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Old 08-26-2013, 03:28 PM
 
Location: Atlanta Metro Area (OTP North)
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Can't say I agree there. Many cities are prone to disasters, it's not like New Orleans floods like that every season.
My sentiments exactly. I'm not sure how long people will antiquate New Orleans to devastating hurricanes as if Katrina happens often, but I cannot wait until the day when it stops...

Though i can understand the immediate hesitancy of some, especially businesses, I guess I just wish people would think about it. A huuuuge hurricane came through, THEN the levees, which were already inadequate, were blown up, thus flooding the city. Does that happen every year or even once a decade? Nope. Did it happen prior to Katrina every year or even once every 10? Nope.

...so why are we still talking about hurricanes in New Orleans more than we talk about earthquakes in California
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Old 08-26-2013, 03:37 PM
 
Location: Michoud Area/ New Orleans
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My sentiments exactly. I'm not sure how long people will antiquate New Orleans to devastating hurricanes as if Katrina happens often, but I cannot wait until the day when it stops...

Though i can understand the immediate hesitancy of some, especially businesses, I guess I just wish people would think about it. A huuuuge hurricane came through, THEN the levees, which were already inadequate, were blown up, thus flooding the city. Does that happen every year or even once a decade? Nope. Did it happen prior to Katrina every year or even once every 10? Nope.

...so why are we still talking about hurricanes in New Orleans more than we talk about earthquakes in California
My sentiments exactly chilly gentilly
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Old 08-26-2013, 08:58 PM
 
Location: SW Missouri
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You lived there during the crack epidemic and when New Orleans was the murder capital. I don't blame you but it's not that way anymore.
I remember the news report about the woman who was murdered in the parking lot for her groceries. I mean, what if you don't LIKE the kind of food that she eats? Wouldn't it be smarter to murder her, steal her money and THEN GO GROCERY SHOPPING?

Some people have no common sense at all.

Anyway. I hope you're right, because it was a sewer back then.

20yrsinBranson
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Old 08-26-2013, 09:19 PM
 
Location: Louisiana to Houston to Denver to NOVA
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My sentiments exactly. I'm not sure how long people will antiquate New Orleans to devastating hurricanes as if Katrina happens often, but I cannot wait until the day when it stops...

Though i can understand the immediate hesitancy of some, especially businesses, I guess I just wish people would think about it. A huuuuge hurricane came through, THEN the levees, which were already inadequate, were blown up, thus flooding the city. Does that happen every year or even once a decade? Nope. Did it happen prior to Katrina every year or even once every 10? Nope.

...so why are we still talking about hurricanes in New Orleans more than we talk about earthquakes in California
Because people don't care what's going on outside of there metro area. Katrina wasn't even a 5 when it made landfall. It was a 4 and quickly went down to a 3.
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Old 08-26-2013, 09:20 PM
 
Location: Louisiana to Houston to Denver to NOVA
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I remember the news report about the woman who was murdered in the parking lot for her groceries. I mean, what if you don't LIKE the kind of food that she eats? Wouldn't it be smarter to murder her, steal her money and THEN GO GROCERY SHOPPING?

Some people have no common sense at all.

Anyway. I hope you're right, because it was a sewer back then.

20yrsinBranson
Things like that happen in Baton Rouge but typically most crimes are concentrated in a bad area. That's the reason I carry a FNH FNS .40.
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Old 03-19-2014, 12:56 PM
 
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I don't see the increased population stopping anytime soon. The time is now for new orleans to capitalize on the influx of people to the city and area...businesses will see that people will actually want to be here and will want to relocate their headquarters here....we can only go up from here....the sky really is the limit now
I agree, I think NOLA will continue to see a steady population growth this decade hopefully a more rapid one next decade. I sure hope you are right that companies will want locate there headquarters here, man that would be HUGE. I was reading where Memphis was able to attract 3 fortune 500 companies in one year, I believe it was 2006. They now have 4 fortune 500 companies headquartered there. I wonder how they were able to pull that off?
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Old 03-19-2014, 03:53 PM
 
Location: New Orleans
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Levees failed, were not blown up.
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Old 03-20-2014, 10:46 AM
 
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I lived in New Orleans many years, in the good times and the bad times. The problem w/ it ever being a major city is it's just a terrible place to do business. There are so many obstructions. Then, having the the city 8 feet UNDER sea level doesn't exactly encourage development. If the pumps fail, as they have in the past, there will be big trouble.

New Orleans is a unique place w/ fantastic food and music. But it has problems and has always had problems. You pay a price to live there. What was fun in my 20's thru 40's is just not worth it in my 60's. But we visit now and then and have a great time.
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Old 03-20-2014, 01:38 PM
 
Location: Metairie, LA
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I lived in New Orleans many years, in the good times and the bad times. The problem w/ it ever being a major city is it's just a terrible place to do business. There are so many obstructions. Then, having the the city 8 feet UNDER sea level doesn't exactly encourage development. If the pumps fail, as they have in the past, there will be big trouble.

New Orleans is a unique place w/ fantastic food and music. But it has problems and has always had problems. You pay a price to live there. What was fun in my 20's thru 40's is just not worth it in my 60's. But we visit now and then and have a great time.
Well, I guess all of our thriving local businesses didn't get that memo.

The city is not 8ft below sea level. Fact check yourself.

See:Study bust myth that New Orleans is sunken city | NOLA.com

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Old 03-23-2014, 07:02 PM
 
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I disagree. New York, Miami and San Fransisco are all equally vulnerable to significant natural disasters. Still, they are home to quite a few Fortune 500s. There is no reason we can't have the same here.
Yeah, but they aint underwater, the water has somewhere to drain and their pumps work. Cheap prices will attract people and speculative businesses, NOLA will reach an economic equillibrium.
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