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2. New Orleans is largely not below sea level, it is near sea level. I live in the city and I do not live below sea level (my area in the old city did not flood, much like the original city did not long before levee systems)
3. The levees only failed in the drainage canals (and the Industrial Canal) because the Corps used crappy I walls with cheap, shallow pilings. Katrina was a Cat 3 storm with a larger surge...had the canal walls not been I walls...most of the city would have been ok.
4. New Orleans has withstood hurricanes for near 300 years. People did not evacuate.
Would the lessons of Katrina be to not build a city in a below sea level bowl?
The city was not built below sea level. After they put up a sea wall the Mississippi river was still depositing silt, but it deposited it outside the sea wall. Each year the surrounding area was getting higher, from silt deposits, while the city remained at the level, or elevation, that it was when the sea wall was erected.
Give stats, give facts, give numbers.....who are you to decide what "More of these" consists of...."a lot of them"? HOW MANY????????????????????
WHO helped you count them????
Give some links to factual numbers.
The obvious racism in this thread is sickening.
last time i saw cars rushed on canal street by a gang-- i did not stay around to count them. does seeing crime make me a racist????, how bout the fact that i am not white? a former resident does that count? hey man he just showed you the video, why you want stats? i knew people that were in the dome, they told some shameful stuff. jessie jackson was right to scold the people of new orleans, if the shoe fits wear it.
4) Not depending on the "government" to be there to fix your problems?
This is the most important lesson of all, the soft racism of low expectations and liberal Democrat's desire to create a nation of non-thinking, dependent-on-the-state-for-their-every-need constituents who will always look to Big Government to wipe their noses for them,
Theon Johnson was given $9,000 in housing aid by FEMA, but "he spent it all on booze, cigarettes, some clothes, and food—partying, mostly." So naturally, he waited around for the government to give him more. "I spent my money just the way I wanted, and I think [FEMA] should send me some more," he told the magazine. But that trough was closed to Johnson. His FEMA caseworkers offered to buy him a free ticket home to New Orleans, but he turned it down, instead choosing to wait until the Holiday Inn offered him a "buy out" deal, which he was hoping would be about $1,200.
A few months earlier, self-appointed "representatives of Hurricane Katrina evacuees" holed up in New York hotels demanded that the hotel’s management pay families $2,500 in return for leaving. What began as a public service had morphed into a shakedown that took various forms over the next few years.
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