New Orleans mayor: Please don't come home yet

NEW ORLEANS — Anxious evacuees across the country clamored to come home Tuesday after Hurricane Gustav largely spared New Orleans and southern Louisiana, but were cautioned to wait for the restoration of power and other critical services knocked out by the storm.

Standard ops: once you voluntarily evacuate, the authorities are in control and will let you back in to resume working to pay their salaries when they get da** good and ready to let you back in.

I find it reprehensible. My property, my risk. Its not up to them to deny me from coming back. Hence, I wouldn’t leave in the first place, knowing how they are.

What about some of these folks with no family and no money? Where exactly are they supposed to be while the city tries to right itself? I am sure they left for what they hoped was as most a day....

I have the feeling that the return is going to be worse than the exit in the views of the whiners who always find something to complain about.

We have some Gustav refugee relatives at home now and were watching coverage all weekend and labor day. We were laughing at some of the "LaTeshas" complaining about how hot it was and how uncomfortable her pregnant cousin was while waiting for a bus to take them out of town.

Whore-aldo "The Media Whore" Rivera didn't disappoint us yesterday either.

So,hypothetically, they “choose” to go back to N.O. right now! The three other named storms hot on the heels of Gustav hit with a vengeance. Conditions in the city then make it impossible to evacuate the thousands of hard headed Naginites and humanly impossible to furnish their modern conveniences after the storms hit. - THEY, however, being socialist prisoners of a corrupt socialist system, run out in the streets with a fury, looting, hollering “What’s wrong with Bush? Why ain’t the gubmint fixin’ this?” - Again, the levees, battered by wave after wave of billions of gallons of water from storm upon storm, break. Hundreds of those who “chose” to return to N.O. are drowned. Again, Bush is blamed for not “caring” enough. For not sending in enough helicopters to evacuate thousands upon thousands of those who want what they want NOW and chose to return in the face of folly.

Nagin predicted that Gustav was “the MOTHER of all storms” and was put in the limelight of N.O. evacuation. He loves the limelight, and even the exalted liberal mayor of N.O. could not predict what Mother Nature would do. - He is NOT God, neither is President Bush. - Jindal acted as the Governon of an entire state, not just a city that is built in a bowl, below sea level.

A lot of New Orleaninians escaped N.O. for good after Katrina. Would that they all would just quit demanding the expenditure of such gargantuan resources to shore up their “chosen” lifestyle, and GET OUT OF THE CITY FOR GOOD!
Muffalettas are okay, but they’re not THAT good.

I totally agree. I live in a suburb right outside of NO and we are currently staying at a Huntsville, Ala hotel. I was just in touch with my neighbor who stayed home, and he told me that my house is OK and that we have electricity. There is no reason that I can think of to stay here one more day. Like you say, it’s my property, my risk. After Katrina, the Sheriff’s deputies didn’t do a very good job preventing looting from occurring, so we want to get home and watch over our own property and belongings. Besides, staying at hotels is expensive and we have 4 dogs in tow. I am VERY ANXIOUS to get home. It took us 13 hours to get here in what should have been no more than a 6 hour drive. I hope it doesn’t take that long to get back.

Muffalettas are okay, but they’re not THAT good.

You can make a muffeletta anywhere, no doubt.

This particular point is that NO was not flooded or damaged significantly. The stated reason for extending the evacuation is to pick up power lines and debris.

This is not just an NO attitude...its everywhere, I have noticed. Happenes in NC, SC, all over after something like a hurricane.

Everybody has storms and everybody pitches in to help clean up...or they used to.

Somehow, “authorities” have assumed they are in charge of children who are helpless and need to have this all done for them because 1] its too dangerous and 2]someone somewhere will sue the bejeezus out of the city because there were no services or somesuch.

Somehow it is “safe” for “authorities” to be there, for newsies to be there for the residents who stayed to be there but not for the ones who left to return, clean up and in some cases, protect their property.

Just don’t get it...well, I do, but I refuse to buy into it.

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