Louisiana Faces an Exodus From the Coast

AP ^ | 3-18-06 | CAIN BURDEAU

[Smarti Pants]

Have to disagree about the blizzards - I was left homeless by a blizzard some years ago, get this on April 1!!

Took the roof right off my building, flooded a 3-story apt. bulding & did major damage to the area as if a tornado hit.

Stuff happens! I don't live there anymore tho.......

[Mr Ramsbotham]

Where precisely in the USA will we live that is weather convenient AND crime free?

Delaware will only hold so many people.

[FReepaholic]

...IIRC: Eastern New Mexico is the safest place to escape floods, tornadoes, earthquakes, volcanoes hurricanes and blizzards...

What about scorpions?

[ncountylee]

Yeah, but where do you go to escape... this man ?

The ballpark.

[Strategerist]

Well, depends on where exactly you're talking about in New Mexico; there's significant earthquake hazard in the Albuquerque area...and there's been fairly recent volcanic activity (from a geologist's perspective) in many areas of New Mexico. Also, the Valles Caldera in New Mexico is a junior-grade Yellowstone.

[CindyDawg]

Fires?

[freedumb2003]

Took the roof right off my building, flooded a 3-story apt. bulding & did major damage to the area as if a tornado hit.

I hope you put in for your FEMA subsidy. 'Cause you know they were supposed to know about it, do something right away, and pay for your lifestyle (whatever that may be) indefinitely.

Just like our little Northridge shaker a few years back...

[Young Scholar]

The Northeast--there's a slight blizzard danger (though it comes with the added bonus of having four seasons), and places like New Hampshire and even New York City are quite safe.

[Wonder Warthog]

"They also had the perfect host for it, Emeril."

Emeril is photogenic and glib---but he is a Portugese from Massachusetts---not Louisianian.

[HostileTerritory]

Do you live in New England? I remember when we got 3 feet of snow on April 1.

[capt. norm]

Emeril is photogenic and glib---but he is a Portugese from Massachusetts---not Louisianian.

You must not live here in the south.

A lot of us are not originally from here, but that is not a requirement. You are allowed to join your neighborhood and become a southerner no matter where you're from.

I thought he handled it well visiting Chef Paul, and others on a chef-to-chef level that had nothing to do with geography or national origin.

I'm wondering why you felt the need to point all that out. What did he ever do to earn your negative views?

[Smarti Pants]

No, not now. I live in Texas now - to get away from the snow! But it was in New England!

[Wonder Warthog]

"You must not live here in the south."

Born and raised in South Louisiana--spent fifty years (of fifty-nine) living there, but not there now. I know what REAL South Louisiana cooking is all about.

"I'm wondering why you felt the need to point all that out. What did he ever do to earn your negative views?"

Because he made his "rep" on Louisiana cuisine, and basically passes himself off as a native (because "Emeril" sounds French). I had the same gripe with Justin Wilson, who passed himself off as Cajun, with not a drop of Cajun blood. It smacks of fakery.

[PAR35]

Eastern New Mexico is the safest place

New Mexico has already had 2 FEMA declarations THIS year. (Both for fires) http://www.fema.gov/news/disasters.fema

Looking at 2004, there is one for flooding and a couple for fire. The only one I saw for 2005 was for Katrina. Here's the 2004 list: http://www.fema.gov/news/disasters.fema?year=2004

[Mike Darancette]

And it is also the dullest, dreariest, stretch of nowhere on the planet.

My Grandmother lived on a farm there in the early 1900's and with hunting she always said it was a blast.

[Atchafalaya]

oof!, damn.

[Flux Capacitor]

----More differences than that. People outside of NO actually helped themselves.----

Yes, and most of them have been too busy doing so to play "your hurricane got more attention than my hurricane." That's been mostly left to people out of state who were nowhere near the path of either one of them.

-Dan

[painter]

"Where are you going to have everybody? In Missouri?"

Over 90 tornadoes hit here in Missouri last weekend.

[exhaustedmomma]

this swampy land defined by Cajuns

Those are the people who will stay, just like they have for over a hundred years. They are probably glad to see the others go. Those folks living up on the bayous know the land and how to live and survive on it.
Louisiana's coastline has been eroding for decades.

[LPM1888]

Eastern New Mexico is the safest place to escape floods, tornadoes, earthquakes, volcanoes hurricanes and blizzards.

I've seen floods, tornadoes, wildfires, droughts, and blizzards in Eastern New Mexico.