Oh, I would hit that one heading from my house to eat at Camilla Grill or Cooter Brown’s. It was still shells the last time I was there.
In 2007 there was a traffic signal on General De Gaulle that was flashing red for three months. The city floated the story that that one traffic signal needed one special part in order to operate and it would take six weeks for the part to arrive.
People in NOLA bought that story.
I am from NOLA and spend 4-5 months a year in the city. I love NOLA but the place in more dysfunctional than half of the third world cites I have been to...
What you said about the flashing red light reminds me of the red light cameras. They can’t get the crime cameras to work but boy they sure got those red light cameras working! I can’t figure out why(;’)
I hadn't heard that one. That's the governmental procurement process for you. Gotta find a source that's a small business, minority-owned, etc., etc., etc.
Speaking of Gen. De Gaulle Drive, that's where one of the Orleans Parish fueling stations for city vehicles is located (or Gen. Meyer - somewhere in Algiers). Because Algiers didn't flood, that was a primary source for fuel for all the surviving NOPD police cars as well as vehicles brought by other federal and state responders (including the many volunteered vehicles from other law enforcement agencies).
I heard from a cousin who works for the sheriff''s department up in De Soto Parish in July, 2006. It seems that his office actually received a bill from the City of New Orleans for the gasoline pumped into the police cars they sent down. They were kind enough to include a CD-ROM with scans of the fuel station's logsheets, with applicable license plate numbers and fuel quantities highlighted.
I shouldn't have been surprised, but I was - and angry, too. I told him they should return the bill with a suggestion that the City forward the bill to FEMA (well actually my first recommendation was that he tell the fools in Nagin's office to roll that bill up real tight, and...).
WTF are those fools at city hall thinking? Talk about thankless. Next time the city needs help, all those police departments will remember that and find that they're just too busy to be of assistance.