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PantherPaul
09-01-05, 01:27 AM
If you were mayor or Govenor in Louisiana would you try to rebuild or say it could happen again. Use the money and rebuild away from gulf
Bunky
09-01-05, 01:28 AM
i'm locking down with beer, a 180 miles til the next fill up and a weekend pool situation. i'll sell a sammie to every tbr'r the next 2 days for 3 bucks. tell me your name, and you're full...at least until dinner. lotsa parking available if the time is right.
articulatekitten
09-01-05, 01:31 AM
If you were mayor or Govenor in Louisiana would you try to rebuild or say it could happen again. Use the money and rebuild away from gulf

I think it would be stupid to rebuild there given the nature of the place. I'd think any funds for helping the survivors would be much better spend helping them to relocate to places that aren't below fucking sea-level & surrounded by water.

I can understand how the city grew up around this major port. But things have changed a lot since then.

Call it a total loss, & move on to someplace else. JMO.
Trace
09-01-05, 01:34 AM
I think that the ground has been so contaminated that no modern day contractor could even build in the lots where those houses stand right now. All the existing structures will have to be torn down. (Residential).

NO, sorry to say, has just exported their poverty problems.
magnus
09-01-05, 01:42 AM
If possible, rebuild. Slowly, surely. The biggest problem is where the hell else do you build? I don't want them to take up a million more acres of swampland and then see that flood when the river acts up.
QC REPRESENT
09-01-05, 01:46 AM
NO is NO more..never to be the way it was. the whole culture is built around those 200yr old homes, old South, etc. sucks because the city has such a niche in America.

where will all of those college girls showin tit go this year?
builder
09-01-05, 02:14 AM
i'm locking down with beer, a 180 miles til the next fill up and a weekend pool situation. i'll sell a sammie to every tbr'r the next 2 days for 3 bucks. tell me your name, and you're full...at least until dinner. lotsa parking available if the time is right.
WOOT! I'll be there.
McFly41
09-01-05, 04:20 AM
New Orleans destroyed itself in a way. By building over wetlands there was no place for excess water to go. Not that they could have seen it coming when the city was first conceived, but as time passed they could have adjusted accordingly.

I don't see them rebuilding the city as it was, but I do see them being more aware as to where they rebuild/relocate.

Moving a city of that size would be a HUGE undertaking. There was a small town here in Iowa that was relocated after a levee break a few years ago and it took in the neighborhood of 16 million to move roughly 600 people.
Village Idiot
09-01-05, 07:45 AM
move on
chipshot
09-01-05, 08:35 AM
New Orleans isn't going anywhere
dollface
09-03-05, 04:45 AM
New Orleans isn't going anywhere


I hope not.. I want them to re-build and do it better this time..
Braves
09-03-05, 05:06 AM
I don't see how. No insurance company in the world will insure any structure built there...unless they do something creative with the levees to give the IC's confidence.

But more than anything , NO lost their culture, never to return
Nytdreamer
09-03-05, 05:19 AM
I don't know how it could be rebuilt and carry the draw it once had, it sucks.
Superfluous_Nut
09-03-05, 04:52 PM
i'm sure they'll want to stay put and rebuild. i mean, clearly the mayor has a really big incentive to keep new orleans in tact -- that his whole purpose. the governor probably wouldn't want to have to sell new new orleans as a tourist destination -- who would want to come there and see the disney-fied historical recreation?

for the people involved, it's probably better just to move on. but for the economy of the state, it's better to rebuild. it's all about branding, really. the new orleans brand is probably more imporant than the new orleans citizenry.
bkfountain
09-03-05, 05:28 PM
um, where would they move to? It's not like prime real estate is just sitting around waiting for a whole city to relocate to.
reb
09-03-05, 05:29 PM
It's a tough question. To rebuild is just asking for it again. I think they should rebuild on the North side of Lake Ponchatrane at the least. Let homes and businesses that survived stay and the people that lost their home and businesses have to move somewhere else.

Either that or they are going to have to figure out a way to replace the silt that makes the barrier land. The big problem is that the oil rigs are sucking the oil and water from under the city. It justs keeps sinking.
Braves
09-03-05, 05:32 PM
um, where would they move to? It's not like prime real estate is just sitting around waiting for a whole city to relocate to.

Charleston...just move the French Quarters there and .....voila!!!!!! Instant Mardi Gras
dollface
09-04-05, 02:47 AM
They could move massive amounts of Earth/ dirt in and get it above sealevel and make sure this time the levees are stronger. It can be done.
bkfountain
09-04-05, 04:25 AM
They could move massive amounts of Earth/ dirt in and get it above sealevel and make sure this time the levees are stronger. It can be done.

or we coud build a colony on the moon. It would probably be cheaper and faster. It also doesn't flood there.
solarte1969
09-04-05, 04:30 AM
or we coud build a colony on the moon. It would probably be cheaper and faster. It also doesn't flood there.
BK-OWNED
Trace
09-04-05, 04:40 AM
BK-OWNED
One small step for BK. ONE giant leap for Dolly.
dollface
09-04-05, 05:15 AM
or we coud build a colony on the moon. It would probably be cheaper and faster. It also doesn't flood there.


No shit.. We can send people to the moon but it took us days to get these people help and we cannot re-build N.O.? Bullshit!
dollface
09-04-05, 05:17 AM
BK-OWNED


I was not owned.. If we can send a man to the moon??????? We can fucking do this. What the poster said may have been an insult??????? But I was not owned simply because I have a fucking more valid point. You and Trace fuck much??????????????????
hasbeen99
09-06-05, 04:18 PM
I think that the ground has been so contaminated that no modern day contractor could even build in the lots where those houses stand right now. All the existing structures will have to be torn down. (Residential).

This is what I'm thinking, too, Trace. It's so bloody contaminated, the land itself may not even be capable of supporting a city anymore.
Patti
09-06-05, 04:20 PM
I have been hearing about how the water is contaminated and all and I understand why with the sewage and dead bodies and all, but is it more contaminated than others places that have flooded and if it is why?
hasbeen99
09-06-05, 04:28 PM
um, where would they move to? It's not like prime real estate is just sitting around waiting for a whole city to relocate to.
From what I've read, a good percentage of the city has moved to Baton Rouge already.
vpkozel
09-06-05, 04:49 PM
I have been hearing about how the water is contaminated and all and I understand why with the sewage and dead bodies and all, but is it more contaminated than others places that have flooded and if it is why?

Oil, gas, diesel fuel, building materials, bodies, food. I'm sure that there are lots of things I am missing.