New Orleans is a lost cause...

by Gregor 19 Replies latest social current

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  FreudianSlip

  I was thinking the same thing Gregor. I think it will soon be a ghost town.
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  zeroday

  NEW Orleans is a beautiful city I hate to see it happen to them again...as a truck driver I have been thru there a number of times in the last 3 years after katrina and it is a crying shame how devistated that city has become...
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  oompa

  Good God....levees were never the answer....dirt and stones in massive amounts were. If you want to change a swamp near the ocean to a place to live, ya better fill it...fill it....ya....fill it. All the billions spent down there are a total waste......what a shame.........oompa

  by the way....I love the french quarter...the music......the food.....and was there last year. the poor areas of the city are a grass and jungle infested mess.....like something out of a sci-fi movie.....nature has taken these parts back already
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  TopHat

  New Orleans is town of criminals and corruption. I lived there. I don't want to go back.
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  Robdar

  I just hope everybody evacuates. I hope they take their pets with them.
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  choosing life

  I got to see New orleans once. A lot of history there and I love the music. I think they are going to have to give up on living in much of this area if it is wiped out again. There are a lot of old plantation homes along the Mississippi River by the levees. I toured several. I wonder if they have/will be affected too?

  I think they will do things better this time as all eyes are upon them. Hope so!
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  FlyingHighNow

  I wonder if GW will be more interested, simply because it's an election year.

  I spent several years of my childhoon in SE Louisiana. New Orleans was a city of magic and it should never have been discounted so easily in the years before Katrina, when it was allowed to go unprepared for such a disaster. And how the current presidential administration could so cold heartedly stand by while people baked in the heat, without water, food and medical supplies and perished in the rising waters, defies imagination.

  New Orleans is one of the most unique and fascinating contributions to American culture there is. Maybe the most beloved. If you didn't get to visit NOLA before Katrina, count yourself deprived and unfortunate.
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  BurnTheShips

  New Orleans is one of the most unique and fascinating contributions to American culture there is. Maybe the most beloved. If you didn't get to visit NOLA before Katrina, count yourself deprived and unfortunate.

  I've never been to NOLA. Always wanted to go. However, all my friends that have been there have one word to describe it:

  Shithole.

  Apparently it is a pretty nasty place. That said, I hope they ride the storm out safe.

  BTS
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  FlyingHighNow

  New Orleans wasn't nasty in the 1960's and early 70's. Katrina didn"t help NOLA. For me, when the subject of Katrina is discussed, I can tell a lot about someone by his/her reaction.

  Something to keep in mind is that New Orleans is a port city and a conduit for illegal drugs to enter the country. This has had a huge impact on the city. Southern Louisianans tend to be laid back and easy going, less judgmental and harsh than some parts of the south. This probably helped the city to be caught unprepared for the drug craze that the late 60's ushered in. At first it seemed a harmless hippie way to have fun, but as America now knows, drugs have slowly wrecked a lot of the country from the big cities to the smallest of towns. New Orleans is not the only casualty to the drug culture.

  So many that have never been to cajun country are prejudiced against NOLA since Katrina. How sad, because it's one of friendliest, interesting cultures there is. It's truly magic and I am pretty sure those that have judged harshly would eat their words should they ever taste of the kind of hospitality that cajuns so easily give.
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  mustang

  The Netherlands (and to a lesser extent, Singapore) knows what they are doing with this technology. Somebody didn't do their homework.

  My friend in NOLA just got her house back. She used to hold the phone to the window for me to hear the Lake P. waves lapping at her back porch.

  I grew up on the East Coast hurricane alley. We never left: 20 feet of sealevel and 10 miles makes a difference. Even a friend that had a house within sight of the Sound (water) was OK: they had the same 20 feet. When we used to study with them in the 60's she mentioned that the house had stood for over 200 years.

  Mustang