OT: God hates New Orleans

[urbanrealtor]

[quote=esmith]So, just three years after Katrina, another big hurricane is headed straight for New Orleans. NHC forecasts 34% chance that it will strengthen to Cat 5 before landfall.

I drove through it before the first round of destruction and it was a fairly filthy and blighted place to begin with. They should just raze it and relocate everyone to Nebraska.[/quote]

I don’t know. I think what you said was pretty spiteful and shitty.

You are, of course, entitled to your opinion.

New Orleans has a lot of culture and history and I really like it. I have never been during Mardi Gras but what I have seen of the city I find just enchanting. I visited there a few months after the storm and I honestly found it nicer in its sort of post-apocalyptic tranquility.

I assume your criticism was really about its crime, poverty and poor infrastructure. It seems kind of like the SF of the 70’s in that respect.

Lots of people have complained that putting a city in Hurricane alley is a bad idea. Kind of like putting a city on the San Andreas (SF). Or putting a city in a swamp with little farmland (DC). Or putting a city in a remote desert with little in the way of water supply (LV). Or putting a city on an island with potentially hostile native tribes(NY). Compared with other cities, putting a city and trading port at the mouth of our largest trade river does not seem like such a bad idea.

[renterclint]

Being “Captain Literal”, I have to point out the obvioius… Don’t cities just sort of materialize/evolve on their own? We don’t technically “put” a city anywhere, except maybe when we have to rebuild a city. It will be fun to dump a bunch more $$ into re-“put”ting New Orleans back in the center of Hurricane alley yet another time.

[renterclint]

Being “Captain Literal”, I have to point out the obvioius… Don’t cities just sort of materialize/evolve on their own? We don’t technically “put” a city anywhere, except maybe when we have to rebuild a city. It will be fun to dump a bunch more $$ into re-“put”ting New Orleans back in the center of Hurricane alley yet another time.

[renterclint]

Being “Captain Literal”, I have to point out the obvioius… Don’t cities just sort of materialize/evolve on their own? We don’t technically “put” a city anywhere, except maybe when we have to rebuild a city. It will be fun to dump a bunch more $$ into re-“put”ting New Orleans back in the center of Hurricane alley yet another time.

[renterclint]

Being “Captain Literal”, I have to point out the obvioius… Don’t cities just sort of materialize/evolve on their own? We don’t technically “put” a city anywhere, except maybe when we have to rebuild a city. It will be fun to dump a bunch more $$ into re-“put”ting New Orleans back in the center of Hurricane alley yet another time.

[renterclint]

Being “Captain Literal”, I have to point out the obvioius… Don’t cities just sort of materialize/evolve on their own? We don’t technically “put” a city anywhere, except maybe when we have to rebuild a city. It will be fun to dump a bunch more $$ into re-“put”ting New Orleans back in the center of Hurricane alley yet another time.

[urbanrealtor]

You have a point, however, if the safeguards worked as they were supposed to (levees, storm swell barriers) we would not be having this conversation. Also, most of the city was not destroyed.

Finally, we need a port city in one of our largest ports. Its a matter of economic imperatives.

It might make sense to A) evaluate which places are good candidates for safeguarding B)reinforce existing safeguards and C)develop better plans for evac and preservation of economic infrastructure.

Normally I would say that the gov’t is better than me on doing this but my faith in that has waned on this particular topic.

[urbanrealtor]

You have a point, however, if the safeguards worked as they were supposed to (levees, storm swell barriers) we would not be having this conversation. Also, most of the city was not destroyed.

Finally, we need a port city in one of our largest ports. Its a matter of economic imperatives.

It might make sense to A) evaluate which places are good candidates for safeguarding B)reinforce existing safeguards and C)develop better plans for evac and preservation of economic infrastructure.

Normally I would say that the gov’t is better than me on doing this but my faith in that has waned on this particular topic.

[urbanrealtor]

You have a point, however, if the safeguards worked as they were supposed to (levees, storm swell barriers) we would not be having this conversation. Also, most of the city was not destroyed.

Finally, we need a port city in one of our largest ports. Its a matter of economic imperatives.

It might make sense to A) evaluate which places are good candidates for safeguarding B)reinforce existing safeguards and C)develop better plans for evac and preservation of economic infrastructure.

Normally I would say that the gov’t is better than me on doing this but my faith in that has waned on this particular topic.

[urbanrealtor]

You have a point, however, if the safeguards worked as they were supposed to (levees, storm swell barriers) we would not be having this conversation. Also, most of the city was not destroyed.

Finally, we need a port city in one of our largest ports. Its a matter of economic imperatives.

It might make sense to A) evaluate which places are good candidates for safeguarding B)reinforce existing safeguards and C)develop better plans for evac and preservation of economic infrastructure.

Normally I would say that the gov’t is better than me on doing this but my faith in that has waned on this particular topic.

[urbanrealtor]

You have a point, however, if the safeguards worked as they were supposed to (levees, storm swell barriers) we would not be having this conversation. Also, most of the city was not destroyed.

Finally, we need a port city in one of our largest ports. Its a matter of economic imperatives.

It might make sense to A) evaluate which places are good candidates for safeguarding B)reinforce existing safeguards and C)develop better plans for evac and preservation of economic infrastructure.

Normally I would say that the gov’t is better than me on doing this but my faith in that has waned on this particular topic.

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Should we abandon Venice too? It floods all the time.

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Should we abandon Venice too? It floods all the time.

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Should we abandon Venice too? It floods all the time.

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Should we abandon Venice too? It floods all the time.

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