New Orleans will never recover

[gjohnson5]

The following is from CNN

Widespread looting and random gunfire have been reported across New Orleans. Police told CNN that groups of armed men roamed the streets overnight.
Officers told CNN they lacked manpower and steady communications to properly do their jobs -- and that they needed help to prevent the widespread looting and violence now prevalent in the city.

A police officer working in downtown New Orleans said police were siphoning gas from abandoned vehicles in an effort to keep their squad cars running, CNN's Lawrence reported.

The officer said police are "on their own" for food and water, scrounging up what they can from anybody who is generous enough to give them some -- and that they have no communication whatsoever. Police also told CNN they were removing ammunition from looted gunshops in an effort to get it off the streets.


New Orleans will never recover from this. The city is dead. A new one may rise up in 20 years, but it will not resemble the old.

Relax Matt... You show your youth on this post. I am in contact with my peoples in New Orleans as I type this. The city will be back on it's feet and these groups of armed gunman will be handled

 

[gjohnson5]

Now that I have your attention...
People are in desparate need. The okie's will be put down. Law enforcement will catch them sooner or later. From what I understand martial law is in place and NO should be allowing residents in by Monday. I will be going in there and I will have alot to say.

 

[75th]

Now that I have your attention...
People are in desparate need. The okie's will be put down. Law enforcement will catch them sooner or later. From what I understand martial law is in place and NO should be allowing residents in by Monday. I will be going in there and I will have alot to say.

Believe it or not, in a case such as this with an impending health epidemic, sooner is a lot different than later. Maybe your peoples might know that as well.

 

[SoKlueles]

Why cant EVERY disaster that happens in the US be chalked down as just disaster???
blame bin laden for 9/11
blame nature for the hurricanes
I mean it never fails.....it ALWAYS becomes political.

 

[John C Calhoun]

I think New Orleans will recover and prosper over time. The tenemants will be razed and a smart developer will put up nice homes, condos, etc. replacing all the ghettos. Don't know how many of you have been to NO lately, but there are parts of it that are absolutely awful and not safe. The leveys will be made stronger and if another hurricane is coming the city will evacuate. Flood insurance will cover the damages just like other coastal communities that are often hit. I suspect the 200,000 or so New Orleans refugees that live in the ghettos will stay wherever they wind up - Baton Rouge, TX, etc. because they will not be able to afford to come back.

 

[Spartacus]

Relax Matt... You show your youth on this post. I am in contact with my peoples in New Orleans as I type this. The city will be back on it's feet and these groups of armed gunman will be handled

I agree
NO will recover/be rebuilt/reconstited/etc

 

[gjohnson5]

I think New Orleans will recover and prosper over time. The tenemants will be razed and a smart developer will put up nice homes, condos, etc. replacing all the ghettos. Don't know how many of you have been to NO lately, but there are parts of it that are absolutely awful and not safe. The leveys will be made stronger and if another hurricane is coming the city will evacuate. Flood insurance will cover the damages just like other coastal communities that are often hit. I suspect the 200,000 or so New Orleans refugees that live in the ghettos will stay wherever they wind up - Baton Rouge, TX, etc. because they will not be able to afford to come back.

Well the main problem is the levees. The town will need to be redesigned in whatever manner we have at our technological disposal. The sinking will need to be addressed. Maybe the atchafalya will need to be slowed in some manner to allow sediment to be dropped in areas around town like mini levees. As we can see a steel reinforced concrete wall about 2 feet wide just isn't good enough for a CAT 5 Hurricane. Multiple points of "pressure release" are needed How the army corps of engineers is going to do this , I have no idea , but there is martial law in New orleans as we speak and the gunmen need to be killed

 

[ChefWide]

a more than difficult call, but SHOULD they rebuild it? what comes with the next catastrophe? its A FRIGGIN SOUP BOWL!

It will never be the city we knew, who can even guage the cost of reconstructing it?

 

[Spartacus]

Yeah, plus Walmart is one of the, if not the largest corporation in America!

and unlike "mom and pop pawn shop" walmart failed to evacuate it's weaponry when they closed the doors
imo very irresponsible

 

[velvett]

Why cant EVERY disaster that happens in the US be chalked down as just disaster???
blame bin laden for 9/11
blame nature for the hurricanes
I mean it never fails.....it ALWAYS becomes political.

I think it's safe to say it's an act of God as most natural disasters. The problem with natural disasters (Acts of God) is that humans are invloved as well as their actions and reactions to such disaster and that is were all sorts of additional problems are spawn.