Mayor Says New Orleans Is Better Prepared

AP via Yahoo! News ^ | 03/21/206 | Michelle Roberts

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

The Chocolate City is ready to rock and roll!

[Allegra]

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.

Thanks. Good to know that if the kindest city in the USA gets hit, we can count on our neighbors.

Actually, we Houstonians can take care of ourselves. We're just made that way. We even take care of others when they need it.

[Neville72]

Just for fun last week I sent a letter to a friend of mine who lives in New Orleans.

It had the correct street address and zip code but instead of New Orleans, Louisiana it read Chocolate City, Louisiana.

He got it right on time. BWAAAHAHAHAHA.

[acsrp38]

The LEVEES didn't break!! The CANAL WALLS did!!!

The canals are built and maintained by the city and state levee boards, and their contractors (lots of brother in law deals)

[Zavien Doombringer]

You are right, but any intelligent human being doesn't need to be told to evacuate when they see distruction coming...

[Muleteam1]

>>Actually, we Houstonians can take care of ourselves. <<

Family members who live at Lufkin tell me how some Houstonians took care of themselves when they came north during Rita. It was not a pretty sight. Not to doubt your statement about Houston being a kind city, but I've lived in Houston and in New Orleans and "kindness" is not a word that comes to my mind in regard to either of these cities. I'll make this concession however. If you ever have to evacuate Houston in the future, contact me and prove that you are a Freeper and you and your family will be very welcome at my Albuquerque home.

Muleteam1

[OrioleFan]

I wonder, when the canal walls break again, how much cocoa Mayor Nagin has to dump into the floodwaters to turn New Orleans into the chocolate city he envisions.

[OldFriend]

Oh my, does anyone take Nagin seriously?

Who would trust his judgement?

[kingu]

The LEVEES didn't break!! The CANAL WALLS did!!!

In the southern parishes, levees certainly did. But I could have sworn I read that the levee walls were over topped on the southeastern end prior to the Industrial Canal actually breaking, as well as the levee walls north of the city being over topped west of the canal that broke. But you're correct, the federal levees around the city of New Orleans held.

[CedarDave]

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.

Better head up down South 14 to I-40 and man the barricades!

[Tijeras_Slim]

I'll drive south and tell the Chilili residents that they're all realtors and developers! Not a one will survive.

[Emmet Fitzhume]

Now that was funny!

:-)

[Explorer24]

I was truly inspired by it. As a life-long northerner (who's making his way down south), my ignorance made me vulnerable to stereotypes. Seeing the heart of Texas was very inviting.

[Muleteam1]

>>Better head up down South 14 to I-40 and man the barricades!<<

Blocking the Canyon may be a bad idea. Maybe a detour sign at Clines Corners like this?

[WasDougsLamb]

Mayor Says New Orleans Is Better Prepared


----Make up your mind. Are you better prepared or not?

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1600614/posts

[buck61]

Huston will suffer for yrs. due to their charity to these criminals.

[Allegra]

They weren't all criminals. In fact, most of them weren't. I met a lot of them at the Astrodome. I happened to be home right when Katrina hit. Most of the evacuees were decent people who had lost everything. Several of them asked me where they could find jobs. I observed teachers and nurses being hired there at the Dome. I met cab drivers, bus drivers, restaurant cooks, etc. who were all looking for jobs during my short time there.

Yes, we got a lot of their thugs and criminals, too. But as usual, the bad guys get all the press. Most of them were decent people just wanting to make a living like you and I.

If the same thing happened again, Houston would help out again.

And I wouldn't have it any other way.