Tsunami? New Orleans? Who?

LeRoy_Leo · Posted: Mon Dec 26, 2005 6:03 pm Post subject:

It's still on the news, but not on the major news channels, I think. I saw a piece about it on the local news in Omaha just a day ago. It looks like things are more or less back to normal; in the French quarter and higher land at least. They have a 2 am curfew now because of the past looting, but it looks like people are settling back in. Also, I think they moved most of the town up away from the ocean a bit and let the wetlands have the land that was drowned.

I don't know the body count, but I'm sure it's unimaginable. People are still finding body parts clogging sewer and drainpipes all over the place, or that's what I heard. A lot of bodies from the above ground cemeteries washed in the mess too, so there are dead bodies that were dead before the catastrophe happened. I'm not entirely certain how people could get torn apart in a flood. Trying to figure out to whom all the pieces belong to would be a fruitless waste of time, that's what I think about a body count.

On the subject of New Orleans: people are coming back, but not too many. Only 20,000 people returned, and that's not a lot considering how many people loved the town. You saw all the trouble some of the people who lived there caused; rescue crews couldn't get some to leave their sinking homes.
Then there are people who say they are happier living somewhere else. It's a matter of taste brought on by experience.

Hope that clears some questions up.
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Phil Arts · Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2006 7:30 am Post subject:

Fenrir-Lunaris · **WUT** Joined: 03 Feb 2003 Posts: 1747

I'm from Shreveport, which is about as far away from New Orleans as you can get and still be in the same state. With New Orleans practically *dead*, this makes us the largest contributor to our state's income, which suffice to say isn't all that great. I *STILL* see FEMA and redcross guys coming into my work to buy stuff for disaster relief. 5 months later and there's still not really a letup.

Right now they're trying to get these people into more permanent housing around here, seeing as many are living out of shelters and crummy motel 6's. Permanent housing = $500 monthly rent in a roach infested apartment while on minimum wage because the only jobs that would have hired you were Goodwill and McDonalds. There are exceptions of course, though mostly the effort is to try to get people back to New Orleans and stay there. I hear about sign on bonuses and pay raises for fled employees who return.

Eggie · Joined: 12 May 2003 Posts: 904

Thank you all for your input. I feel a lot more informed about the current conflicts. It is nice to be updated with this intelligence.

DomGallo · Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2006 11:00 pm Post subject:

As for New Orleans, in my experience there, it was rather divided up between "Semi-decent place to live" and "OMG HISTORIC PISSHOLE". Sadly, it seems most of the historic pisshole places are either undamaged, or no one can tell the difference.
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