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Rewiring (and Unwiring) New Orleans
stinkymountain writes "Is New Orleans bouncing back from Hurricane Katrina with the most advanced telecom system in the country? According to Network World, carriers have invested billions to rebuild the wired and wireless networks in the city, and businesses are taking advantage of new, advanced telecom services."
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As an adjuster that was there for 7 months after the storm hit let me give my perspective and my rant. I had one Police Officer tell me when he saw that I was armed, "You know, its nice to know we finally out gun the bastards" NOLA is an entitlement city. Everyone thinks they are entitled to every penny they can get Look at the FEMA money that poured out to the residents (more than in 2004 florida). I had more than one insured tell me that it was my duty and responsibility as a white man to provide for the poor blacks in NOLA all I can say is, Nagin you have your chocolate city back enjoy the poverty, the crime and the 34 murders a month no one wants to move back except the crooks they are just pissed since Lousiana is the only entitlement state All other stated don't care that your great great grandpappy was a slave nor are they going to give you any money for that fact either
-- I am the NRA, enough said...
Considering just how much damage was done, and how many people cleared out/died, I'd say that it's a lot more possible to move the city now than it would be to move a city that's fully populated. If San Francisco got evacuated and basically got wiped out, then yeah, I'd probably recommend that most people stay away from that area in the future. But they haven't completely evacuated (or I should say, gave a weak attempt at completely evacuating), so it makes no sense. Also, earthquake threat is a lot less serious to San Francisco than hurricane threat is to New Orleans. Nobody knows where an earthquake will strike in California. It doesn't have to be in or near San Francisco. Heck, an earthquake could strike in New Orleans. But to rebuild a city in a bowl below sea level in an area that gets a lot of hurricanes every year and got wiped out once already in an easily preventable situation is nothing short of suicidal. There's a reason why a lot of people who left aren't coming back, it doesn't take a genius to understand why.
I'm not trying to be insensitive here. I think it was tremendous human tragedy that happened in that city and it was a disgraceful response from the government. I respect those that want to hold onto their culture. I'm just sayin', if you want to hold onto it, do it in a place that's not going to get yourselves killed (again). Don't be suicidal, learn the lessons that so many people died to teach you.
-mrxak
Onions Will Kill You
Are you perhaps a resident of New Orleans? As an ACTUAL Katrina survivor I can honestly say that the city of New Orleans got exactly what it deserved. They build a city at the bottom of a lake bed, and it floods, big surprise. The only reason there was such a big media hype about the city after Hurrican Katrina is because it was not actually hit by the hurricane itself. There were building and water a couple stories deep that showed you how bad it was. Go look at pictures of Mississippi, they rarely showed those because for about 300 yards in from the beach, everything was gone. No buldings left standing, nothing to show. It was all gone, you would have to show before and after pictures in order for it to have any effect.
So let them rebuild New Orleans however they damn well please, it will only get flooded again, and this time the "rich, white people", as you so politally correct called them, will be flooded instead. Oh and FYI, the rich are rebuilding because they are the ones that can pay for the supplies, and pay for the labor it requires to rebuild. It is not up to the government to rebuild these homes, they were bad and over priced anyway.