Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

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.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: Louisiana
KEYWORDS: nagin
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-57 last
To: GeneD

The Chocolate City is ready to rock and roll!


41 posted on 03/21/2006 11:21:17 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Now is the time for all good customes agents in Tiajunna to come to the aid of their stuned beebers!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Muleteam1
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.

42 posted on 03/21/2006 11:22:31 AM PST by Allegra ("Trollspotting." A New Movie Starring a Bunch of Kitties)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 37 | View Replies]

To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

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.


43 posted on 03/21/2006 11:30:07 AM PST by Neville72 (uist)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 41 | View Replies]

To: kingu

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)


44 posted on 03/21/2006 11:31:42 AM PST by acsrp38
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 12 | View Replies]

To: mmyers

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


45 posted on 03/21/2006 11:53:20 AM PST by Zavien Doombringer (Mr. Franklin, what form of customes did you create in Tiajunna? A beeber, Madam, if you can stune it)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 8 | View Replies]

To: Allegra
>>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

46 posted on 03/21/2006 11:53:44 AM PST by Muleteam1 (The zipcode for Austin, Taxes is $137,500,000,000)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 42 | View Replies]

To: GeneD

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.


47 posted on 03/21/2006 11:56:02 AM PST by OrioleFan (Republicans believe every day is July 4th, DemocRATs believe every day is April 15th. - Reagan)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: GeneD
Oh my, does anyone take Nagin seriously?

Who would trust his judgement?

48 posted on 03/21/2006 11:58:25 AM PST by OldFriend (HELL IS TOO GOOD FOR OUR MAINSTREAM MEDIA)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: acsrp38
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.
49 posted on 03/21/2006 12:43:03 PM PST by kingu (Liberalism: The art of sticking your fingers in your ears and going NANANANA..)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 44 | View Replies]

To: Tijeras_Slim; Muleteam1; 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.

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

50 posted on 03/21/2006 1:25:23 PM PST by CedarDave
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 37 | View Replies]

To: CedarDave; Muleteam1

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


51 posted on 03/21/2006 1:29:42 PM PST by Tijeras_Slim
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 50 | View Replies]

To: Baynative

Now that was funny!

:-)


52 posted on 03/21/2006 1:46:18 PM PST by Emmet Fitzhume ("Never do what your enemy expects you to do.")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 9 | View Replies]

To: Allegra

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.


53 posted on 03/21/2006 1:56:43 PM PST by Explorer24
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 39 | View Replies]

To: CedarDave
>>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?


54 posted on 03/21/2006 3:59:51 PM PST by Muleteam1 (The zipcode for Austin, Taxes is $137,500,000,000)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 50 | View Replies]

To: GeneD

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


55 posted on 03/22/2006 5:22:46 AM PST by WasDougsLamb (cry me a river, then build a bridge and get over it !)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Allegra

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


56 posted on 03/22/2006 5:38:18 AM PST by buck61 (luv6060)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 23 | View Replies]

To: buck61
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.

57 posted on 03/22/2006 5:56:48 AM PST by Allegra ("Trollspotting." A New Movie Starring a Bunch of Kitties)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 56 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-57 last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson