Posted on 08/26/2006 10:31:59 AM PDT by mom4kittys
Hurricane Ernesto is coming!
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
Shep to the rescue!
Will the last person to leave, please turn out the lights?
People that build houses under sea level next to a "lake" on the coast are insane in the first place. Other than the French Quarter with is high ground nothing should be built there.
New Orleans is a toilet bowl city....thats the chocolate of the city Mayor Nagin....sinking, stinking city lying low and ready for another flush.... get out by hook, crook or yellow school bus. The French screwed up building it there in the first place. And it's upstanding citizens who fled are mucking up the city of Houston.
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Shep will need a carton of kleenix after he hears this.
Don't forget whoraldo too.
There goes chocolate town again , Mayor Naggin might say .
This is nothing new! The corpse (Corps) have been covering up for years!
Well said.
Flush out Sen. Mary LandScrew and Gov. Blank-O too.
Oh no, more billions for plasma TV's!
Good timing. Heineken guy was just about to run out of beer anyway.
I understand and agree with how you feel, but in reality the majority of the devastaion was caused by faulty levees that we were told over and over again were Category 3 proof.
Army Corps Engineers Warn New Orleans Levees May Not Hold in New Storm
The head of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers conceded Saturday that despite aggressive efforts to repair the levee system in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, it was unclear whether the it could hold up to a sizable hurricane this year.
Lt. General Carl Strock, the commander of the Corps, said the agency was carefully tracking Tropical Storm Ernesto, which was spinning in the Caribbean and projected to reach hurricane strength by Tuesday.
He was confident the Corps had done all it could to repair and reinforce 220 miles of levee walls, but he conceded he couldn't be sure whether the system would withstand Ernesto if reached Category 3 status and struck near New Orleans, as Katrina did Aug. 29, 2005.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,210605,00.html
"Like water for chocolate"?
Thanks!
The article says it's not a hurricane yet
What do you expect.White people build them that way out of spite to make black people miserable when the hurricanes come.
Hi,,From the curve Earnesto is taking the "Eye-Strike"
will be the Louisiana coast Cat 3 , Sept 3rd or so .
The mess Katrina left is still sitting rite where it was,,
I saw some pics a friend took,,,the mess goes on for miles.
Insurance CO.'s won't pay off etc. What I worry about is
the Port Fourchon oil port,,,20% of all the oil and 30%
of the natural gas comes through there!!!!!!
For the Whole Country !!! Get Ready $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$.
Southern Mississipi got wasted via Katrina yet they are rebuilding with a lot less moaning about it. New Orleans has been given so much aid and attention yet all this ungrateful yelping from there is disgusting. The nerve to cry 'racism'? Millions of generous Americans gave of their resources to help Katrina victims and this is the thanks they get? Next time y'all are on your own...complain away your lives or face reality.
The thousands who call this home thank you for your kind wishes. I hope you have as much fun when tornadoes wipe out communities in the midwest too.
Is there any reason it would "hold up" to another hurricane? They're just levees and flood walls, not dams. They'll help with flooding but they will not prevent it. Best bet is still to go to high ground...before the hurricane hits. Before being the operative word there.
I understand that. Since the Corps said it, it should have been reliable information. But now it's time to cut losses. We should not send good money after bad. New Orleans is illogically located. It's time to let go. It's a lot like the huge floods in the Midwest a few years back: Move to high, safe ground if you want to be insured agaginst loss. If you stay in the flood plain, expect to cover your own losses. Don't expect taxpayers to do it for you. ["you" = residents of NO]
Ya'll come on up to Shreveport,,,We Got Room !!!
Be outta there before Aug 31st to be safe !!!
Sorry! You are right.
Oh boy, another opportunity for 'reconstruction' bid-rigging, self-dealing, and graft is coming!
Negative elevation bump
This time park the buses on the high ground with the keys in them.
That's true for the City of New Orleans, but that was only a fraction of the total devestation caused by Katrina.
THere was St. Bernard Parish, Slidell,LA, and in Mississippi, Bay St. Louis, Waveland, Long Beach, Pass Christian, Gulfport, Biloxi, etc. That was pure hurricane and storm surge that did that. And the vast majority of those victims were hard-working, honest people who have literally lost everything.
I pray that the entire Gulf Coast is spared anymore hurricanes for a long time. It's not looking very good with a hurricane headed there now though.
Yes, hundreds of miles. It's breathtaking.
LOOTERDUDE LIVES!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh wait. Are those the buses the Cocao Puff Nagin forgot about? I wonder if they have been replaced or repaired so they will be ready to sit there if another storm hits?
No - they just found a richer gravy-train elsewhere. But they are rapidly wearing out their welcome in many of the towns they went to.
And no, I'm not trying to say that ALL of those forced from NO are like that, but an unfortunately large percentage are.
Ah- but you're wrong.
I am a New Orleans resident( Jefferson Parish, actually). My ancestors founded the place, but I've never loved it. I am stuck here because of finances and family decisions. When we evacuated for Katrina, if we had had nothing to come back to it would have been scary, and a hardship in many ways, but emotionally hurtful? no.
The point is there are people who DO feel love for the place. No matter how bad home is, some love it anyway. Some are in my position. You don't WISH bad on people. It might happen- it might be supposed to happen- but you don't glory in it. What crime did people commit to deserve death and destruction? Grow up and live in a place?
Does this line of thinking apply to all communities on the Gulf Coast, how about L.A. and Frisco, or is it New Orleans that is particularly hated?
I can't believe I'm here defending the place, when I've never liked it ! I agree with all points on it being a stupid place to have a city- but the buzzards circling when people are still living here( for many reasons other than stupidity) is just hideous.
I, personally, won't miss it if it is ever wiped out. All that matters is that my loved ones, and a few possessions I value, survive. But I know many would mourn,and I am empathetic enough not to wish more death and destruction on them. Gods will will be done, and I am asking Him to have mercy on the Gulf Coast.
Yes, it's disgusting. I hate that the whining trash have blackened the reputations of everyone who was devestated by Katrina, which probably outnumber the lowlife types who've taken such advantage of the situation.
I also resent that the news media have virtually ignored all but the ghetto residents of New Orleans when reporting on "Katrina victims."
Even in the immediate aftermath of the storm. I lived north of Lake Pontchartrain in Slidell, and remember my family gathered around the television set at my aunt's house in Tennessee where we had evacuated to trying to find out about what happened to our city. There was almost no mention on the news about Slidell.
Since my aunt did not have access to the internet, it took a few days before I could get my hands on a computer to get online and try to find out what happened back home, or if we even had homes to return to.
As it turned out, about half my city was destroyed by storm surge, and it took a couple more weeks of going to the library daily and haunting message boards online to get some info about our subdivisions, and even then we weren't really sure what we would find when we returned home.
Fortunately, the flood waters stopped about a mile from my house and literally in the front yard of my parents' house, so neither house got water, but there was quite a bit of tree damage. Everywhere. I've never seen anything like it and hope I never do again.
Thank You for your Prayers,,Oil Production in the Gulf
will start Shutting Down Monday to be safe. The direction Earnesto's Eye-Strike is coming from will hit Port Fourchon
Grand Isle from the south,south west.
As the post below yours indicates - the rest of the Gulf Coast is working hard to rebuild and clean-up with FAR less bellyaching than NO. Yes, those areas still have some major work ahead, but most of those evacuees have returned home and are WORKING.
Compare that to the NO area. A huge percentage have not returned, most expressing that they don't plan too (richer gravy train elsewhere). Lost of areas that have essentially gone un-touched and are still just as disgusting as when the water first went down (maybe not much different than the pre-hurricane condition?). The residents of NO are waiting for big-brother gubmint to come in and just "fix" everything, then hand them the keys to their new homes....
Quite frankly - after a year, those that really were interested in rebuilding NO should have made a LOT more progress than has been made. My sympathy quickly dried up.
As far as the oil port - that is a bit of a different story, and likely isn't as in danger as NO itself. But any serious damage to that facility could be a problem to consumers...
A large number of the NO residents living in Houston just had their electricity turned off, more scheduled for next month.
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