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Mayor Orders Mandatory Evacuation of New Orleans
Pickens writes "City officials ordered everyone to leave New Orleans beginning Sunday morning — the first mandatory evacuation since Hurricane Katrina flooded the city three years ago — as Hurricane Gustav grew into what the city's mayor called 'the storm of the century' and moved toward the Louisiana coast. 'This is the real deal. This is not a test. For everyone thinking they can ride this storm out, I have news for you: that will be one of the biggest mistakes you can make in your life,' said New Orleans mayor, C. Ray Nagin. Already, hundreds of thousands of residents had begun streaming north from New Orleans and other Gulf Coast areas stretching from the Florida Panhandle to Houston. Bush administration officials took pains not to be caught as flatfooted as they were in Hurricane Katrina, announcing that President Bush had called governors in the region to assure them of assistance and that top federal emergency officials were in the region to guide the response. 'We could see flooding that is worse than what we saw with Katrina,' said Louisiana Governor Jindal."
The US Geological Survey will be running a real-time "Map of Hydrologic Impacts" to monitor flood levels, and the National Weather Service has charted direction and wind-speed probabilities. Reader technix4beos points out the need for IRC transcription of FEMA and NOAA feeds.
Because a tree falling in your house is so nerdy.
Thank you, Senator McCain.
You are welcome on my lawn.
So make it an industrial zone. Nothing residential. Move "New Orleans" above sea-level and have it be the new city where everyone can live, steal, get drunk, and go around raping white girls who are there to 'party.'
Not a Twitter sockpuppet... but I wish I was.
Do you think Miss Palin is aware that she's not supposed to shoot the residents of New Orleans from a helicopter?
Reading her bio, I wonder if she's ever met a black person.
You are welcome on my lawn.
It's below sea level in one of the most hurricane prone places on earth. Why are rebuilding and living there?
Make it an industrial zone and be done with it. Use the money to permanently relocate the population, not rebuild their soon-to-be blown away homes again.
But my grand daddy was dumb enough to build here! Alls we needs is a new big levy. Big new levy. 3 words.. New. Big. Levy.
Den we rebuilds it! It go'n work this time 'round cuz I know God is watchin over us.
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It would be foolish to rebuild New Orleans. Nostalgia prevails, unfortunately.
For decades now, the KKK crowd has been the property of the Republican Party.
Care to cite the links between the KKK and the Republican party. Apparently I'm uneducated since I failed to find any.
There's no place like
> It's the fed. The fed does NOTHING quickly.
> Why this is so fucking hard to understand amazes me.
"The fed" - that is, your federal government - has agencies that are specifically designed to work quickly and effectively and do so. Unless they are deliberately staffed with managers whose assignment is to destroy them and prove that they "don't work" - which is exactly how FEMA was staffed and tasked when Katrina hit. FEMA worked quite effectively in previous disaster situations. Heck of a job.
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