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Mayor Says New Orleans Is Better Prepared
AP via Yahoo! News ^ | 03/21/206 | Michelle Roberts

Posted on 03/21/2006 10:21:55 AM PST by GeneD

NEW ORLEANS - New Orleans is better prepared for the upcoming hurricane season because of stronger flood walls and better evacuation plans after Hurricane Katrina, Mayor Ray Nagin said in an interview Tuesday.

"We should be able to sustain another Katrina," the mayor said.

"If a Category 5 hits us, probably the city will be gone and the levees will still be standing. The work they're doing is just incredible," Nagin said of ongoing work by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

The Corps, which designed and built the city's levees, has been heavily criticized by residents who note the city survived the worst of the Aug. 29 storm but then was swamped when flood walls broke, inundating 80 percent of the city with brackish water. Many have expressed fear about the condition of the levees as the June 1 start of hurricane season approaches.

But Nagin told The Associated Press he's confident the Corps is using better materials and designs on the levees.

He also said that evacuating the city in the event of another hurricane should be smoother in the future. He said he would be in closer contact with forecasters at the National Hurricane Center so he'll know quickly whether a mandatory evacuation will be needed. The one ordered two days before Katrina hit was the city's first.

Nagin predicted residents would be more likely to comply with evacuation orders now. He said residents would be bused away from the city rather than to shelters like the Superdome, where residents were stranded in hot, dank conditions for days after Katrina hit in late August.

"People are pretty attuned to leaving if I say you have to leave, so I don't see that as being as much of a challenge," he said.

Nagin is up for re-election April 22 and facing a slate of two dozen candidates.

While campaigning, he has focused on rebuilding the city. On Monday, he endorsed a proposal that would allow all residents to rebuild homes in neighborhoods shattered by the hurricanes. An advisory commission had recommended flooded neighborhoods be replaced with parks and the city go slow in rebuilding low-lying areas.


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To: GeneD

It will help that the people who were unable or unwilling to evacuate last time have no place to return to, so they are already pre-evacuated.


21 posted on 03/21/2006 10:43:28 AM PST by CharlesWayneCT
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To: GeneD

Of course they are. There's no people in there.


22 posted on 03/21/2006 10:44:20 AM PST by CougarGA7 (Help control the liberal population. Have your liberals spayed or neutered.)
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To: GeneD
"We should be able to sustain another Katrina," the mayor said.

Good.

Because Houston can't. Houston got burned.

23 posted on 03/21/2006 10:45:45 AM PST by Allegra ("Trollspotting." A New Movie Starring a Bunch of Kitties)
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To: Allegra

Mayor of N.O...why don't he move to Chicago..that is
where his clone (Jesse Moneybags)...lives.. Jake


24 posted on 03/21/2006 10:48:26 AM PST by sanjacjake
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To: GeneD
"We should be able to sustain another Katrina," the mayor said.

Oh... the Walmart has been restocked?

25 posted on 03/21/2006 10:48:38 AM PST by RightResponse (It depends on what the defamation of Islam is .....)
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To: GeneD

Of course they're better prepared. Most of the population has already left.


26 posted on 03/21/2006 10:49:24 AM PST by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway~~John Wayne)
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To: stylin19a
um....was Katrina a CAT 5 ?

I think it was category 3 when it hit land. It was barely a category 2 over New Orleans and Lake Pontchartrain.

27 posted on 03/21/2006 10:49:26 AM PST by KarlInOhio (The tree of liberty is getting awfully parched.)
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To: GeneD

Hindsight is, of course, 20/20.

New evacuation plan for New Orleans:

The next time we have a storm bearing down on us, one which has been tracked by the Weather Channel for two weeks as it made it's way from Africa across 3,000+ miles of open ocean, and the subject of every newscast and newspaper headline for the same two weeks, is not to be trifled with.

And since your government, local, state or federal, is incapable of dealing with a stornm of Biblical proportions, then your best bet is to RUN LIKE HELL at the first mention of such a storm.

Otherwise, you have no one to blame but yourself when you voluntarily stay in a city several feet below sea level, surrounded by walls intended to keep water out, but which are not guarenteed to work, and the Mayor is going to keep several hundred school buses idle until they are swamped, rather than use them to carry you to safety,and you have to wait the whole thing out inside a sports staidum hardly designed for the purpose of granting comfortable shelter, surrounded by all the other idiots also too stupid to run, and similarly unprepared for survival.

Government cannot save you from your own, bullet-proof stupidity, and won't even make the attempt. Doing so would merely inconvenience a whole slew of government employees who you are under the mistaken impression were hired to "protect" you.

So,the ball is in your court: Either head for the hills at the first sign of danger, or, grab your ankles and kiss your backside goodbye.


28 posted on 03/21/2006 10:56:56 AM PST by Wombat101 (Islam: Turning everything it touches to Shi'ite since 632 AD...)
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To: GeneD
Mayor Says New Orleans Is Better Prepared

"We now know they keep the keys to those school buses hidden above the visors.


29 posted on 03/21/2006 10:58:47 AM PST by Yo-Yo (USAF, TAC, 12th AF, 366 TFW, 366 MG, 366 CRS, Mtn Home AFB, 1978-81)
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To: GeneD

The Mississippi, the Gulf Of Mexico and Lake Pontchartrain will sooner or later have their way, no matter what the corp of engineers does. The forces of nature can be delayed at great expense but can't be put off forever.

Pouring money down a rat hole won't save New Orleans either.


30 posted on 03/21/2006 10:58:48 AM PST by Graybeard58 (Remember and pray for Sgt. Matt Maupin - MIA/POW- Iraq since 04/09/04)
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To: GeneD

Yep Mayor Nagin, you are "better prepared" because those who you did not evacuate are gone and have not yet returned, IDIOT!


31 posted on 03/21/2006 10:59:27 AM PST by zerosix (Native Sunflower - Pies Rock)
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To: GeneD

This from the guy who thought New Orleans was prepared for Katrina.


32 posted on 03/21/2006 11:05:27 AM PST by GovernmentShrinker
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To: GeneD

He knows where the buses are this time?


33 posted on 03/21/2006 11:06:52 AM PST by Explorer24
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To: mmyers

Actually I don't think New Orleaners will wait for Nagin's (or any other politician's) evacuation order next time. Plenty of them are dimwitted and lazy, but they aren't vegetables. There will be a lot more Jabbar Gibsons.


34 posted on 03/21/2006 11:07:52 AM PST by GovernmentShrinker
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To: Allegra

Houston hasn't got any of the credit they derserve. Some libs still bash the south and Texas in particular totally ignoring the amazing support of Houston and its people. I've lived, worked, and stayed in many NE cities and I highly doubt people would've responded the way TX and Houston did.


35 posted on 03/21/2006 11:10:16 AM PST by Explorer24
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To: Yo-Yo

I was just getting ready to post the bus pic when I saw your post. Thanks!


36 posted on 03/21/2006 11:13:27 AM PST by El Gran Salseron (The FR Canteen's Resident Equal Opportunity Male Chauvinist Pig! :-))
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To: tx_eggman
>>If Houston gets hit this summer we're planning on forwarding them all on to Albuquerque.<<

Regardless of whether you mean Houstonians or New Orleanians being forwarded to Albuquerque, we will bomb and block Tijeras Canyon and send any scurrilous-looking mobs to Santa Fe.

Muleteam1

37 posted on 03/21/2006 11:15:16 AM PST by Muleteam1 (The zipcode for Austin, Taxes is $137,500,000,000)
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To: LA Woman3

Nagin was dropped on his noggin waaaaaaay too many times.


38 posted on 03/21/2006 11:18:32 AM PST by xarmydog
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To: Explorer24
I'm very proud of Houston and her accomplishments. But I have never been more proud of my town than I was when it responded to Katrina. People just gave and gave and nobody thought twice about it. Houston saw a neighbor in trouble and acted swiftly, figuring it would deal with the repercussions later. (And that's happening now...)

And we'd do it again in a heartbeat.

Thank you for acknowledging that. :-)

39 posted on 03/21/2006 11:18:47 AM PST by Allegra ("Trollspotting." A New Movie Starring a Bunch of Kitties)
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To: sanjacjake

He moved to Dallas!!!


40 posted on 03/21/2006 11:20:54 AM PST by acsrp38
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