Just Leave

[Professor S]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,197665,00.html

Lets see... New Orleans is already under the waterline and needs levies to keep from flooding, its half destroyed from a hurricane and they are vulnerable to even more disasters, and the city is sinking more than an inch a year in some places...

JUST LEAVE. GET OUT. RELOCATE. Even wild animals are smart enough to run to high ground, why can't we?

[Jonbo298]

People know that New Orleans is a giant bowl but they always insist on staying "Because its their hometown". Hey, stay. I don't care. Just don't bitch when the government doesn't save your ass because YOU decided to stay.

[Dyne]

Just like Mt. St. Helens, people stayed and died. Some people are just stubborn.

[KillerGremlin]

They have music and shrimp, who could leave that.

[Krypton]

Originally Posted by KillerGremlin

They have music and shrimp, who could leave that.

um, no one!

[Typhoid]

Originally Posted by Professor S

JUST LEAVE. GET OUT. RELOCATE. Even wild animals are smart enough to run to high ground, why can't we?

Because some people think they are better than nature.

[Professor S]

Originally Posted by Typhoid

Because some people think they are better than nature.

Thatis probably oone of the better summations I've read regarding New Orleans yet.

[GameMaster]

I'm with Jonbo. Accept the consequences that come with your choice.

[Typhoid]

Originally Posted by Professor S

Thatis probably oone of the better summations I've read regarding New Orleans yet.

I was due.

[KillerGremlin]

Not that I don't agree, but just for fun...

what if you were born there, have deeply rooted family, and have lived there your entire life.


if it keeps on raining the levees gonna breakkkkkk....

[Canyarion]

Read the thread title and thought you wanted somebody of us to leave the forums.

[manasecret]

Originally Posted by KillerGremlin

what if you were born there, have deeply rooted family, and have lived there your entire life.

That's it right there. Not to mention, New Orleans isn't just some other generic city, especially to those that live here. It's not like you can just pack up your stuff and move and expect to find New Orleans in some other city. This isn't just another Best Buy city. It's got history. It's like asking to give up Boston, or D.C., or Paris, or Rome. It's an easy answer to say, to tell everyone, "just get up and leave." But I think we all know leaving the things we love is tough to do.

People have left, though. If another Katrina comes through, more will. The broken levees have only been shored up; there's a good chance a hurricane of much less power than Katrina could knock them out again.

I live in New Orleans. I'm not from here, and as soon as I graduate I'm abandoning the city -- and all I can ride on is hope that the next Katrina doesn't come through before I graduate. I feel selfish, but it was never in my plan to stay in New Orleans after I graduated.

[Stonecutter]

Originally Posted by Professor S

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,197665,00.html

Lets see... New Orleans is already under the waterline and needs levies to keep from flooding, its half destroyed from a hurricane and they are vulnerable to even more disasters, and the city is sinking more than an inch a year in some places...

JUST LEAVE. GET OUT. RELOCATE. Even wild animals are smart enough to run to high ground, why can't we?

What pisses me off the most about this, is the way people have treated the very, very few public figures that have suggested that maybe it's not such a good idea to rebuild the city. I had and continue to hold very little sympathy for a good percentage of the residents. Obviously there were many, many people who were just too poor to pack up and move somewhere else, but there were thousands who could have and didn't.

Either way, I don't much like the idea of any donated funds going to rebuild the city in its present location. Unless someone wants to pay to truck in several millon tons of topsoil to raise the city above sea level, it shouldn't be rebuilt where it is, and had damn well not be the american taxpayer who has to pay to bring in the dirt.

[Jonbo298]

Some people don't have the money to but its been awhile and I hope some who don't want to stay have left. Some people have no choice. It sucks, I realize that. My comments may have been harsh but its how I see it.

[KillerGremlin]

Originally Posted by Stonecutter

What pisses me off the most about this, is the way people have treated the very, very few public figures that have suggested that maybe it's not such a good idea to rebuild the city. I had and continue to hold very little sympathy for a good percentage of the residents. Obviously there were many, many people who were just too poor to pack up and move somewhere else, but there were thousands who could have and didn't.

Either way, I don't much like the idea of any donated funds going to rebuild the city in its present location. Unless someone wants to pay to truck in several millon tons of topsoil to raise the city above sea level, it shouldn't be rebuilt where it is, and had damn well not be the american taxpayer who has to pay to bring in the dirt.

You're pissed. My church has taken like 200,000 in collection money that my family and other families have donated, and sent it to rebuild a church of all things (i'm not anti-religion, but organized religion is bs, and you dont need a church or a guy who rapes 5 year old boys to pray). They're rebuilding the church on the same location that got knocked down, which prompted me to ask, "why not donate that to poor children or something."

history will repeat itself.


Obviously rebuilding that city there is more important than poor kids in africa tho.


The homeless, hospital-less and hungry had my sympathy, but at least there's a new church to thank god for his divine destruction of the city in.