I Hope There Are No Louisianans Here

[Amanda]

I know this is off-topic, but it's too important to ignore. I expect we'll wake up to tens of thousands of deaths and tens of billions in property damage tomorrow morning with this Hurricane Katrina. I read up on the impact of a Category 5 hurricane hitting New Orleans a few years back. Expect it to have the same effect on southeast Louisiana that the tsunami had on coastal communities in Southeast Asia. Unless the storm dies or quickly changes course in the next seven or eight hours, we're looking at the worst day our country has seen since 9-11 :(

[TheSilentChamber]

I'm several hundred miles away from New Orleans and people are traveling up this far just to find hotels to stay at. Not to make light of a bad situation.. but some parts of New Orleans could use a good wash down and air out for a while.

[Crickett]

I'm several hundred miles away from New Orleans and people are traveling up this far just to find hotels to stay at. Not to make light of a bad situation.. but some parts of New Orleans could use a good wash down and air out for a while.

Yea while new orleans does stink... if what is predicted will happen... the water will overflow the levees like water overflows and sinks a canoe. Just flows in right over the edges of the levees. This will leave the city of New Orleans a giant pond. Some are even predicting that coffins from the cemetaries will come dislodged from the ground. It is VERY sad indeed.

I agree Amanda... tomorrow morning will be one of the worst in our counrty's history. May god be with those souls who think they can survive this storm. Hopefully there will be a city called New Orleans after tomorrow.

[Neuromancer]

I'm several hundred miles away from New Orleans and people are traveling up this far just to find hotels to stay at. Not to make light of a bad situation.. but some parts of New Orleans could use a good wash down and air out for a while.

You're a moron...the property damage and loss of life is gonna be immense...they predict a million people could be homeless and the city could be under 25 feet of water, and could remain that way for weeks to come...and you glibly say "some parts of New Orleans could use a good wash down and air out for a while?" Did you also cheer when NYC was bombed on 9/11? Even followed by a smiley that's one of the stupidist thing's I've heard here yet...

[TheVitaleMob]

ditto, probably too serious to be joked about.

[TheSilentChamber]

Didnt mean to offend the people who cant laugh at something they cannot change. And compairing terrorism to natural disaster... well.. thats a new one. You better run out and get another flag to stick on your car in support of New Orleans.

[Neuromancer]

Didnt mean to offend the people who cant laugh at something they cannot change. And compairing terrorism to natural disaster... well.. thats a new one. You better run out and get another flag to stick on your car in support of New Orleans.

You're still a moron..laugh at a disaster of this magnitude? Is there something seriously wrong with the way you think? This is hardly a laughing matter, and the more you say the stupider you sound...would you like to make another comeback? It doesn't matter whether a disaster is caused by terrorism or natural means...it's still a disaster...did you laugh about the victims of the tsunami too? Sorry, everyone, for responding this way, but this guy either has a serious case of hoof-in-mouth disease, or somewhere a village is missing their idiot...

[Neuromancer]

Didnt mean to offend the people who cant laugh at something they cannot change. And compairing terrorism to natural disaster... well.. thats a new one. You better run out and get another flag to stick on your car in support of New Orleans.

Oh, wait...you're the guy that says they should laugh at what they cannot change...you think the people of New Orleans should laugh because they can't change the fact that their city was destroyed, huh, bunky?

[Bkcloud114]

Didnt mean to offend the people who cant laugh at something they cannot change. And compairing terrorism to natural disaster... well.. thats a new one. You better run out and get another flag to stick on your car in support of New Orleans.

This was a half-assed apology

[nhcigarfan]

rpcky16 is going to school in the Big easy. I PM'd him yesterday to wish him luck.

[cigar no baka]

Well thank the good lord that at the last second it took a turn to the east and didn't hit New Orleans dead on. A very close call, I hope the city takes it seriously and reconsiders the wisdom of locating a major metro area in an area that is below sea level....but probably too late to correct it in the short run. In the long run, I can't believe any developer in their right mind would develop anything in that death trap. Wait, hold on, I forgot in CA they are building new homes on landfill located over areas that are in a fault zone.....god, the short sightedness of some people...

[Bkcloud114]

Scientific......

You are correct in saying that everyone deals with stress differently, and we don't need to be psych majors or doctors to know this. But to make a joke out of someones suffering who are hundreds of miles away is just uncalled for. Some people laugh at death, when that death is close to them, not when it is happening to hundreds of people hundreds of miles away.

In my profession I have laughed during many stressful situations..... but i have never laughed at the suffering and deaths during Sept 11, Tsunami or Hurricane Katrina.

And just to clarify something........

The 1st Amendment gives all of us the freedom of speech...... Not the freedom to be an ASS

[Neuromancer]

I'm several hundred miles away from New Orleans and people are traveling up this far just to find hotels to stay at. Not to make light of a bad situation.. but some parts of New Orleans could use a good wash down and air out for a while.

Sure sounds like you felt it was amusing...did New Orleans get a good enough "wash down and air out" to suit you? Especially considering the fact that they are now calling for a total evacuation of the city as they can't get in to help the people that are still there? Considering the fact that it may be under water for weeks, and even perhaps months? And considering the fact that New Orelans will never be the same as it was? That most of it's charm and history are probably gone forever? Perhaps your advice to those that live there is "to shrug it off?" Perhaps they shouldn't let it bring them down either? That your advice for them, bunky?

[hex1848]

I know this is off-topic, but it's too important to ignore. I expect we'll wake up to tens of thousands of deaths and tens of billions in property damage tomorrow morning with this Hurricane Katrina. I read up on the impact of a Category 5 hurricane hitting New Orleans a few years back. Expect it to have the same effect on southeast Louisiana that the tsunami had on coastal communities in Southeast Asia. Unless the storm dies or quickly changes course in the next seven or eight hours, we're looking at the worst day our country has seen since 9-11 :(

Yeah, I was just in the Big Easy for the RTDA a couple of weeks back. Its kind of sad to think of what may happen tomorrow morning. Its one of my favorite cities in the US, I can’t imagine it not being there in 24 hours.

I remember watching a documentary on the Weather Channel a few years back where they discussed the possibility of a CAT 4/5 hitting New Orleans directly. It won’t be pretty if it hits it just right.

I got a buddy who is basically stuck in the city. He moved over to find work about a month ago and his car broke down a couple of weeks back. He is dead broke and hitting up the Super Dome for shelter (At least I hope he still is, he can be a hard headed f&$k sometimes).

I'm further east in Tallahassee, Florida. The models originally showed it was going to hit us before it crossed over into the Gulf. Thank god it didn't. We are about due for a direct hit though.

My thoughts and prays to everyone who will be affected by this storm.

[hex1848]

I'm addicted to this page: http://www.crownweather.com/tropical.html

Check out the size of this thing. It's a pretty amazing looking storm.

[TheSilentChamber]

Just watched the news, their saying its no loger a matter of "if" its a matter of "when". As for coffins poping up, I remember several years back when the Mississippi (I think) flooded and they had the same problem.

[hex1848]

Just watched the news, their saying its no loger a matter of "if" its a matter of "when". As for coffins poping up, I remember several years back when the Mississippi (I think) flooded and they had the same problem.

Yeesh.. I'm sitting on the couch and I'm like eh, lets see what the networks say about the storm. What a bunch of sensationalistic bull shit. Now I remember why I read news instead of watch news. Granted some of the articles I've read lately are pretty bad themselves.

[bigpoppapuff]

my ex-stepdaughter lives in NOLA with her 4y.o. daughter......they made it to galveston yesterday....she fully expects to lose everything......this is a bad one....

[Crickett]

my ex-stepdaughter lives in NOLA with her 4y.o. daughter......they made it to galveston yesterday....she fully expects to lose everything......this is a bad one....

The sad thing is.. if the hurricane doesn't get her things.. looters surely will.