the media something new to exploit.
Very sad day indeed for New Orleans. Might be time to re-locate. It was probably a mistake to build it below sea level to begin with.
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.
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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...