God Spare New Orleans

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by busterb

Thanks for asking. I settled with insurance co. Still working on house, painting, replacing cornices and other wood. Been nice weather, but help is hard to find. Only .39" rain this month. My age and weight, ladder work sucks. Also, I'd rather be beat in face with a buzzard gut than paint. bb

So what is your plan for the next storm season?

[busterb]

Plan? I guess just to be around for the next one.

[Kitsune]

A Gulf Coaster's Plan:

1. Have plenty of water, food, and survival supplies on hand: A generator, tarps, camp stove, fuel, etc. Always keep your car's gas tank at least half full between June 1st and November 30th.

2. Use all the cool survival stuff for camping and outdoor fun.

3. When the hurricane comes, RUN LIKE HELL.

[glatt]

You forgot:
4. Get a very detailed atlas of all your state's back country dirt roads so you can still run like hell when the major roads are clogged with traffic.

[Kitsune]

An excellent addition. I got stuck in evacuation traffic a couple years ago on I-75 and decided to skip over to US441. Traffic on that road was hell, too.

...because it was packed with people trying to get off the highway and on to the interstate. After that, the road was empty.

Back road evacuation is the way to go.

[monster]

Originally Posted by Kitsune

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Back road evacuation is the way to go.

Colonoscopy due?



Buster, thanks for the update. We're travelling through your state in August -is that too late to stop and help? You'll have to watch the sprogs, though......

[busterb]

As someone said," Come on down." That stands for MOST dellars.
Welcome to the boars den. As Bruce stated, no horizontal surface will go uncluttered. Kick junk out of way and we'll put something in pot, on grill or in smoker. But August? Damn it's hot then. Not to worry, Ac.
bb

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by tw

How many feet below sea level are these houses? Neighborhoods that cannot relive and are below sea level should be rescued? This is time for a city to consolidate on safer land. Only then can parklands be cleared and created. Those pictures are symptoms when a town (at its highest levels) cannot make hard decisions.

New Orleans will be a smaller town. Many sections - especially the ninth ward - should never be rebuilt. The town should consolidate on safer and higher lands. Those pictures are imply indecision exists. It’s the indecision that is so demoralizing. Trash is only a symptom of a far greater disaster – indecision.

I'll bet Clodfobble's pictures are neither New Orleans nor below sea level. It's the 'burbs, who's most powerful and best organized sector of government was the volunteer fire department, or the ladies auxiliary.
They have no money, no expertise, no more tax base and it would probably take a month to raise a quorum for a meeting. They are screwed.

[Clodfobble]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

I'll bet Clodfobble's pictures are neither New Orleans nor below sea level.

Supposedly they're from the Ninth Ward, but a friend took them so I don't know for sure. Definitely from the city of New Orleans though.

[busterb]

Bruce your right. It's not down town. Maybe Plaqueimines or St. Bernard parish. I don't presume to speak for anyone from LA. But I lived and worked from the west bank of N.O. for many years. Mostly in Belle Chasse, plaquimines parish. one road in and out.

I think can state. Nothing will be done till the grease gets to where the squeak is. No matter who the Gov. is, until the money gets in the right hands, nothing will happen

[busterb]

That was late had a power outage and lost so had to retype. bb
too much open land for 9th ward IMHO

[xoxoxoBruce]

Power outage? Those chicken shit American contractors or the insurgents?

[zippyt]

This may be an unpopular opinion but I think this is a VERRRY good opertunity for the Gubment to step in and declair Emmenent Domain , get the corps of Enginers going , doze and BURN all that shit and build housing and schools and the such !
I meen Hell they have had a year + to do something , and there is STILL trash and the such , how long befor it turns into a health hazard for folks TRYING to rebuild ??

Just my 2 cents .

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by zippyt

This may be an unpopular opinion but I think this is a VERRRY good opertunity for the Gubment to step in and declair Emmenent Domain , get the corps of Enginers going , doze and BURN all that shit and build housing and schools and the such !
I meen Hell they have had a year + to do something , and there is STILL trash and the such , how long befor it turns into a health hazard for folks TRYING to rebuild ??

Just my 2 cents .

Or they could just turn it into a big dump. Wait, I think it already is. Very few areas have a bunch of people moving back in droves.

[Happy Monkey]

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