God doesnt hate New Orleans, the federal government does. First off was the just horrible response to katrina, but we all know about that. How the hell did news crews get to the superdome in 1 day and it took 5 for the army? The excuse that they wernt expecting it is BS, every major new network was talking about it 24-48 hours BEFORE it made landfall.
But even more than that, there is the old river diversion project to keep the Mississippi river in New Orleans. It should be flowing alittle to the west now in what use to be the Atchafalaya river channel. Instead, the army corp of Engenidiots and our oh so smart congress (I hold the real comptemt for the elected officals) decided that they should mess with the situtation. Now a majority of the Mississippi goes down a channel it shouldn’t be. Add in the poorly designed shipping channels that have been added into the area and the lack of levy maintaince and repair (due mostly to the high costs) plus the loss of the wetlands that traditionally protected this area and it should be no wonder that everything falls apart every few years.
New Orleans is a great city I am sure. The culture and the food and the girls gone wild activities all make for a huge attraction. But the very idea that we can “reform” nature and keep it incheck indefinatily (on a shoe string budget to boot) is just retarded.
Considering the negative aspects of that subculture, (crime, corruption, racism, institutionalized poverty) and we should be expecting this kinda stuff every few years. Eventually it will kinda be like twisters somewhere in the Midwest, it’ll be front page for a day and then forgotten tomorrow because everyone knows it is just happen again soon.
