U.S. Army Corps of Engineers: Funding Shortfall Jeopardizes New Orleans Flood Control
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U.S. Army Corps of Engineers: Funding Shortfall Jeopardizes New Orleans Flood Control
From the attached U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Fact Sheet, March 2005:
In authorizing the project, Congress expressed intent to have the critical flood control work accomplished as quickly as possible. The current budget funding for FY 2006 will prevent the award of contracts. This will significantly increase the cost of the project, delay project completion and delay project benefits.
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September 1st, 2005 at 6:05 pmHOMELAND SECURITY IS A SHAM
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I just reviewed all the major network's sites. Still no accountability moment. The neo-media has yet to start asking the hard questions. Thanks for the work on your part Judd.
September 1st, 2005 at 6:05 pmRepentlicans now for the end is nigh!
September 1st, 2005 at 6:08 pmTens of thousands rummaging through garbage looking for food in Mississippi….
September 1st, 2005 at 6:10 pmBlitzer asked FEMA if levees' problems were forseeable. He avoided answering.
In 2002 Bush had the Corps of Engineers buy who asked for more money for the New Orleans flood projects fired.
In 2005 there was no work done for the first time in 37 years on the NO flood potential problem.
The heads of all governmental agencies are political hacks and yes men to Bush, otherwise you dont get the job. The FEMA director is a political hack and golfing buddy of The Shrub.
Enough said.
September 1st, 2005 at 6:14 pmThis is just more evidence to be used against the Bushmen when they have to defend their war crimes and crimes against humanity. Maybe they could have a wing on the George W. Bush presidential library (if that ain't an oxymoron I don't know what is) for "things he really f*%&$ up". Make that two wings and an annex!
September 1st, 2005 at 6:16 pm[...] U.S. Army Corps of Engineers: Funding Shortfall Jeopardizes New Orleans Flood Control [...]
September 1st, 2005 at 6:17 pmFive will get you ten that Cheney's Halliburton (he owns 435,000 shares of options held in trust) will get a non-bid Federal contract to rebuild something damaged in the Gulf states by Hurricane Katrina.
September 1st, 2005 at 6:26 pmThe follow up investigations should prove interesting. No doubt the military keeps very accurate records of directives from the WH so it will be easy to validate the advance actions taken by boy george. Guess the Dept. of HomeLand Security needs to be combined with the Dept. of Common Sense to make it functional.
September 1st, 2005 at 6:28 pmFEMA director Michael Brown on Wolf Blitzer "...to help those who are stranded, who chose not to evacuate, who chose not to leave the city..." Hmm, chose not to leave the city.
Of course there is this from CNN; “The evacuation of patients from Charity Hospital was halted Thursday after the facility came under sniper fire twice.†And this from a woman tourist; “There are about 300 people left… I know, and it would be a different situation if we had made the choice of our own volition to stay here. We could not get out. Once the storm started to hit the airlines shut down immediately. And none of us could get flights out. We would have left if we could have, but we could not and that's why we're in the situation that we're in.â€
These pigs are in charge of every branch of OUR GOVERNMENT, and we the people get the blame for their repeated f**kups. Remember this, let in burn in, to these pigs Americans are cattle who chose not to leave the areas hit by the worst natural disaster in modern history.
September 1st, 2005 at 7:06 pmIncluding Katrina, there have only been two Cat 5 and four Cat 4 hurricanes to hit within 100 miles of New Orleans since 1899. This was at least a 100-year event. This project by the USCOE was for a 10-year flood frequency event. It won't do a damn bit of help for an event of this magnitude. Try to blame Bush, but you only have yourselves to blame for being uniformed. Once again thinkparanoid.org misleads you. When will you ever learn...
September 1st, 2005 at 7:19 pmIf nothing else, cities like Amsterdam and Venice will look very closely at what went wrong.
There was no reason for the levees to break. Period.
September 1st, 2005 at 7:20 pmIt's unlikely that Venice and Amsterdam will ever experience a Cat 5 hurricane. What an idiot.
September 1st, 2005 at 7:27 pmRico, hey fishboy, we can smell your rot, go play feel up with your buds on a right wing post.
September 1st, 2005 at 7:32 pmTell me Amsterdam and Venice won't be looking at this event. They already are. The statement that requested levee improvements wouldn't have helped is wrong. The parameters for a particular project is irrelevant, especially in light of years of funding cuts. Cities are built to last. 100 year events do happen, and everyone knows it. But you can always call names.
Russia has similar problems with their infrastructure. Nobody notices if you spend money on shoring up infrastructure, nobody notices if you don't. That makes it easy to cut funding. Until something happens.
But if name-calling helps you deal with the situation, that's what free speech is for.
September 1st, 2005 at 7:34 pmUh...the problem with the levees, friend apologist, was so well known I just read a 2002 National Geographic article about it.
Someone should be asking - what the hell were they thinking? Its insane. Its quite clear there was a longstanding problem with the cities preparation for this disaster - which is so foreseaable there are songs written about it - and the failure of the federal gov't to provide the funding for said work shows complete and total incompetence.
They were worried about money. They may have saved some, in the short run. Now this is what we get for spending too much on foreign wars and too little in our own backyard.
Peace.
September 1st, 2005 at 7:35 pmFor the name-caller who thinks levees can't protect against cat 5:
New Orleans would be the "only city in the country or even the world" with Category 5 hurricane protections, Corps' senior project manager Al Naomi told me last November. But these ideas are in little more than a brainstorming stage at this point; whether the bureaucratic Corps can lurch into action quickly enough to protect a city faced with ever increasing vulnerabilities remains a serious question. "Twenty years will be too late for New Orleans," says LSU's Van Heerden, who favors a specially funded congressional project more akin to the Tennessee Valley Authority.
September 1st, 2005 at 7:38 pmEx-hippie, you've never called anyone names, right? Friggin' hypcrite. You are completely wrong about levee design and flood frequencies. You're an idiot for pretending you do.
September 1st, 2005 at 7:42 pmGive some "facts" Rico to prove your accusations. Seems to me that Judd is citing what the Army Corp of Engineers said, so how is he misleading us?
I'm waiting for your citations Rico.
September 1st, 2005 at 7:45 pmIs there a lawyer out there who can explain the difference between murder and manslaughter?
I have a pretty good idea that the unjustified war in Iraq is murder (see Nuremberg) but the New Orleans situation might be just criminal negligence rising to manslaughter.
Or sort of like someone who endangers people's lives by getting behind the wheel of a car while drunk.
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/bushdui1.html
Or maybe if someone who drove through an intersection and accidently killed someone.
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3910b26e685a.htm
September 1st, 2005 at 7:46 pmEveryone knows you save lives and build levees with the money you got, not the money you want-
September 1st, 2005 at 7:48 pmThat's really what we need right now. A "tough it up" speech by a war criminal.
September 1st, 2005 at 7:50 pmMaybe we can find some of the 100 million dollars that has been lost and is unaccounted for in Iraq, give it to the bankers, who can then loan it back to us.
September 1st, 2005 at 7:53 pm#23
There is $9 billion dollars missing. That is a little bit more, like 90 times. These people have mismanaged everything they have touched.
Rico, nothing you say will calm the anger that just about everyone in the United States right now. If I was you, I wouldn't go spewing that crap in public. You just might get beat down like the little bitch you are.
September 1st, 2005 at 7:59 pmSome people actually worked on the levee structure for no pay because they knew it was so important, but even with that, with little money coming from Bush, the project was abandoned.
September 1st, 2005 at 8:25 pmPeople in the Netherlands (surrounded by levees and dikes) can't believe that a third-world problem like this would happen in the U.S.
This is a national disgrace on a nationally disgraceful president with his disgraceful friends in high places all having risen to the Peter Principle -- that is you keep rising in the organization until you reach your level of total incompetence and there you stay until you retire....or in this case you might get a medal of freedom, and speaking engagements for the rest of yourlife.
#11
September 1st, 2005 at 8:28 pmThe engineers said this would not survive a CAT 3 storm! much less a Cat 5. They WARNED of this -- don't try to squirm out of it for Bush's sake. He's not worth it.
#20 Inq. minds I think you answered your own question. Does criminal neglect - manslaughter qualify asan impeachable crime?
September 1st, 2005 at 8:31 pmRE: Rioc #11
September 1st, 2005 at 8:34 pmWhat the heck does being in the military have to do with this thread? I quote:
"Try to blame Bush, but you only have yourselves to blame for being uniformed."
The guys and gals in uniforms are over there instead of here and helping Americans because of Cheney's misguided war and his puppet Bush.
Six of those babies in 106 years yeilds about one every 18 years - certainly not an event every century.
Bushie is defending our accusations like we knew he would. Of course its Clintons and Carters fault.
The facts are the facts and Bushie can add this body count to his resume.
votetoimpeach.org
September 1st, 2005 at 8:55 pmWhy isnt anyone looking at the local / state govt in this? the federal / state / local govt failed. Where was the local evacuation plan? why werent buses set up for the poor and sick when we knew on Saturday / Sunday that this storm was hitting? Why the heck weren't hospitals evuated?
You cant blame this all on Bush - there are many politicians responsible for this. Blaming it on one person is only going to do injustice to what we learn from this.
September 1st, 2005 at 9:04 pmRe: #30
September 1st, 2005 at 9:16 pmThe last time that I was in a major hurricane, the closest rooms were in Tennessee. I was in Florida - how can my local government find a place for evacuation? I went on the net and reserved a place. What is the poor family without access to the internet, much less a phone going to do? This is a national issue - not something that should be entrusted to Boss Hogg or Sheriff Cahoon.
Sorry - that's Sheriff Rosco Coltrane
September 1st, 2005 at 9:22 pmright of you, the director of FEMA (Bushies golf buddie who has no experience in emergency management) didn't even know that the Convention Center was an emergency shelter. The local politicians told people to go there yet the federal morons had no clue. People have been there for four days without food and water.
Don't blame this on local politicians, they did what they were supposed to do. You loser of a leader failed, again.
The refugees are better off with Cindy Sheehan and the folks camped at the Crawford ranch where they will be taken care of.
September 1st, 2005 at 9:22 pmSusan,
September 1st, 2005 at 9:40 pmExcellent thread. Put up a trailer city at the Crawford Dude Ranch and let the hurricane victims stay there. All the brush has been trucked up to Camp David by now and the area should be level, except for the bike trails.
WaltTheMan, there are still a couple of dozen people in Crawford who say they aren't leaving until the war ends. That means the refugees have several years to call Crawford home.
I emailed Cindy Sheehan and asked her to help the victims by taking them to D.C. or Crawford. What do they have to lose? I will send money if it is distributed by Cindy's compassionate organizations.
September 1st, 2005 at 10:04 pmHi guys,
I live west of Sydney, and have been watching psychoshrub "running" your country since his illegal appointment in 2000. You have my deepest sympathy. Our PM, Howard, has his head shoved firmly up psychoshrub's butt, and now controls our senate also. God help us too - he has now accelerated the wealth-transfer plans of the sicko-phant right here. I'll say this: we ALL have a constitutional and civic responsibility to be INFORMED and educated about our "government". When they pull stunts, an informed public can quickly make their jobs VERY untenable. We have ourselves to blame, but need to take accountability issues FAR more seriously. 911 is your misadministration's achilees heel, as it were. New Orleans is merely a symptom. DO SOMETHING, before the puppet masters REALLY get stuck into you. Same goes for me!
Cheers
September 1st, 2005 at 10:17 pmThanks for your support Pete.
September 1st, 2005 at 10:20 pmTo Pete, down-under - cheers, have a Fosters.
September 1st, 2005 at 10:32 pmSeriously,
Psychoshrub can't go full term. People here are already feeling the sting via his defacto policy arm of Howard.
BTW, would like to thank you guys for giving us Stone Temple Pilots - our favourite band to cover! I need another coffee.
Ta ta, all the best.
September 1st, 2005 at 11:01 pmUnfortunately, we have another 1235 days to get rid of the imbecile/traitor and all of his profiteers and looters. The mid terms offer a dim hope if an honest election can be forged.
September 1st, 2005 at 11:41 pmWalttheMan I am counting the days until we can dump this turd in the White House. Maybe we can do something if we gain some control in Congress in 2006, but even if we do, that won't happen until January 2007. I shudder to think of what further disasters will befall us and others at the hands of this incompetent moron. I have run out of adjectives to describe the man -- when I have to resort to swearing, I have reached the end of my rope and my thesaurus. I think he has ruined the nation abroad, he has ruined the nation within, and he is hell-bent on total destruction of the nation as we know it. Impeachment would be great, but we can't do it without Congress.
September 2nd, 2005 at 12:05 amToday, on the local news coverage they had a man whose life was destroyed by the hurricane bashing Bush. The local (Fox, duh) reporter quickly added that democrats must also shoulder some of the blame. Mark that down. This is going to be the Bush strategy. He's going to make the mayor of a very impoverished city, in an extremely impoverished state, the fall guy. Maybe when the flood hit, the mayor should have looked at the chief of police and said.."Thank God George Bush is our president!". He missed a great political opportunity.
I'm getting sort of tired of seeing Bill Clinton standing next to George Bush II and George Bush I. I'm sure it's a good cause, but why doesn't he just do it by himself. He legitimizes these bastards every time he stands next to them.
September 2nd, 2005 at 12:12 amHURRICANE BUSH STRIKES AGAIN...AND AGAIN...AND AGAIN...AND AGAIN...AND AGAIN...AND AGAIN...AND AGAIN...AND AGAIN...AND AGAIN...AND AGAIN...AND AGAIN...AND AGAIN...AND AGAIN...AND AGAIN...AND AGAIN...AND AGAIN...AND AGAIN...AND AGAIN...
AND THERE IS NO DISASTER RELIEF IN SIGHT!!!!!!!!!!
September 2nd, 2005 at 12:12 amYou guys can blame Bush until you're blue in the face but reality is that for 40 years the experts have been recommending the levees around NO be upgraded. Not a single administration has taken heed. Certainly not to any extent that could have mitigated this disaster much. I also read that the upgrades needed would have taken in excess of 7 years so even if Bush had started the day he took office it would not have made much difference. Even with the upgrades there would be no guarantee that a hurricane of this size and magnitude would not have caused the same amount of damage. To blame this on Bush is akin to blaming the '05 Tsumami on Indonesian governments. Natural disasters happen and mother nature is a son of a bitch not to be fucked with!
What is most disturbing is the total and complete lack of response to this situation of any substance. The tragedy here is that they can't even get water or food in any substainable quantity to the areas where people are know to have gathered. And I don't care if you didn't know the convention center was a spot that refugees gravitated to. You see on TV that it has become so, treat it accordingly!!
The actual event cannot be blamed on any one person but the handling of it can so come on people, either shut up or help and quit pointing fingers! Right now it's about those in need and not whose to blame!!
September 2nd, 2005 at 3:04 amRE: Clinton...living ex-presidents is a very exclusive club.
September 2nd, 2005 at 5:26 amWhat's the local city and state going to do about a national disaster in their back yard when their own National Guard forces are in IRAQ? Is that a failure of the local government, too?
September 2nd, 2005 at 8:58 amJust heard on CNN this morning that the House of Representatives is going to release $10 billion in emergency aid - THIS WHOLE DESPERATE SITUATION COULD HAVE BEEN AVOIDED IF THE BUSH WHITE HOUSE AND CONGRESS WOULD HAVE FUNDED THE $70 MILLION NEEDED TO SHORE UP THE LEVIES! Another fine example of fiscal responsibility by the "Conservative" Republicans. Refuse to spend $70 million to prevent disaster, and now spend $10 BILLION to clean up their mess - and there's no price tag you can even put on the untold suffering of the people - and all the unnecessary deaths - most of which could have been avoided if Bush & his cronies weren't so busy rewarding their cronies with tax cuts & war contracts.
September 2nd, 2005 at 9:13 amTragic and disgraceful
I’m getting sort of tired of seeing Bill Clinton standing next to George Bush II and George Bush I.
When disaster strikes, Dubya understands he needs the leadership of a real president. If we're lucky he will turn over more of his reponsibilities to them.
Rico, you're an idiot if you think I'm pretending to know about flooding. That's why I defer to the experts at the Corps and LSU. Unlike you and all the dumb hicks at redstate.org, who all know everything about levees all of the sudden.
I never said there's anything wrong with name calling. I merely said you can always do it. Asshat.
September 2nd, 2005 at 10:42 amThe latest argument from the sudden levee experts at redstate.org is the levee that broke was recently worked on. Therefore, they had plenty of money and there's nothing more anyone could possibly do to protect the city from hurricanes.
Hell, Amsterdam doesn't have cat 5 hurricanes, and they probably outspent NO by a damn sight on flood control.
Enjoy your tax cuts and SUVs, Republican traitors.
September 2nd, 2005 at 10:48 amHippie must finally realize he doesn't know what he's talking about. The experts are the USCOE. From the Chi-Trib:
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said Thursday that a lack of funding for hurricane-protection projects around New Orleans did not contribute to the disastrous flooding that followed Hurricane Katrina.
In a telephone interview with reporters, corps officials said that although portions of the flood-protection levees remain incomplete, the levees near Lake Pontchartrain that gave way--inundating much of the city--were completed and in good condition before the hurricane.
However, they noted that the levees were designed for a Category 3 hurricane and couldn't handle the ferocious winds and raging waters from Hurricane Katrina, which was a Category 4 storm when it hit the coastline. The decision to build levees for a Category 3 hurricane was made decades ago based on a cost-benefit analysis.
September 2nd, 2005 at 6:00 pmsusan -
to exempt the local / state politicians from any responsibility in this is only going to hurt our country. you, me, nor anyone else will be able to learn from the mistakes - from the bottom to the top. tell me, when the storm was coming, what were they doing? no plan? no evacuation, until the president called and recommended it!! a mandatory evacuation of a city, yet they fail to provide any type of transportation, much less evacuate the hospitals? are you seriously saying that the federal govt has the only responsibility here? Are you telling me that the federal govt had time (48 hours) to get into New Orleans and safely evacuate who needed it? NO - that is what the local / state officials should have done.
let me sum this up for you who is responsible:
the hurricane: mother nature
September 2nd, 2005 at 6:50 pmunderfunded levee/floodgate work: fed /local / state
no evacuation plan: fed / local / state
no help for almost 5 days for some: fed / state / violence.
Sorry sucker, you've been had again. But you enjoy it don't you.
Bushie cut funds, thousands died!
September 2nd, 2005 at 9:15 pmSewie, you're lying. In todays NYT and Chi Trib:
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said Thursday that a lack of funding for hurricane-protection
projects around New Orleans did not contribute to the disastrous flooding that followed Hurricane
Katrina. In a telephone interview with reporters, corps officials said that although portions of the
flood-protection levees remain incomplete, the levees near Lake Pontchartrain that gave
way--inundating much of the city--were completed and in good condition before the hurricane.
However, they noted that the levees were designed for a Category 3 hurricane and couldn't handle the
September 2nd, 2005 at 9:49 pmferocious winds and raging waters from Hurricane Katrina, which was a Category 4 storm when it hit
the coastline. The decision to build levees for a Category 3 hurricane was made decades ago based on
a cost-benefit analysis.
People who live in the mountains agree to put up with copius amounts of winter snow. People who live in the desert agree to put up with stiffling heat and little water. People who live on FLOOD PLAINS in HURRICANE country must put up with the consequences of flooding.
September 4th, 2005 at 4:26 amThis disaster has been predicted for decades. I saw a TV special on the Discovery Channel years ago, predicting just this scenario. The scenario predicted the levees would fail, and the city - built below sea level would fill up with storm surged sea water. Hey, who built New Orleans on the perfect flood plain anyway? Oh that's right, it was the FRENCH! Why don't you blame France, since you must blame someone? The only way to avoid this disaster was to fill-in the New Orleans basin with sand!
Global warming caused this Hurricane? The levees were inadaquate? Bush's fault? NO WAY! Historically speaking, bad storms happen all the time. They've been happening for centuries, mind you - even for milennia!
To use the consequences of a category 5 hurricane in order to further your liberal agendas is ignoring the obvious: By living in New Orleans, IT'S RESIDENTS CHOSE TO IGNORE CONVENTIONAL WISDOM, to laugh in the face of Mother Nature, to take the risk: "Oh, it won't happen here." They were told to evacuate in plenty of time. And by not heeding the MANDATORY EVACUATION ORDER, residents have to face the consequences of that choice. And don't tell me that they couldn't have caught a cab, bus, train, street car, or even WALKED out of harm's way. They must have been too busy looting, drinking 'Hurricanes,' and scoring another 'hit' of crack to evacuate.
Oh, and by the way, for you liberals who don't know anything about the law. A governor must ASK for federal help BEFORE a president can send in the troops! Federal troops arrived within 48 hours of that request.
Bush and his government are a disgrace.
I looks like a thrid world country how they handle things.
It's also sad that political things are blocking help from Cuba where Fidal offered 400 doctors and tons of medicare help, sad, sad.
That they also don't accept the Dutch offer to let the Dutch Levee experts in is the biggest joke I have seen.
Way to go Bush, Fema, Mema.....bunch of jokers.
PS.
What if a bad country declares war with the US, then it will take 6 days before they even have a small army ready :)
September 5th, 2005 at 8:02 pm#54 - Mr. Finnegan, you are an idiot!!!
You tell me where people barely living paycheck to paycheck could've gone to escape what happened to them. How dare you accuse those who stayed of being looters, drunks, and drug addicts.
My suspicion is that you live a very comfortable, sheltered life, and have neither now nor ever had to struggle for necessities. These mostly poor people did what they thought was best by taking shelter where they could, assuming that we had a government that cared as much for them as it does for the oppressed people of Iraq.
I feel very fortunate to live in a city like Austin, that has opened it's doors to those devastated by this tragedy. I hope that if you are ever in such a situation, you'll encounter people like those here (and in other communities that have taken in those displaced)and not be confronted with someone as cold, heartless, and judgemental as you seem to be.
September 7th, 2005 at 5:00 pmThe law books clearly say, the Governor of the state has to act first! 2 days before it hit I couldn't
believe that more pre-planning was not being done.
2,000 school busses were flooded when they could have been moved to higher ground, before Katrinia hit.
The planning down there was terriable on getting people out 2 days before. I'm a regisered Independent and, I'm sick of everything being blamming on Bush.
NO State Governor will be finished after this.
NO and the whole gulf coast should have had a rock solid plan after HURRICANE CAMILLE - August 17, 1969.
September 8th, 2005 at 8:50 amThere is plenty of blam to go around starting back to 1970!!!
To GFox - #57: Did you happen to know that the LA Gov. DID IN FACT request federal help on the Saturday before the storm hit? You can read the letter at http://www.gov.state.la.us/govletters.asp That is why the White House retracted its comments regarding the "well they gotta ask first" BuSh*t. Who's he kidding? Louisiana was on the ball, Bush was on vacation. Buy the looks of your spelling, you haven't reviewed many law books, so stop with the "waaah everyone's 'blammin' on Bush. Bet yer red ass we blammin on Boosh. Isn't it "terriable"? Bet you wish you woulda used strategery when you wrote your cute little note about all the "...blam to go around".
September 12th, 2005 at 3:09 pmBLAME GAME
September 13th, 2005 at 4:09 pmIF AND WHEN YOU RETIRE FROM THE BLAME GAME, PLEASE TURN YOU EFFORTS TOWARDS HELPING THE GULF COAST AREA OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!
Chris C, I'm sure that you are putting forth your best effort as well. Thanks to budget cuts and the total disregard for the levies that protect our most important port, all Americans will be affected by this tragedy. We all will pay and pay and pay for the administration's lack of foresight. I don't understand why you are yelling on this website, instead of yelling at the White House.
September 14th, 2005 at 10:12 amWhy don't you "TURN YOU EFFORTS" into demanding accountability from the administration you so admire? Can you not see that your country has gone down the toilet since the four voting machine companies gave your boy the office? Are you not scared of what the next couple of years could bring? I have never been more petrified of what could happen or how in God's name we can ever recover from the damage, much of which was preventable. Please stop yelling at those of us who cannot and will not accept that this administration says and thinks it is doing everything in its power to do what's in America's best interest. That is a glaring and offensive lie. The group in charge is taking care of themselves and no one else. How much do you want to bet that Halliburton will get a "no-bid" to help in the recovery? Your precious Dick still has an abundance of its stock in trust, just waiting the day he's done with the White House. It should be a crime.
I would like to know how in the world are these people suppose to pay their bills if they have no jobs and how in the world are they going to move back there knowing that there are many hurricanes that come threw there. Also I think that what ever they were doing wrong in new orleans and all around that area they need to tell God to forgive them and everyone around because the hurricane rita is coming right down that same path into the areas where most of the hurricane victims are relocating for the time being. I do give my part in helping out but I don't know why someone would risk going back to something like that that is likely to reoccur.
September 20th, 2005 at 5:34 pmYou can surely tell that the Gov of Lousiana and the Mayor or New Orleans are both Lib's Dem's -- God forbid the media blame fellow Libs for anything -- much easier to Bash the President isn't it people...
September 23rd, 2005 at 3:15 pmThis shit is bananas, B-A-N-A-N-A-S
September 28th, 2005 at 9:54 pmGod bless this city and i hope that everything will get back to normal very soon! If only the levees did not have cracks in the first place....
September 28th, 2005 at 9:58 pm