A good Cat 4 would wipe my house from the slate. We are only 5 miles from open water ocean and 150m from a very large tidal river with tide variance of greater than 8 feet each day. If my house got wiped out there isn't an insurance company that would insure me to rebuild. I would just have to move. Of course my house is not below sea level either. Many of the people in NO did just that. Left and didn't come back. This could easily be another Katrina:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/n...w-orleans.html

How much more of our resources should we or the state of LA continue to pour into a place below sea level?

Oprah bought this poor woman with mucho children a brand new house and a brand new van right before Katrina. Katrina ruined the woman's home. NOW Oprah is rebuilding her home, setting her family up in the choicest hotel in Naw'Lins...I wonder if Oprah is gonna be up for round three?

If theCitizens of NO were allowed to name them, would this be their list?

Asshole
Bush
Cunt
Death
Elevation
Fuck
George
Help
.......

Perhaps getting to name the next year's storms would be a cathartic exercise for the victims of a serious hurricane. "Well my house is fucked and my MIL is dissing me to the wife, but you know what, the next MF is gonna be named after my MIL.....

I hope that never happens to you or anyone else . Personally I would rather spend our resources here for our own disasters than for the global crises that are occurring. But who gets to choose how and where money is spent? For example how big is Iraq and if they have oil money why do they need our financing? Aw never mind that is a whole 'nother thread! :headshake

ZERO - not one froggin dime - help them move away - maybe.

NO is a pretty important port though.... who's gonna run it if no one lives there?

My parents are packing it up again! Looks like there's a third one trying to develop too...


http://www.intellicast.com/Storm/Hur...Satellite.aspx

Looks like its time to stock up, board up, pack up and/or hit the road.
Best of luck to anyone in the way of Gustav and his little buddy. I guess the response will be better this time.

Even George Jr can learn that you don't go to California for a campaign fund raiser and then to McCain's house for a birthday party when the head of the National Hurricane Center calls everyone. Why call everyone? Because the hurricane obviously would be that destructive. Now a lesser hurricane appears. So George Jr will not go to a Convention. He finally learned that the president cannot wait for Cheney (on a hunting trip) to make decisions for him.

Yes, wacko extremists need falling buildings, unwinnable wars, and flooded cities before they will listen to intelligent moderates.

Got anything new to say there T-dub? Or have you taken all this time off just to come back with wacko extremists and unwinnable wars? Come man - you need to get some new material. You've been kickin this dead horse too long.

Just move the port back to lands end.

I just spoke to an old friend, from Gretna,La the west bank. They'er a few miles NW of me. 50 or so. Took them 11 hours to make the trip. Way under 3hrs. most time.

Are you staying where you are, buster? Be safe.

Can we have a roll-call of dwellars who live in the Hurricane-prone areas, so they can log in and tell us how thigns are for them?
A quick scan of my memory produces the following list of people in the general "South" area:

Mercenary?
BusterB?
ZippyT?
Chocolatl?
(And Choco's significant other ... damn memory gap there, sorry).
Any more?

Please let us know your status, when you can.

Not zippy, he's in the earthquake danger zone though - New Madrid fault.