Blocking the Canyon may be a bad idea. Maybe a detour sign at Clines Corners like this?
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.
The Chocolate City is ready to rock and roll!
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.
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.
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)
You are right, but any intelligent human being doesn't need to be told to evacuate when they see distruction coming...
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
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.
Who would trust his judgement?
Better head up down South 14 to I-40 and man the barricades!
I'll drive south and tell the Chilili residents that they're all realtors and developers! Not a one will survive.
Now that was funny!
:-)
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.
Blocking the Canyon may be a bad idea. Maybe a detour sign at Clines Corners like this?
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
Huston will suffer for yrs. due to their charity to these criminals.
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.
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