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Mayor Orders Mandatory Evacuation of New Orleans

Posted by Soulskill on from the everybody-out dept.

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.

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  1. Fuck it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Let the niggers drown.

    1. Re:Fuck it by Profane+MuthaFucka · · Score: -1, Troll

      Ah, you must be a Republican. How charming.

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    2. Re:Fuck it by PopeRatzo · · Score: 0, Troll

      Let the niggers drown.

      Thank you, Senator McCain.

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    3. Re:Fuck it by darkpixel2k · · Score: 0, Troll

      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.

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  2. News for nerds huh? by keeboo · · Score: 0, Troll

    Because a tree falling in your house is so nerdy.

  3. Re:I'M NOT LEAVING NEW ORLEANS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Wait until that KKK lady, Palin, get to you. She tortured and fired her brother-in-law for much less, think about what she can do with a nigro-son-of-satan...

  4. The Second Flush by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    That finally pushes the turd out of the toilet.

  5. God really really really wants this turd flushed by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Seriously.

    Take a fuckin' hint.

  6. Re:what the hell? by WhatAmIDoingHere · · Score: 0, Troll

    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.'

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  7. Re:what the hell? by PopeRatzo · · Score: 0, Troll

    This is the reason they have a VP, or rather one of the few uses that has been found for a VP.

    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.

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  8. Re:what the hell? by joocemann · · Score: 0, Troll

    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.

  9. I can't wait! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    There are about to be a bunch of dead niggers floating around New Orleans. Not being satisfied with his Katrina effort, Jesus has sent a second hurricane to clean the niggers out of New Orleans. I can't wait to see all those dead niggers floating like rats on CNN.

  10. Re:what the hell? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Did 1,000 people die because of the soil in Seattle? Did the US tax payers spend 90,000,000,000.00 to rebuild Seattle? No, so do not compare New Orleans with Seattle. New Orleans is the armpit of America. After Gustav we should not rebuild, but I am sure Barack Hussein Obama will be there the day after the storm with a speech.

  11. Re:what the hell? by sphealey · · Score: 1, Troll

    > 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.

    sPh

  12. It's Going to Be OK! by N8F8 · · Score: -1, Troll

    I heard Obama blessed the levies with this aura or strength.

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