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There’s good news this morning for the City of New Orleans and the NFL team that resides there.
Hurricane Gustav appears to be on target to make landfall elsewhere.
And while it’s unfortunate that some other community will be ravaged by high winds and storm surge, the fact that New Orleans is the city on the sea that happens to be below sea level justifies a little rooting for the storm to strike a different point on the Gulf Coast.
For folks who have left New Orleans and who don’t have access to local news, the Saints have provided a link to FOX 8 in New Orleans.
The Saints will be practicing in New Orleans, and hopefully playing on Sunday at home against the Buccaneers.
September 1st, 2008 at 9:25 am
“the fact that New Orleans is the city on the sea that happens to be below sea level justifies a little rooting for the storm to strike a different point on the Gulf Coast.”
No it doesn’t. I hope every hurricane hits New Orleans for that very fact. It’s utterly stupid to try to rebuild there after Katrina. The place is a shithole and it’s chock full of idiotic “victims” that turn everything they touch into shit and believe that they deserve a free ride for life because they were stupid enough to live in a place that’s below sea level and surrounded by water. The country would be better off if that gigantic money hole were to remain submerged forever.
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September 1st, 2008 at 10:16 am
Vox,
What I’d like to know is who are you really angry at? It’s exactly your kind of narrowmindedness and stupidity that keeps the human race from evolving.
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September 1st, 2008 at 10:30 am
Right. For that matter, we should tear down everything in the midwest and California, due to constant tornadoes, earthquakes, and wildfires.
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September 1st, 2008 at 11:22 am
Then we all should live on Mars. Nothing bad in terms of natural disasters happens there.
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September 1st, 2008 at 11:42 am
Yeah, and how about Holland? Anybody bother to tell those Dutch they have no right to hold back the sea for all these centuries! I don’t think Vox is that stupid, but he’s hiding behind a thin veil. Back to Gustav, a landfall to the west not far from NOLA is a worst case than a direct hit.
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September 1st, 2008 at 12:28 pm
“Yeah, and how about Holland? Anybody bother to tell those Dutch they have no right to hold back the sea for all these centuries!”
See, the difference between Holland and New Orleans is that the Dutch CAN actually hold the water back because they don’t get hurricanes.
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September 1st, 2008 at 3:54 pm
Holland gets some pretty heavy weather off the North Atlantic. The levies that broke AFTER Katrina should have held. The levies around New Orleans failed because they were not maintained. The failure was that of the Corps of Engineers, the federal government and the State of Louisiana to do their job. Those agencies were directly responsible for putting the people of New Orleans at risk, and the spectacle of peopled dying in a major American city from lack of attention to our infrastucture (as in the Minneapolis bridge failure) is unnacceptable. Stop blaming the victims.
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September 1st, 2008 at 6:24 pm
Mars actually has dust storms with winds of over 400 mph.
I hear that NASA is looking to send someone there anyway. Can I nominate the Vox bonehead?
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September 1st, 2008 at 6:27 pm
For the Corps to build levees strong enough to hold back a Cat 5 hurricane it would cost about 2 trillion dollars and take more than 20 years of construction. It is cheaper to rebuild the city every 20 yrs or so after a major hurricane strike. Far cheaper.
That being said, I also want to see Vox come up with the trillions upon trillions of dollars to “move” the city or to replace the infrastructure, the port, etc. The city is there for a reason bonehead.
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