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08-30-2007, 08:34 PM
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Interesting to see what this thread has to say. Well I guess some one from here should respond. I hardly watched yesterday and knew it would either be wonderful things happening or just horrible. I did catch the woman from St. Bernard Housing project whining that they are not rebuilding it. But those are the ones that get attention, mainly hard working people have picked up and regained their lives whether it be in NOLA, or the Miss. Gulf or moved over here to my side of the lake.
So now here's my take on things, from someone that lives here. Katrina is not just New Orleans it is a 90,000 sq. mile area from Louisiana thru Mississippi and into Alabama, we just get all the attention. Then came Rita to wipe out the rest of the gulf and part of Texas. You should see what is going on in western Louisiana and Eastern Texas. I will tell you that most of you never want to see the things I saw in the aftermath of Katrina, EVER. And I will never understand many things that happened, from people not leaving to the government not coming for 4 days. We can get to Achea in 24 hours but couldn't get to the Superdome. I saw the busses lined up on Tuesday in LaPlace and not moving. I watched the helicopters not come until Thursday nite 4 days later. We have multiple generators so I watched the whole thing on TV, didn't miss one minute, in air conditioning and stocked up for a CAT 5. We knew over here that when they said NOLA was spared the levees would probably fail. It has been a failure of every governmental agency from the Fed down to our State and local government. Private industry and volunteers are the ones that keep things going. NO red tape just hard work. However, how anyone can say a major metropolitan city of the United States and one of the oldest settlement in the US should not be rebuilt, well I just don't get that at all. I expect the people experiencing flooding in the midwest would want their homes and towns rebuilt. Or the people who have losses from mudslides, earthquakes and fires every year. Almost every place in America has some kind of vulnerability. You should hope it never happens to you. New York and Philly could easily flood in a Cat. 5, should we not rebuild? I live on the northshore was never going to experience flooding from the man-made disaster of the levees failing, but I'm only 30 minutes out of NOLA, I'm the next town on the interstate. They all came here. They only show the people biatching because the rest of the hard working folks dont have the time. Until it happens to you, you don't know how you will think or feel. How many of you responded? I know a few on here that did. Are you prepared? While the pundants from local, state and fed fuss, the citizens suffer. Easy for those that said it is all the mayor and the governor. Having travelled the world I never dreamed the lack of response and preparedness in the US could happen like this. I've been in military coups and the US came immediately half a world away, but couldnt get to NOLA. But you should be very aware prior to Katrina no US government agency was ready for a disaster of this magnitude. Now agencies are realizing they are not prepared. You should be very afraid and get prepared. Are you FEMA certified in the event of a disaster of any type in your area, I AM. We can bomb and rebuild Baghdad every day, but part of America should just die out.....I just don't get it. For those that responded here and get it, we thank you ! All I can say is.... Do you know what it means to miss New Orleans....I DO. fluer de lis.jpg.jpg Oh and to respond to the topic of the thread, yes you are wrong. Last edited by FGFan : 08-30-2007 at 08:50 PM. 
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08-30-2007, 09:02 PM
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Umm...I don't miss New Orleans. I heard it was for the most part a dirty place before the flood. I think many people have seen devastation. Do you remember 9/11? Many of my brother firefighters do. My brother firefighters in that skank city in Louisiana were being shot at by a bunch of hoodlums.
The city was built below sea level. The flood only brought attention to the shiathole it was and from all media reports it still is. Prepared for catastrophe? Nope we aren't. Dirty Bomb.....Death and much of it. Chemical attack..the same. Most of these people in New Orleans had a chance to get out and didn't. Why? 1. Lazy.....have had things done for them their whole lives. 2. Entitlement....Come get us Federal government. 3. Money Grubbing...To heck with leaving, we have welfare checks coming tomorrow. The funny thing about it is the fact this douche bag president goes and visits. What is wrong with him? They hate them there. This dipshiat idiot Mayor rips him constantly. No man, No sympathy here. No Way!!
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08-30-2007, 09:09 PM
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08-30-2007, 10:13 PM
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And don't believe all you see on CNN or any other media. Parts of the city are coming back. You should plan a trip to THE Fairgrounds when sumwon is here. 
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08-30-2007, 10:21 PM
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08-30-2007, 10:22 PM
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08-30-2007, 10:35 PM
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Yes The Fairgounds does provide thrilling races, Especially the stretch. And we have a great jockey colony, good horses and barns, lots of colorful characters and a ball at the Paddock bar. BTW the French Quarters has a new waste managament team they even spray the streets with perfume now so it's cleaner and smells prettier. But it still is a bawdy laissez la faire town.
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08-30-2007, 10:23 PM
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08-30-2007, 10:37 PM
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I have tried real hard to play nice on this one because it is a sensitive subject and I do kinda understand where everyone is coming from. The bottom line is race, income level, crime rate, education level, religion, or anything that has to do with the makeup of the city of New Orleans should not be in question period! The only thing that should be in question here is how did this happen in our country?!?
So you get a blizzard (yes I saw the pictures) and let's say it destroys your town. You have no food, no money, no home, and no one is coming to help you, then you are told "oh I know it's where your home is, but you know what, we think you would be better off on a cot in a gym somewhere in Idaho. Oh and don't worry about your things, they're gone, you don't have the blizzard insurance, so you aren't going to get anything for your years of labor, and we really don't know what happened to the rest of your family and neighbors, but hey, good luck to you." The inconvenience of the winter snows and associated power outages doesn't come close to what those people went through. I lived on the Gulf Coast and went through a pretty significant Hurricane (Elena) and just not having power, water, gas, etc for those 2 weeks was horrible. But again it all comes back to the fact that when a community in our country was in dire need of help, the people that were elected to provide that help were not there to answer the call.
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08-30-2007, 10:56 PM
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Uh did you not get the memo were all drinking beer now and giving up on how our country sucked in it's moment to shine? 
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08-30-2007, 09:47 PM
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Hope your glass house never shatters. Oh that's right you as a firefighter are not prepared. And we won't have to worry about helping anyone rebuild, New York or LA or Philly, or anywhere in the US. All I'm saying is that for a country as great as ours we should be able to handle disasters in a more efficient manner. But we are not prepared. Thankfully that is changing as a result of Katrina/Rita. As I said I have been all over the world, I love the US, I choose to settle here near NOLA, that could change. But I still LOVE New Orleans and I miss what it used to be as I would miss New York, Philly, DC, LA, San Fran, Chicago and many other cities around this world. Poverty is here in the US,all over the US, drug addicts exist and old people need help. If we can police and rescue the world we should do the same for our own citizens. I'm going to watch the Saints game now.
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08-30-2007, 09:56 PM
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08-30-2007, 10:17 PM
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 )... I'm watching LSU as well. Oh, and for those who haven't seen this (it's on my myspace page too): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seGhTWE98DU
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08-30-2007, 09:26 PM
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1. Two years ago(before the flood) I had family members who have traveled the country together tell me that New Orleans was by far the most disgusting city they've ever visited. 2. My power was fine during the storm because Fort Plain is not in the snowbelt. I have several people I know that live in those areas. But, as I'm sure you remember we were hit with a blizzard in February. But, unlike the people in New Orleans, we prepared for it. 3. You've never heard me ask for sympathy and most likely never will.
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08-30-2007, 09:33 PM
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FG FAN,
I re-read your post and my apologies. I'm sure it must have been awful to experience what you did. Nobody deserves what you and the people of New Orleans went through. I remember how helpless I felt watching the whole thing unfold in front of me on TV. There were some real acts of heroism during that entire ordeal. I can't help to think of what it was like for those folks in that retirement/nursing home. What an awful way to die. There are many things that went wrong with that whole catastrophe, but to play the blame game and biatch and moan and try to get hard working american people to feel sorry for lazy people is a little hard to take.
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08-30-2007, 10:10 PM
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Thank you for re-reading my original post. I saw that after I posted to your post. Anyway, I absolutely agree with you about the handouts, it's the same people that got them before bitching about getting them now. Funny thing is while us and many of our friends were in disasters areas 1. most of us didn't need help because we were prepared, and 2. we don't live off the system so we dont know how to get it, seriously we are really dumb about it. I have no sympathy for the people screaming for the housing projects. ( then again if they opened them back up we would know where the crime is, now it's just all over the city) But like I said 1.5 milion people evacuated, hard working people who paid dearly for insurance only to get screwed. One man raised his house 20 ft. out of pocket and because FEMA had not made the flood maps yet, he will not be reimbursed. So many have moved over here to my little 6 red light town we now have traffic jams, I am in the country. It all happened so fast you can't keep up with roads, and infrastructure. it's all crazy here, every day. The talking heads keep talking, the hard working folks just keep working and we send money to Baghdad everyday. AND do not get me wrong, I certainly support our troops, not the war in the wrong country. Katrina/Rita and now all this flooding in the midwest is a wake up call that we really need to take care of our own, especially the hard working people that just keep plugging along. The nursing home is an absolute disgrace..I hope those people rot in hell for leaving those old people there. And the animals, I responded as a vet tech. another disgrace. It is hard to judge when you don't live here and even harder when you do. I will never understand how this all happened in my beloved country.
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