http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7590332.stm He's certainly not sparing any sympathy for those stupid enough to stick it through this one- not that they'll probably be alive for it to matter anyway.
I like this from CNN - Unlike the situation during Katrina, there will be no "shelter of last resort," the city said. In 2005, the city's Louisiana Superdome housed thousands of New Orleanians who couldn't, or didn't, heed the mandatory evacuation order. Real sympathy here!!!! John Full text: http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/weather/08/30/gustav.prepare/index.html?eref=rss_topstories Quote is at the end
Its like that area, whats it called? death valley? or is it tornado valley? maybe you should make your home in a place with a better name. may I suggest : http://www.baccalieutourism.com/baccalieu/*****.htm or http://www.baccalieutourism.com/baccalieu/cupids.htm They sounds like much better places to live.
I have little sympathy for people who live somewhere hot and sunny and then suffer a natural disaster, considering here the last warm and sunny day I can remember was in May, possibly April. [/bitter]
This doesn't surprise me: http://edition.cnn.com/2008/US/weather/08/30/new.orleans/index.html but it doesn't make them any less crazy. Godspeed to everyone in Gustav's path.
If only this were a year later, we might get to see Eminem say "Barack Obama doesn't care about white people". I've already got my coat...
Move to Alaska, there's no real natural disasters up there but the occasional earth quake and forest fire.
I was down there 6 months ago with a group of photographers, documenting relief efforts and we're going back at the end of September. We'll see if we can even move around down there. Might be that it'll be too flooded, still. Personally, I think if they were more prepared, I'd have more faith in them, but to be perfectly honest, I don't think they're ready for another storm like this.
Serves them right for building a coast-line city below sea level, tbh. I don't want to see people hurt, but what else can you expect when you've apparently got the dumbest civil engineers on the face of the earth?
Oh boy. I did some relief work in New Orleans about nine months after Katrina, they were barely patching themselves together. There were serious discussions of not rebuilding some of the most damaged (and poorest) areas. But they were basically trying to rebuild the city as it was. If it floods again, I doubt that'll happen. The tourist areas are the oldest parts (and therefore the only parts above water level), so Mardi Gras and Bourbon Street will survive, but the rest of the city? I doubt it. We'll see. Funny story: I went with a Salvation Army group from my college to do some volunteer work during February break. On our first night there, our fearless leader decided to take a drive and see the city. He looked at a map, but didn't take it with him. The long-term volunteers told him the major road names to look for and 'just don't turn onto Bourbon Street'. (The Salvation Army is notoriously against alcohol. They do not drink a drop.) So we all piled into the sixteen passenger van we'd borrowed from the local base, and took off. Sure enough, we ended up in the seedier part of the French Quarter. Our leader made a turn to try and get out of it, and suddenly every building on the street was either a bar or a strip club. Yup, we drove down Bourbon Street. In a huge van with the Salvation Army logo emblazoned on the side. I think we convinced a few people that they'd really had enough to drink for the night, as they MUST be hallucinating...
We're stocking up on gas/food/etc here, as we've seen the city triple in size from the refugees. Bear in mind though I am inland, we will get a HELL of a beating if it's a Cat5.
