Author Topic: Pics of Katrina devestation (Read 833 times)

LePaul · « **on:** August 31, 2005, 04:27:07 PM »

Here...

Link

Just amazing.

This rebuild is going to be huge

Sandman · « **Reply #1 on:** August 31, 2005, 05:59:57 PM »

You have to wonder... why rebuild? The levees will fail again. Bet on it.

Time to get the hell above sea level. To do anything else is just foolish.

indy007 · « **Reply #2 on:** August 31, 2005, 06:10:06 PM »

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Originally posted by Sandman
You have to wonder... why rebuild? The levees will fail again. Bet on it.

Time to get the hell above sea level. To do anything else is just foolish.

I was wondering myself if it would more economically viable to quite literally start over elsewhere. They're already saying that the entire utilities grid will need to be replaced.

Assuming "they" are right and the city is 80%+ demolished and will have to be rebuilt.. Anybody know a good reason other than the historical signifigance?

With cars there's a limit where you simply total it out and get a new one.

Nilsen · « **Reply #3 on:** August 31, 2005, 06:13:09 PM »

The smart thing to do would be to build on higher ground but people want to move back. You see it all over. People rebulild in areas with lots of tornadoes, flooding, earthquakes and volcanoes. Some will move but most will rebuild.

Feelings rule over common sense... I may have done it myself in a similar situation.

If i ran an insurance company i would set enormus premiums in dangerous areas but maybe they do and it doesnt work... i dunno.

Mustaine · « **Reply #4 on:** August 31, 2005, 06:13:32 PM »

thats my thought, the city's water / sewage supply is almost damager i heard (if water rises a bit it will contaminate the whole works).

something i have not heard mentioned yet...

what about all the aligators and water moccisans down in tha bayou?

you couldnt pay me to get in that water for the next few months. God knows what creepy crawlies will be about in the mess.

Nilsen · « **Reply #5 on:** August 31, 2005, 06:16:44 PM »

They have even seen sharks swimming around in the streets of New Orleans

Gunthr · « **Reply #6 on:** August 31, 2005, 06:20:04 PM »

I guess it will depend on just how much damage there is. If there is a certain critical amount of damage it becomes a numbers game and financial gamble decided by money backers whether or not to try to rebuild there. This really sucks big time.

DREDIOCK · « **Reply #7 on:** August 31, 2005, 06:23:51 PM »

Better idea.
Since you know they will rebuild in the area anyway reguardless of logic against it.

Rebuild it and create a north american Venice only more modern. With elevated roads and walkways

Meatwad · « **Reply #8 on:** August 31, 2005, 08:36:45 PM »

I would think since so many lost their homes and other things, would they even go back or live somewhere else?

Mustaine · « **Reply #9 on:** August 31, 2005, 09:12:49 PM »

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Originally posted by Meatwad
I would think since so many lost their homes and other things, would they even go back or live somewhere else?

well i can't say for others but for me...

well, i'd have lost everything, and be homeless, living on the "streets"

i wonder if i'd have the will to go somewhere "else" let alone i'd have no resources.

if the national average is correct that americans carry $12,000 in credit card debt (im a bit above) losing your house, job, and everything else, there is nothing you could do. there is no insurance that covers that and magically wipes out debt. lets say you just bought a house too. add $200,000 in debt now you have to cover with no job, nowhere to live, no money.

it is rather scary.

sling322 · « **Reply #10 on:** August 31, 2005, 10:17:40 PM »

Thats what insurance is for. I am sure that any of these people that had house payments were paying home owners insurance as well. Of course then we all take it in the shorts when the insurance companies jack up the rates.

Vulcan · « **Reply #11 on:** August 31, 2005, 10:29:26 PM »

Incredible pictures, all those homes, all those keepsakes...

Nilsen do a search on sharks, new orleans, aquarium

FiLtH · « **Reply #12 on:** August 31, 2005, 10:52:51 PM »

They were lucky for 40+ years. Who knows..they rebuild and the next big one is only 5 yrs down the road.

Gunslinger · « **Reply #13 on:** August 31, 2005, 10:59:11 PM »

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Originally posted by Sandman
You have to wonder... why rebuild? The levees will fail again. Bet on it.

Time to get the hell above sea level. To do anything else is just foolish.

I say why not? Isn't this a cycle of nature? Think about it. Somone's gotta replace all those homes...that means jobs. Somone has to clean up....that means jobs. Somone's got to re-run all the wires...that means jobs. I know we are ALL footing the bill via insurance premiums but all those people working and buying stuff is a way to look optomistic about it at least.

IIRC this was on the news and these guys are all inmates/prisoners.

Can you imagine if you got arrested right before this hit and you were in jail awaiting trial.....there's no courts, when are you gonna get your trial???????

anyways if I was the govoner I'd parden all those with less than a year on their sentence and petty crimes and such on probationary terms. Heck put them to work cleaning up.

J_A_B · « **Reply #14 on:** September 01, 2005, 12:52:18 AM »

Even if they decided not to rebuild, they still have to clean up the site. You can't just abandon a large city without experiencing a massive environmental impact. The cleanup alone is going to cost a signifigant sum of money. In addition, the major structures won't be a total loss. Lots of houses and such are destroyed, but those are "fairly cheap" to replace anyway. Think of how many houses you can build and furnish for the cost of rebuilding just one of their downtown skyscrapers at a new location.

Much of New Orleans was old and run-down. The city will wind up better off than it was before.

J_A_B