Category 5 Hurricane heading for New Orleans

[JET]

No way is this worse than the world trade center! These people had plenty of warning. If they were dumb enough not to get out, that is their own fault. At the very least they should have went to the stadium and been pretty safe. The only ones I can see is the elderly, sick or emergency workers. They don't have much of a choice. How many people do you think would have been in the WTC if they knew what was going to happen?

[Matt D.]

80% of New Orleans is underwater. It is estimated that over 1,000,000 people evacuated the area around New Orleans alone. Their saving grace is they had PLENTY of warning that it was going to happen. How this is worse than the WTC disaster is beyond me.

[Onefast99gsx]

I'm not referring to people deaths, i'm referring to property damage. WTC was what over 3500 killed, Katrina at around 68 so far. I don't know what the going price on a couple of new trade centers but can it be over 40 billion if you include flood damages? That's NOT even to mention the economic impact! I can remember after 9-11 and living in Mpls, the cost of fuel dropped to .96 cents/ gallon. Look up in the upper left corner of this thread at the gas price, went from 2.79 to 2.96 in 2 days. You think it will stop there? Hell No. The impact of this doesn't just impact LA, Miss, it affects the entire U.S. That to me is also damage.

[1ViciousGSX]

I don't think we've seen the worst yet for New Orleans yet, those levees are getting weaker by the minute. The pump stations are still down, so the water will keep rising.

[Onefast99gsx]

I totally agree with you on that. Generally the water would recede within hours after the storm but the levels are actually rising and high if you check out some of the recent pics on CNN. If homes and businesses sustained a great deal of water for a long period of time, i would almost have to say that the whole structural integrity is gone and have to be demolished if it isn't already. It may not be raining and windy there but the damage is getting worse.

[Matt D.]

Agreed. They just started more evacuations in areas of New Orleans because the water is rising in areas where the flooding was not bad to begin with.

[niterydr]

I just got done reading all of cnn on this, and I'd have to agree. The way the water is rising, it looks like most of New Orleans will be under water, and have to be demolished. :(.

[JET]

It was just a matter of time before the place sunk into the ocean anyway. I say rebuild it somewhere else!

[Onefast99gsx]

Ironic that you said that, The governor is commited to "rebuild at any cost" is just how he stated it. Isn't that stupid?!? Same shit with the Florida hurricane victims and insurance/ FEMA. I can see getting your house replaced/fixed ONCE and only ONCE but rebuilding in the same place that a hurricane is likely to come by is just plain idiotic! Us taxpayers shouldn't have to pay for that shit over and over again. Rebuild some other fucking place.

[curt_gendron]

On Monday when the hurricane was going through, I was doing a little research. I had found this page:
http://www.publichealth.hurricane.lsu.edu/convert%20to%20tables/New%20Orleans%20Study%20Areatf.htm

It has a lot of good information on how the levees work. I remember thinking of how far below sea level a lot of New Orleans is. And how if one of those levees broke, they would be hurting.

On Monday night, I thought they were going to be o.k., then sometime overnight is when the levees broke. That water is going to be there for weeks. It has no place to go.

Another thing that no one is talking about is all the heavy rain they are getting in the Ohio river valley. The Ohio river dumps into the Mississippi and we all know where all of that water goes. So in a couple of weeks when all that rain water gets down to New Orleans, the river level will rise a little bit. Probably won't be a huge deal, but weird none the less.

later,
Curt