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Yeah, I hate how the French Quarter has become America's frat party. I'd forgotten about that. Blech.

ShnickyShnack wrote:

macnuke wrote:

ShnickyShnack wrote:

Don't say that!

Shnick.  it's gunna hit somewhere.
you know dam good and well that I have always stated Rita should have been the second flush on N.O. to make sure it all went down the pipe.

so if I had my druthers.

What kind of repairs have they carried out on the levees, do you know?

I find myself wondering what sort of hits they can take (and whether your hopes will be realized).

Actually I understand your feelings on this. Personally I want there to still be a New Orleans, but I think it should be way smaller. Stop pretending it's a "normal" city in a "normal" setting. Keep the French Quarter and downtown and bulldoze the rest.

I can remember Bush cutted fundings on coastal defence (about a year or so after Catrina).

So now a new hurricane (change of becoming a cat 3) is heading to New Orleans,  Gustav (hm that name sounds ironic, is it a russian or german name?). Probaly New Orleans is still- or even in a worse shape today, although I have little information.. Can remember they invited dutch dike experts but I guess the sollution was too expensive, so it's all about priorties, currently all the funding must go to this war and with stimulating; consumption?

They failed to give this city good defence, which they could and still can, but they just dont have funds for it currently.

IMO you could see that as a terrorist act, they failed to defend their citizens, only difference there is no country to attack but an ocean, the latter would be more easy to be succesfull then Iraq and much cheaper, although Iraq had nothing to do with it... hence

War industry makes politics go around...
Listen to the wise words from a previous president: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rd8wwMFm … re=related

Bush should have standed on the destroyed coastal defences in New Orleans flooded in water, with a good media machine behind him, telling him our freedom is at stake, but that he would defence the american people from simular disasters in the future

Last edited by Proost (2008-08-28 12:13 pm)

daemon wrote:

Gustav might indeed flush what our man wants (a reprehensible notion....for the record.)

I'd wager that MORE troops would patrol NO streets post-flood.

With more martial-law powers. Maybe some vets hired by Blackwater, too.

itsa city doomed regardless
with subsidence at current levels and protecting only the city....

N.O. should be a lower than sea level city surrounded by levees some 45 miles offshore in roughly 75-80 years.

sounds like a good investment in the future to me eh?

radarman wrote:

Metacell wrote:

macnuke wrote:

ahh yes. the French Quarter...

where else in the world can you hang out with a landfills worth of plastic beer cups littered about the streets so heavily you can hardly see the pavement beneath except where the not so occasional drunk is laying in the doorway in a pool of his own urine.
the heavenly scent of stale beer and urine permeating the hot and humid atmosphere laced with the smells of sweat of unwashed bodies and the underlying hint of cooking from the local restaurants.

and to think you used to be able to bring the family anywhere in the quarter with no worries and good times.


C'mon Gustav 

Dude, how could you leave out the transvestite strippers!?

Ah, such a great trap for drunk guys. I was a grad student the last time I went to NOLA, and one of the profs got a tad too tipsy and starting ogling the trannies. What was hilarious about the situation was that the most redneck guy in the group pointed it out. I'll never forget "Dr. O - those are guys!"

Beer goggles can get you into a lot of trouble.

just in time for Gustav