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| Posted By: Um Posted On: Apr 9, 2007 Views: 1185 | Rebuilding New Orleans I admit, I'm pretty selfish for doing this but I voted for New Orleans because I live there and am currently going through the aftermath of it. The government is doing an utterly terrible job, and people have decided they don't want to help us anymore, now that Saving New Orleans is so 2006 to all of America...I feel there are no longer any reports on the Tsunami, and they still need help and it has been years. It scares me, because this is even worse of a situation, and the people have already forgotten. We will be just like the places that were hit by Tsunamis by the time it's been 3 or 4 years. I dunno, this is a longwinded post, but I felt it needed to be said. |
| Posted By: Green Posted On: Apr 9, 2007 Views: 1182 | RE: Rebuilding New Orleans Hey UM, AKA Crybaby. If my house blowsup or is torn up or flooded or washed away or attached by a hooligan and it isnt covered under my insurance i have to deal with it myself and the government doesnt help me so why the hell should they help you? Just because it happened to a bunch of you at once? Apparently you're surviving. I am assuming you're not using the internet from the library and living in an innertube that is still floating where your house used to be. If you didnt have fllod insurance that's not americas problem..I don;t want my taxes dollars to pay for your mistake. Clearly the president did a nice acting job pretending he was concerned about your area and threw his loose change to you folks to look like it was going to be rebuilt but it was merely the equivalent of me giving a few cents to a beggar in the street...I don't really care about the beggar but I just want to shut him up and look nice. Have a nice day! |
| Posted By: Green Posted On: Apr 9, 2007 Views: 1181 | RE: Rebuilding New Orleans Sorry for my typoes...kinda of rushed through that. attached should have been attacked....sure there are more.....but I just don;t feel like checking...I look at the keyboard while I type. I am more fo a jerk than a computer geek. |
| Posted By: Um Posted On: Apr 9, 2007 Views: 1179 | RE: Rebuilding New Orleans Wow...I mean..I'm speechless. You really don't want the city to come back and all that stuff? |
| Posted By: Um Posted On: Apr 9, 2007 Views: 1178 | RE: Rebuilding New Orleans and we're not talking about my house - or one thousand peoples' houses. I had all the insurance needed, just like many others, but they quickly abandoned and did not come through for so very many. I'm talking about Casinos, a stronghold for the economy, schools, etc. |
| Posted By: impersonator Posted On: Apr 9, 2007 Views: 1176 | RE: Rebuilding New Orleans I think that they should just clear everyone out of that state COMPLETELY. Then they should go through and thuroughly clean it up, and I mean THUROUGHLY. It'd be like if you wrecked a really nice car, you need transportation immediately so you do a quicky job in repairing it but it sucks. Whereas if you took that car and rebuilt the entire thing from the ground up you could make it even better then when it first came out of the factory. peace and love |
| Posted By: Um Posted On: Apr 9, 2007 Views: 1174 | RE: Rebuilding New Orleans that was an interesting idea, purposed by many people. It could have worked but a few places were still not to hell. The problem is, it has been two years. The money spent to repair and the time spent to repair would be null and void if we were to do that now. |
| Posted By: Um Posted On: Apr 9, 2007 Views: 1173 | RE: Rebuilding New Orleans also, hundreds and hundreds of years of culture that was still salvagable would be lost. The French Quarter is a thing of esquisite beauty, and it was not harmed. The idea of destroying the French Quarter when it was saved via a blessing from (god of your choice, or just destiny I don't care) is a very bad one. |
| Posted By: Green Posted On: Apr 9, 2007 Views: 1168 | RE: Rebuilding New Orleans I was trying to be mean and overly dramatic for a laugh...for that I apolgize. You had insurance and they just didnt pay? So what's your deal///where are you living? What was paid for? What was fixed in the city? You got those vouchers that were handed out right? What is going on with your property now? Did the debt just go to your mortgage company? Do you still have a mortgage? Did you even really own a house? What position would you like to take advantage of Carmen Electra in? |
| Posted By: Um Posted On: Apr 9, 2007 Views: 1158 | RE: Rebuilding New Orleans understandable Green. Anyhoo to answer your quesions, I am currently not living in my old house; it's still being worked on w/ limited funds. I'm living in a small place, it's isn't exactly cozy or anything but it's a new home. It used to be a methhouse so it is super-cheap. I get a lot of cops at night asking for a few names here in there. The main one is Debby. Where are you, mysterious Debby!?! The big thing is the superdome that was rebuilt some 6 months ago. Was cool to wave at the workers on the roof, cause I travel thru there on my way to work. I do own a house, and I got some things paid for, but many things were neglected that I asked for in spite of sufficient insurance. One good news is the trailers they send in helped some people out, including me. As far as Carmon Elektra, I think I would go doggy-style. I'd have her panting. |
| Posted By: Peanut Butter on Rye Posted On: Apr 9, 2007 Views: 1156 | RE: Rebuilding New Orleans A few of my random thoughts: 1 - The flooding was good for finally washing all the urine off of Bourbon Street. 2 - Most of New Orleans should not be rebuilt. There is a 100% chance that it will re-flood in the next 20 years. The land should be returned to the wetland buffer that used to be there. The French Quarter wasn't destroyed because it is on higher ground. As a rule of thumb it is not a good idea to build a house lower than the sea level around it. 3 - If it is rebuilt, it should be on the understanding that when the next flood hits, not one single cent of federal aid will be available for repairs. If you build a house( or city) known to have a 100% chance of a disaster destroying it that is no longer an accident. That is planned and the city should instate a large tax on all property be fund it's own repair. This same rule should be applied to anyone living on the outer banks or on the side of a mountain pron to mudslides. 4 - Insurance companies are scum and State Farm tops that list. Like a good neighbor my ass. A good neighbor that get out of paying people for their damaged houses by claiming the flood was an act of nature instead of a broken levy. A goof neighbor that got a gigantic fine for hiring people that were not doctors to rule on medical claims in order to cheat people of their due payments. Scumballs. If they were stupid enough to write policies for people down there, they have to pay every cent. 5 - FEMA makes communist-era soviet distribution look like FedEx by comparison. St. Bernard parish still hasn't received their aid. 6 - I estimate a couple more years and we will be flooded with a bunch of Katrina movies. I bet at least one will involve Helen Hunt as a single mom. Another will have Denzel Washington as the mayor. Nicholas Cage will probably do one based on an oil rig and it will involve an international spy ring, killer sharks, and a B list actress that will spend 80 minutes of the movie in a wet white shirt with no bra. |
| Posted By: Um Posted On: Apr 9, 2007 Views: 1154 | RE: Rebuilding New Orleans I agree with a few of your points peanutbutter on rye. I was so scared that katrina movies would start bursting out and katrina books would start. I have seen quite a few at borders/barns and nobles, and I dearly hope that if they make any of them the likes of Nicholas Cage will not be associated with it. Your points should be taken seriously into consideration, but I have a question for you. Why, after all of these years, has New Orleans not been rebuilt after each hard-hitting hurricane? |
| Posted By: Um Posted On: Apr 9, 2007 Views: 1153 | RE: Rebuilding New Orleans cause I mean, it has. |
| Posted By: Peanut Butter on Rye Posted On: Apr 9, 2007 Views: 1149 | RE: RE: Rebuilding New Orleans It has been too soon for the movies. Give it a few years. The 9-11 movies just came out last summer. Now that I think of it, wasn't Nicholas Cage in one of them? New Orleans has always been rebuilt because it never faced anything like what Katrina brought so it was never a question of IF they should. Now they know the city is sinking up to 1" a year and for a city already 8' under sea level, that isn't good. The current Levee system isn't capable of stopping a Cat 3 or larger hurricane and it isn't designed to compensate for a sinking base. Add to that the increased gulf temperatures that will fuel stronger hurricanes. It will cost several billion and an estimated 20 years to rebuild the levees to an adequate level. Given all that you have to wonder if it is economically viable to maintain the city. How many of the current residents can afford the $833 per person per billion cost to rebuild the levee system? |
| Posted By: that one idiot guy Posted On: Apr 10, 2007 Views: 1141 | RE: Rebuilding New Orleans All of you are know it all sons of bitches. |
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