New Orleans is now a ghost city

Daily Telegraph (Australia) ^ | 09-03-05 | Staff

[Non-Sequitur]

The absentee ballot covers the evacuees.Proving the right to vote will be the battle for the Dems.

Which raises other interesting questions. What constitutes legal residency? How will the evacuees be able to claim New Orleans addresses when those addresses don't exist anymore? This should be an interesting election in 2006, no doubt about it.

[airstrike]

Big Sleazy is now a Superfund Site/Toxic Waste Dump.

[Paleo Conservative]

However, the State did save thousands of lives by establishing Counterflow lanes on I-10 and 12.

How far did the counterflow lanes extend?

[Nathan Zachary]

Well, They could just re-build the whole city on stilts, then just let it flood. They'd never have to pave a road again. No yards with old appliances in them, Just a dock and a mud boat.

[Nathan Zachary]

"After the water is pumped out 99% of the homes will be OK with a little work and Gov't money so why does everyone keep saying it's destroyed?"

If you don't mind living in a rotting, moldy house.

[Freedom Dignity n Honor]

I hope you are being sarcastic and really don't believe what you said.

[Paleo Conservative]

Somehow I do not think any one who was smart enough to evacuate would be Dumb enough to Evacuate on I-10 East to Gulf Coast of Mississippi.

That's not what I was talking about. Were the east bound lanes converted into west bound lanes, and if so, how far did that go?

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

What do you think flooding is? You think you can just pump the water out and everything will be hunky-dory again?

Flooding is far more damaging than fires, twisters, and bombing. Once all the water is pumped out, the foundations of the buildings are still weak and are prone to collapse.

[IronMan04]

I believe the E. bound I-10 were open Contraflow from Slidell through the I-59 interchange into MS. The W. Bound was open Contraflow to the spillway west of Baton Rouge.

In any case the worst place one could have been when the Storm hit would be along the causeways out of town. The city is an island during the best of days.

[The Red Zone]

They might have stopped at a rest area on the way, for all we know. There is more than one way to send a cat to the litter box.