New Orleans

Merika · 09-01-2005, 01:31 PM

.......... no Mardi Gra here for a LONG time!

http://www.globalsecurity.org/milita...ns-imagery.htm

This is a cool site which shows before and after satellite images. Click to make the pic bigger and toggle your mouse. Amazing!

I still can't believe it happened.

twinkle · 09-01-2005, 02:56 PM

I am just sooooo sad that this ever happened. I'm crazy about jazz I would have loved to see the famous bars before the hurricane - Mood Indigo, Cotton Bar...

I know I'm being selfish and inconsiderate because so many lifes have been ruined and lost... For me New Orleans was the strange mix between USA and France.

But I can't bring myself to see those images. In Europe it's been pouring for months and my country is the most devastated of all

. Seeing images of a city under waters would just remin me of my country.

Merika · 09-01-2005, 03:59 PM

I didn't know that about Rumania Twinks. I'll go see if I can find a link to read up on it. Is your family doing ok?

Stone · 09-01-2005, 05:51 PM

Greg had a Bachlor party he was supposed to go to in New Orleans a few months ago but I boycotted it because I was pregnant and thought it was unapproiprate...

I do feel kindof bad now, since he always wanted to visit there as well now it's long gone :?

Duke · 09-01-2005, 07:55 PM

Don't feel bad about anything stone, gr0g got to do pretty much everything else by the sounds of things.

Merika · 09-02-2005, 07:51 AM

I've been to New Orleans several times. Never liked it. Unless you were inside of a really nice hotel...the whole place always felt like like a thried world country. All the crap happening there now isn't new. It was always a stinky, nasty, dangerous A$$ of a city. They should let it flood until it's under water, relocate all the good people in there and call it the Lost City of Smut.

Meanon · 09-02-2005, 07:16 PM

The press reports make grim reading. As if the disaster is not tragedy enough in itself, it seems to have been exacerbated by the lack of preparation for large scale emergencies and the total breakdown of law and order.

Some of the reports reminded me of the atrocities in Yugoslavia. The situation is totally different, it must be that such things happening in a wealthy, sophisticated city prove that the veneer of civilisation is worryingly thin. A few days, that's all it took for the worst aspects of humanity to surface in sufficient quanitity with sufficient force to exploit the vulnerable. When things like this happen, my immediate reaction is that they wouldn't do so here. If it can happen in New Orleans, then it could happen anywhere. That's why I find it so scary.

Merika · 09-04-2005, 05:20 PM

The area devastated by this particular hurricane is as big as the UK. New Orleans isn't the only bunch of people who were in trouble. They were just the only ones retarded enough to shoot at the Coast Guard helicopters trying to rescue them. Doesn't surprise me a bit....that city has always been the A$$ of the world.

I wish things would've went smoother too....but who is ever prepared for such a tremendous disaster? Our emergency agency and the state governments should've given the whole problem to the military in the first place.....but everyone wants to be important even when they are incapable of getting the job done. Only the President can over ride them. After he visited the area...he did and seems to be going fairly smooth.

However, few of the people who were in the Super Dome area are going to work. They will simply shift as a complete welfare situation to another state and only Texas offered to take on the burden. This means building state housing, clinics and everything else to get them back settled. That couldn't be determined overnight. Granted, they should've figured out a way to get them water and food....that was wrong. I'm not sure who was in charge of that....but they sucked doing their job.

Meanon · 09-04-2005, 06:30 PM

That's a vast area. I read reports today that the fall guy (head of emergency services) was sacked from his last job because he wasn't up to it. I think maybe some of the reports here have picked up on isolated eye witness testimonies, at least that's what the authorities are saying. Hope so.

Merika · 09-05-2005, 01:25 PM

This is the USA. Instead of figuring out how to correct it the next time....they will play politics and point fingers.

They will spend millions investigating the name blame, then spend more millions purchasing evacuation buses no one will probably use for another 10 years and then spend billions fortifying a levee which anyone in their right mind knows that building a city under sea level ON the sea in an area prone for hurricanes off of the gulf....is retarded in the first place.

Stone · 09-05-2005, 01:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Merika

This is the USA. Instead of figuring out how to correct it the next time....they will play politics and point fingers.

Cheers to that..... it's so accurate